News from September 2022
By State Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: The following is the joint statement released by the Secretary of State of the United States and the Foreign Ministers of the Governments of the Republic of Korea and Japan.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement agreement with chemical import and distribution company Transchem Inc. for violations of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The company has agreed to pay a $147,617 civil penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Dondre Charles Jackson, age 29, of Moses Lake, Washington, pled guilty to fraudulently obtaining $49,999 in COVID-19 relief funds. This case is part of the Eastern Washington...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: A three-time convicted felon who held himself out as a pastor, mortician, restaurateur, and tax preparer has admitted lying to receive COVID-19 small business assistance.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) hereby gives notice to the public of its intent to provide financial assistance to the State of Missouri, local governments in the state, and private nonprofit organizations as a result of damage caused by July 2022 storms and flooding.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A Winterville, Georgia, resident convicted by a federal jury earlier this year of attempted online child enticement was sentenced to serve ten years in prison for his crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow of the District of Puerto Rico today urged the public to report suspected fraud schemes related to disaster relief operations and federal funding for victims of Hurricane Fiona by calling National Center for Disaster Fraud (NCDF) hotline (1-866-720-5721) or the NCDF's on-line portal for complaints at.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Sept. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Sept. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senate Finance Committee Republicans, led by Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), sent a letter to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig requesting detailed plans for how the agency will spend the massive $80 billion injection of mandatory funding recently...
By State Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
There was activity on four bills related to the Foreign Affairs Committee on Sept. 22.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2022 – Last week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the Biden-Harris Administration through the U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing up to $2.8 billion in 70 selected projects under the first pool of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities funding opportunity.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Sept. 27.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: Washington D.C. - Today, Rep. Jamie Raskin, Chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee’s Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, and Sen. Brian Schatz introduced a resolution recognizing Banned Books Week and condemning the profound attacks on books and freedom of expression in the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRYAN WILSON, 40, of Madison, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 24 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for tampering with fentanyl vials at the company where he was employed. Judge Shea also ordered Wilson to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: Five More Defendants Indicted in $4.7 Million Meth, Heroin Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, David A. Hubbert, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Charles P. Rettig, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS"), announced that U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Springfield, Illinois, man, Carlos Wright, 32, of the 1800 block of 11th Street, was sentenced on Sept. 21, 2022, to concurrent terms of 42 months’ imprisonment for possession of a firearm by a felon and 24 months’ imprisonment for wire fraud and false statements on loan applications, to be followed by concurrent three-year terms of supervised release. Additionally, Wright must pay restitution in the amount of $46,666.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: “Big Homie" Randy Torres Oversaw Hundreds of Crips Members in the Eastern United States and, with Derrick Richardson, Participated in Murder of Nestor Suazo.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following statement on the House Floor today during consideration of H.R. 8542, the Mental Health Justice Act of 2022...
