News from September 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - James Wolfgramm, aka Semisi Niu, aka James Vaka Niu, 43, of Spanish Fork, and two of his businesses, Bitex LLC (Bitex), and Ohana Capital Financial, Inc. (OCF), have been charged by a federal grand jury in the District of Utah with seven felony counts in connection with multiple financial...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Sept. 26.
By State Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: The United States and 37 other countries invoked the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Moscow Mechanism on July 28 to examine the Russia’s adherence to its OSCE Human Dimension commitments on human rights and fundamental freedoms. In the report released today in Vienna, the ...

By US DOT Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Environment and Public Works Committee on Sept. 22.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
There was activity on five bills related to the Ways and Means Committee on Sept. 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Sept. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced today nearly $22 million in upcoming grant awards to address and prevent sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on college campuses, provide services to youth victims and children exposed to such violence and engage men and boys as allies.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury has charged a man with illegally possessing a loaded handgun, cocaine, and fentanyl on a Chicago Transit Authority train.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - Rayquan Sturgis, 23, of Detroit, MI, pled guilty today to a spree of three violent carjackings he committed in June and July 2020. Sturgis also pled guilty to additional charges of using and discharging a firearm during crimes of violence. Sturgis faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison with a maximum possible sentence of life in prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Texas was sentenced in federal court for his role in defrauding federally-funded meal programs, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

By USDA Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 23, 2022 USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) today awarded the Rhode Island Department of Health a $80,826 grant as part of the Farmers Market Nutrition Program Benefit Delivery Modernization Grants. This investment will help improve equitable access to locally grown fruits and vegetables for participants of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly known as WIC.

By State Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom on the occasion of the Partners in the Blue Pacific Foreign Ministers Meeting Sept. 22, 2022.

By DOE Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
Release: Funding Will Support Projects That Reduce Carbon Emissions Attributed to Energy Use and Cooling of Data Centers

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Marvin Smith, 37, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 115 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to two counts of attempted interference with commerce by robbery and two counts of bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Pan African Interchange LLC and Stanley Damas have agreed to pay $21,583.31 to resolve False Claims Act allegations arising from their false certifications that Pan African Interchange LLC would not receive more than one Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan prior to Dec. 31, 2020, announced U.S. Attorney Juan Antonio Gonzalez.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
“STATEMENTS ON INTRODUCED BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS” was published on pages S4823-S4824 of the Congressional Record on Sept. 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A federal inmate was sentenced today to 30 months for attempting to escape from the Federal Correctional Institution in Butner, North Carolina (“FCI Butner").

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: ANCHORAGE - An Anchorage man was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to 20 years in prison followed by 20 years of supervised release for sex trafficking a minor and production and possession of child pornography. He was also ordered to pay $23,070 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jasper E. Shook, of Petersburg, West Virginia, has admitted to child pornography charges, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAYMOND JURADO, 36, of Manchester, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl.