News from October 2022
By Bob Pepalis | Oct 5, 2022
The most extensive audit of Chinese companies listed on the U.S. stock exchange has begun by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 29, 2022, Angel Antonio Anchondo, age 20, an inmate at the Low Security Correctional Institution, Allenwood (LSCI Allenwood), in White Deer, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by United States Magistrate Judge William I. Arbuckle for possessing a cellphone in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Marchese, age 30, of Swoyersville, Luzerne County, was sentenced on Oct. 3, 2022, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to five years’ imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy to distribute more than fifty grams of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on Oct. 6.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Oct. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Brian James Bell, age 22 of Mount Vernon, Washington, was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, to 66 months in prison following his plea to a charge of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Kevin M. Gregory has pleaded guilty to conspiring with ex-wife and former Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency counselor Karen C. Lyke to forge educational records and to create fake students with non-existent disabilities and illnesses, as part of their sophisticated, multi-year scheme to steal more than $1.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that as part of its continuing efforts to protect older adults and to bring perpetrators of fraud schemes to justice, it is expanding its Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, adding 14 additional U.S. Attorney’s Offices. Since 2019, current Strike Force members ...
By State Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
Release: Counselor of the Department Derek Chollet will travel to London and Belfast, United Kingdom, from October 5-11. In London, he will meet with United Kingdom government officials to discuss continued cooperation on a range of security and defense priorities, including Russia’s war on Ukraine, and the Indo-Pacific.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: A Canadian man was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $21,500,000 today for his role in NetWalker ransomware attacks. The Court will order restitution at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: A Vinita man was sentenced in federal court for attempting to sexually entice an individual he believed to be a 14-year-old boy, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron announced today that as part of the Office’s continuing efforts to protect older adults and to bring perpetrators of fraud schemes to justice, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office is joining the Justice Department’s Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, as one of 14 additional U.S. Attorney’s Offices.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: DETROIT, MI - The Senate has passed a bipartisan bill authored by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to increase transparency around foreign lobbying, shine a light on efforts by foreign adversaries to influence our public policy, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Today, U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Stewart announced that Brandon Thomas Hart, 33, from Smiths Station, Alabama, was sentenced to 38 years in prison for sexually exploiting two children.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Five current or former IRS employees have been charged with schemes to defraud the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) Program, federal stimulus programs authorized as part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Jonathan Kennedy, 41, of St. Albans, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Information for Law Enforcement Training, Community Outreach, Asset Forfeiture and Technical Assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Billy Joe Gann, Jr., 32, of Sebring, has been sentenced to 420 months in federal prison for producing and distributing child pornography.
By Bob Pepalis | Oct 5, 2022
Six nonprofit organizations were awarded around $2 million in grants from the U.S. Department of Labor to support their efforts to educate low-wage women about their rights at work and encourage them to take advantage of them.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Richland, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Eric Christian, age 34, of Kennewick, Washington, was sentenced by Chief District Judge Stanley A. Bastian to serve 46-months in federal prison for conspiring with inmates...
