News from October 2022
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today sent the following letter to Boston University...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: MOBILE, AL - United States Attorney Sean P. Costello announced today that Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Vicki Davis will lead the efforts of his Office in connection with the Justice Department’s nationwide Election Day Program for the upcoming November 8, 2022, general election. AUSA Davis...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 14 unsealed Indictments charging 16 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU - The United States Attorney's Office announced that Joseph M. Lopez, age 40, of Oak Ridge, Missouri, was sentenced to serve 112 months in federal prison for the offense of Felon in Possession of a Firearm. Lopez appeared for his sentencing hearing Monday before United States District Judge Stephen R. Clark at the federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau, Missouri.
By State Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Ottawa and Montreal, Canada on October 27 and 28. This visit will strengthen our vital partnership with Canada to address shared goals, including providing continued support for Ukraine, addressing the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, deepening our cooperation ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, FEMA announced that it has approved the state of Florida's request for direct temporary housing in Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto and Lee counties, providing travel trailers and larger manufactured housing units to help eligible Hurricane Ian survivors get a safe roof over their head.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: LENEXA, KAN. (OCT. 26, 2022) – Today, the Biden-Harris administration announced the fiscal year 2022 recipients of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean School Bus Program rebate competition, awarding nearly $6.6 million from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to six school ...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: A Maine doctor was arrested today in Kennebunk on criminal charges related to her alleged illegal distribution of opioids and other controlled substances.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Kyle G. Daniel, 36, of Ball Ground, Georgia, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, for violating of the Lacey Act. United States District Judge John Gerrard sentenced Daniel to 2 years’ probation for unlawful transportation of wildlife in interstate commerce. Daniel was ordered to pay a fine in the amount of $5,000 and restitution in the amount of $4,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Great Barrington man has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Springfield in connection with allegedly receiving and possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Flushing, NY woman was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for making bribe payments to protect her illicit massage parlors in Cary and Wilmington from law enforcement scrutiny in 2020 and 2021. On March 31, 2022, Xiang Yue Jin pled guilty to the charge. She was also fined $50,000 and ordered to forfeit $90,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Patrick Tafoya was sentenced on Sept. 13 to six years and six months in prison in prison. Tafoya, 61, of Española, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Santa Clara, pleaded guilty on Jan. 28 to assault with intent to commit murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Robert Duane Wicke, 60, from Lansing, Michigan was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to coerce and entice children to engage in sex acts. He was also sentenced to 20 years’ custody on each of three counts of distributing child pornography videos and 20 years’ custody for possessing a collection of child pornography. The sentences for the child pornography offenses will be served concurrently with the life sentence.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) loan application may be a source of additional help for Puerto Rico residents who applied for FEMA assistance after Hurricane Fiona.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Kimberly Acevedo, 52, of West Sacramento, pleaded guilty today to one count of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 61-year-old man residing in Houston has been ordered to federal prison following multiple child pornography convictions, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Oct. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Trayton Jay Jackson, 25 of Fremont, Nebraska was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. United States District Court Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Jackson to 120 months’ imprisonment. After completing his term of imprisonment, Jackson will be required to serve a five-year term of supervised release as there is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2022
News Release: Denver - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Edward Baker Harrington, age 59, of Idaho Springs, was arrested after being indicted by a federal grand jury for wire fraud and money laundering.
