News from September 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two former soldiers stationed at Fort Hood have been ordered to federal prison for conspiring to transport undocumented aliens within the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Deshawn Lemonte Wheeler, a 38-year-old felon from Lauderhill, Florida, was sentenced to 120 months in prison for possessing a cache of firearms and ammunition, as well as sensitive identity and financial information belonging to others.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: Leadership team will guide implementation of historic semiconductor funding from CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 Today, the Biden-Harris Administration announced leadership for the newly-established CHIPS for America offices. These roles will be housed at the White House and the U.S. Department of Commerce. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 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 State Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thanks for bringing us together this morning, and thanks to each of my friends and other colleagues for being here today. It’s wonderful to see you all and it’s wonderful to see you in this particular setting.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
Release: APHIS’ Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) and the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection (CBP) will begin risk-based sampling (RBS) on banana and plantain shipments at U.S. ports of entry starting Sept. 26, 2022. The goal of RBS is to reduce inspections on entities importing ...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: House Ways and Means Committee and Energy and Commerce Committee leaders introduced legislation to honor the late Congresswoman Walorski by reauthorizing the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program. The bill increases funding for services that aid new parents and their children...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland and Ukrainian Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin met today in Washington to discuss efforts to hold accountable individuals responsible for war crimes and other atrocities in the wake of Russia’s unprovoked and unjust invasion of Ukraine. The leaders outlined areas ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: Defendant Admitted He Continued Selling Drugs To Jailmates While Awaiting Trial.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a three page notice on Sept. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Timothy Streitmatter, age 44, of Peoria, Illinois, was found guilty on Sept. 16, 2022, of attempted online enticement and attempted sex trafficking of a child, after a five-day trial before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria, Illinois man, Raphael Thompson, 34, of the 1100 block of East Arcadia, has been sentenced consecutively to 66 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute at least 5 grams of methamphetamine and 60 months, for possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The total sentence of 126 months is to be followed by five years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: A 43-year-old Tulsa man was sentenced Friday in federal court for assaulting and threatening to kill a victim, robbing him of hundreds of dollars, and stealing his vehicle.
By David Beasley | Sep 21, 2022
An Ohio man and a Huntington, West Virginia, woman were sentenced to prison for their roles in a drug trafficking organization that distributed large amounts of fentanyl, methamphetamine, cocaine, and other illegal drugs in the Huntington region.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.6 million grant to the village of Dodson, Louisiana, to renovate its wastewater treatment plant in support of economic growth. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on Sept. 22.
By State Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Armed Services Committee on Sept. 20.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on Sept. 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. -Christopher Wayne Livingood, 50, of Lexington, Ky., was sentenced on Friday to 360 months in federal prison, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny Reeves, for production of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $595,000 grant to the Wyoming Energy Authority, Cheyenne, Wyoming, to establish the Wyoming Energy Regional Economic Coordination Office. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan and EDA’s $300 million Coal Communities Commitment.
