News published on Federal Newswire in October 2022

News from October 2022


The US Homeland Security Department published a one page notice on Oct. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas P. Barber today sentenced Shauntavus Berklin (34, Fort Myers) to 15 years in federal prison for possessing firearms as a convicted felon and distributing fentanyl. The court also ordered Berklin to forfeit the firearms he illegally had possessed. Berklin had pleaded guilty to the charges, which were contained in two indictments, on July 14, 2022.


York County Woman Sentenced To Five Years In Prison For Trafficking Methamphetamine

News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Nicole Botterbusch, age 32, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer P. Wilson to 60 months in prison for trafficking methamphetamine.


The US Homeland Security Department published a one page notice on Oct. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Biden-Harris Administration Announces $150 Million To Improve Nuclear Research and Development Infrastructure at Idaho National Laboratory

Release: Investments from President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act Will Support and Advance Next-Generation Nuclear Fuels and Reactor Technologies Critical to Achieving America’s Climate Goals


News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Erotida Natasha Harden Ortiz guilty of one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and six counts of aiding in fraudulent and false statements related to IRS returns. The jury also found Aida...


The US Homeland Security Department published a one page notice on Oct. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Democrats Authorize the IRS to Bleed Americans Dry with No Accountability.


News Release: Seattle - Three significant drug trafficking groups responsible for trafficking more than 1,000 pounds of methamphetamine and hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills are facing federal charges tonight, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Two indictments charging a total of eleven defendants were unsealed...


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Billings, Mo., man who belonged to the Aryan Brotherhood was sentenced in federal court today for methamphetamine trafficking.


Salem Man Sentenced to Four Years in Prison for Decade-Long Mortgage Fraud Scheme

News Release: BOSTON - A Salem, Mass. real estate developer was sentenced to four years in prison today in connection with a decade-long mortgage fraud scheme involving at least two dozen loan transactions, totaling $6.5 million, that resulted in more than $3.8 million in losses to lenders.


U.S. Attorney honored with Michael T. Shelby Award

News Release: HOUSTON - The Southern District of Texas Chapter of the Federal Bar Association has awarded U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery the Michael Taylor Shelby Award for Professionalism in Federal Service.


U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit Convenes Domestic Violence Awareness Month Event

News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit convened with over 50 representatives from victim advocacy groups, domestic violence organizations, tribal communities, and law enforcement agencies throughout Idaho to commemorate Domestic Violence Awareness Month yesterday. U.S. Attorney Hurwit and other federal prosecutors...



Pittsburgh Felon Sentenced to 3 Years in Prison for Illegally Possessing a Loaded Revolver

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to 37 months’ imprisonment on his conviction for being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Meeks, McCaul, Menendez, Risch Statement Observing the One-Year Anniversary of the Coup in Sudan

News Release: Washington, DC - Representatives Gregory W. Meeks (D-N.Y.) and Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the below statement in observance of the one-year anniversary of the coup in Sudan...


News Release: A. Smith: GOP Will Dismantle Dems’ IRS Scheme, Hold Government Accountable.



News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 26, 2022 Representatives from 32 agribusiness and farm organizations will join Deputy Agriculture Secretary Dr. Jewel Bronaugh for an agribusiness trade mission to Nairobi, Kenya, and Zanzibar, Tanzania, Oct. 31 - Nov. 4.


Uniontown Man Sentenced to Prison for Murder-for-Hire Plot

News Release: AKRON - Scott Allen Renninger, 53, of Uniontown, Ohio, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John R. Adams to six years in prison and was ordered to pay $17,520 in restitution after he pleaded guilty to attempting to arrange a murder-for-hire plot.