News published on Federal Newswire in October 2022

News from October 2022


News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) sent a letter to Secretary John Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, expressing concern over his office’s lack of transparency...


Former hacker sentenced for stealing computer power to mine cryptocurrency and stealing the personal information of more than 100 million people

News Release: Hacked clients of Amazon Web Services including Capital One, Michigan State, and more than two dozen other entities and businesses.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - The Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA ) will evaluate a Biennial Radiological Emergency Preparedness Exercise at the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station. The exercise will occur during the week of Oct. 17, 2022 to assess the ability of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to respond to an emergency at the nuclear facility.


The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Oct. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado Takes Part in Justice Department’s Wide-Ranging Efforts to Protect Older Adults

News Release: DENVER - The Justice Department announced today the results of its efforts over the past year to protect older adults from fraud and exploitation. During the past year, the Department and its law enforcement partners tackled matters that ranged from mass-marketing scams that impacted thousands of victims...



News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kaymeisha Keyes, 30, most recently of Tracy, was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a 16-count indictment on Aug. 11, 2022, charging her with wire fraud, mail fraud, access device fraud, and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.


New notice from Land Management Bureau to be published on Oct. 6

There is one release scheduled to be published on Oct. 6.


Colorado Man Charged with Participation in Vermont Kidnapping and Murder

News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that today, Jerry Banks, 35, of Fort Garland, Colorado was charged with a murder-for-hire conspiracy and the kidnapping of Gregory Davis, a resident of Danville, Vermont, on January 6, 2018, resulting in Davis’s death. Banks was added as a defendant to the murder-for-hire conspiracy case already pending against Serhat Gumrukcu, 39, of Los Angeles, California, and Berk Eratay, 36, of Las Vegas, Nevada.



News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Box Elder man suspected of strangling and assaulting a woman on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation admitted today to domestic assault by habitual offender, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.


News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman held a trilateral call today with Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Mori Takeo and Republic of Korea (ROK) First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyundong following the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) ...



Rapid City Man Sentenced for Escape

News Release: SIOUX FALLS - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced today that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Escape from Custody was sentenced on Sept. 27, 2022, by 8thCircuit Judge Jonathan A. Kobes, sitting in U.S. District Court.


Illinois Man Convicted of Using U.S. Postal Service for MDMA Distribution

News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A federal jury convicted Delon Echols, 31, of Belleville, Illinois, Sept. 29 for sending MDMA through the mail with the intent to later distribute it. MDMA is also known as Ecstasy.


SDTX takes part in wide-ranging efforts to protect older adults

News Release: HOUSTON - The Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the results of its efforts over the past year to protect older adults from fraud and exploitation.


News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on the appointment of Nicholas J. Rasmussen to serve as the Department of Homeland Security’s Counterterrorism Coordinator...


Sonic franchise operator fined nearly $42K after federal investigation finds teens allowed to work beyond legal limits at three Wichita-area locations

News Release: NEWTON, KS - For many teens, working at a fast-food restaurant is a first job. For 50 teens - ages 14 and 15 - working at three Sonic drive-in locations near Wichita - that meant being employed in excess of the number of hours allowed by child labor laws and during nighttime hours not permitted by law, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation has found.


US Department of Labor awards $2M grant to help improve labor conditions, prevent forced, child labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry

News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of a $2 million cooperative agreement to support the improvement of labor conditions and prevent forced labor and child labor in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry.


News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken held separate calls on October 3 with Republic of Korea (ROK) Foreign Minister Park Jin and Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa immediately following the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) ...