News from October 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Michael P. Fish, age 27, of Albany, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: CANTERBURY, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDRES VASQUEZ, 35, of Canterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. Circuit Judge Sarah A.L. Merriam in Bridgeport to nine months of imprisonment, followed by 18 months of supervised release, for illegally possessing a machinegun and other firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Leonard C. Woodrum, Jr., 57, of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on Sept. 21, 2022, in federal court in Lincoln. United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Woodrum, Jr. to 240 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: MR PATEL: Hey everybody, good afternoon, and thanks so much for joining us today for this press call on Secretary Blinken’s travel to Canada, specifically Ottawa and Montreal. This call is on the record but embargoed until the call’s conclusion.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Request for Information (RFI): Energy Improvements in Rural or Remote Areas grant opened on Oct. 27.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) and Subcommittee on National Security Ranking Member Glenn Grothman (R-Wis.) are raising concerns over the Biden Administration’s unprecedented and deliberate attempt to obstruct the Special Inspector General for...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Russell announced that Timothy S. Daly, 49, of Ponca, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, by Judge John M. Gerrard for interstate travel with intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor. Daly was sentenced to 7 years in prison, 5 years of supervised release, and a $100 special assessment. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - The former director of a local Islamic center pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to embezzling funds from the mosque, defrauding public housing, and filing for fraudulent COVID assistance funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A former resident of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced on a charge of violating federal narcotics trafficking laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights Uzra Zeya will travel to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from October 26-28, 2022. Her trip underscores the United States’ strategic commitment to fighting corruption and advancing human rights as foundational components of U.S. foreign policy, including enforcing labor rights and resolving statelessness.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Daniel Kaye has been arraigned on charges of access device fraud and money laundering conspiracy. Kaye’s charges arise from his alleged operation of The Real Deal, a Dark Web market that sold, among other things, hacking tools and stolen login credentials, and his laundering of funds he received from that market.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the criminal investigative agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), conducted a large-scale enforcement action in Guatemala that led to the execution of 20 arrest warrants and 54 search warrants in Guatemala City, Oct. 24-25. Huehuetenango, ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) launched a new online tool to help farmers and ranchers better navigate the farm loan application process. This uniform application process will help to ensure all farm loan applicants receive equal support and have a consistent customer experience with USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) regardless of their individual circumstances.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Defendant Fought Police Officers in Multiple Confrontations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: A Rowlett man was sentenced Thursday to 60 years in federal prison for filming himself molesting a 7-year-old child, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA.- An inmate at Allegheny County Jail has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge related to his assault of a corrections officer while in federal custody, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Rudy Tafoya, 54, of West Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department has announced 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, including the Northern District of Texas.
