News published on Federal Newswire in September 2022

News from September 2022


News Release: The United States is providing nearly $200 million in additional humanitarian assistance through international organizations and NGO partners in Mexico and Central America, bringing our total humanitarian assistance for the region since FY 2018 to more than $594 million.


Willowbrook Man Pleads Guilty to Bank Robbery Spree He Committed While on Supervised Release for Prior Bank Robbery Conviction

News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Willowbrook man pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for robbing three banks during a six-day crime spree while he was on supervised release for bank robbery convictions over a decade ago.


Convicted Felon Indicted for Possessing Machinegun Conversion Devices

News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Micah Moore, 31, of Indianapolis, was indicted by a federal grand jury for possession of a machinegun and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon.


Biden Admin Puts Partisanship Over Addressing Hunger

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Agriculture Committee Republican Leader Glenn “GT" Thompson (R-PA), Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Oversight and Reform Republican Leader James Comer (R-KY), and Agriculture Appropriations...


News Release: Today, on the margins of 77th meeting of the UN General Assembly, the White House announced the United States’ latest support to strengthen the international response to increased global food insecurity caused by climate change, the supply chain disruptions caused by the pandemic, and armed conflicts, including Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine.


News Release: TUCSON, Arizona - Jesus Rosario Favela-Astorga was sentenced in federal court today to 50 years in prison for the murder of United States Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry on Dec. 14, 2010. Favela-Astorga pleaded guilty to Agent Terry’s murder in April 2022. He is the seventh and final defendant to be convicted and sentenced in this case.


Former U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Inspector General Convicted of Falsifying Financial Disclosure Forms

News Release: A federal jury convicted a former Assistant Inspector General for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) yesterday for engaging in a scheme to conceal his financial indebtedness to a personal friend and government contractor to whom he steered tens of millions of dollars in government business.



District Man Pleads Guilty to Fentanyl Distribution, Which Resulted in Death of Consumer from Virginia

News Release: WASHINGTON - Andrew Cooper, 47, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to a federal charge of distribution of Fentanyl, admitting that he distributed the drug to customers from his residence in Northeast Washington. In the statement of facts in support of the plea agreement, Cooper admitted that he distributed Fentanyl to a female and her male friend, and that the male friend subsequently died from consuming the Fentanyl that Cooper provided.


News Release: Two defendants who stole guns from a man in an Arlington parking lot have been sentenced to a combined 18 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Anthony Joe was charged with assault of a spouse, intimate partner, or dating partner by strangling and assault...


News Release: EL PASO - An El Paso woman was arrested this week at the Paso Del Norte Port of Entry on criminal charges related to her alleged assault on a federal law enforcement officer.


Shiprock man sentenced to eight years in prison for assault

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Quincee Zohnnie was sentenced on Sept. 20 to eight years in prison. Zohnnie, 26, of Shiprock, New Mexico, pleaded guilty on Oct. 26, 2021, to using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence and possessing a firearm in furtherance of such crime, assault with a dangerous weapon, and retaliating against a victim in Indian Country.


News Release: MEMPHIS, TN-The FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia, graduated 235 law enforcement officers, including six from Tennessee.


FBI Safe Online Surfing Challenge Begins

News Release: FBI Safe Online Surfing Challenge Begins.



Secretary Blinken’s Meeting with Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister Mikati

News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met yesterday with Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati in New York City. The Secretary emphasized the need to hold a timely presidential election in Lebanon and urged that the Prime Minister and other ...


The US Homeland Security Department published a one page notice on Sept. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today issued the following statement on the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2022 ...


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