News from September 2022
By David Beasley | Sep 16, 2022
Wendy Wu, political economy editor at the South China Morning Post, recently highlighted some challenges China is facing in its food security and emphasized the importance of stability leading into the 20th Party Congress.
By State Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
Release: Let me start with a warm thank you to Executive Director Pawnday and the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect for inviting me to speak today. Congratulations on your tenth annual Focal Points meeting. The work you do is incredibly important to strengthening multilateral approaches to atrocity prevention and operationalizing the responsibility to protect.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG, The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Juan Wence-Mendoza, age 45, of Michoacán, Mexico, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of Illegal Reentry.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A suburban Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to nine years of imprisonment on his convictions for distribution of fentanyl and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Robert Pierre Duncan, 26, of Sacramento, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for a conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a child, sex trafficking of a child, and escape from custody, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn man was sentenced on Sept. 12, 2022 for his involvement in a scheme to defraud a financial institution and to obtain money from its customers’ accounts using fraudulent identification documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors today filed criminal charges against nine defendants - seven of them dockworkers at the Port of Long Beach - who allowed more than $2.1 million in fraudulent claims to be submitted to their labor union’s health insurance plan for sexual services or for physical therapy that never was provided.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Sept. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Well, good afternoon, everyone. I’m so pleased to welcome my colleague, the foreign minister of Portugal, Joao Cravinho. Welcome to the State Department. It’s great to have you here. And I think the timing couldn’t be better to pursue conversations on so many vital issues, starting ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Daniel D. Shin (619) 546-7609.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DANIELLE DORSETT, age 54, and her brother, BYRON J. LAFOREST, age 50, both residents of Atlanta, Georgia, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to conspiracy to use false or counterfeit passports. Judge Barbier scheduled their sentencings for January 5, 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man from the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles was sentenced today to 292 months in federal prison for producing child pornography of him raping a then 15-year-old girl he had kidnapped from her home in Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - David Keith Nutter, 55, of Summersville, was sentenced today to one year in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of firearms by a person previously convicted of misdemeanor crimes of domestic violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - A 51-year-old Mexican national who was head of Cartel del Golfo (CDG) from 2003 to 2012 has been ordered to prison and to pay millions for his role in conspiring to distribute cocaine and marijuana from Mexico into the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - A federal grand jury in West Palm Beach has charged five men with one count of conspiracy to distribute child pornography and multiple counts of distribution and solicitation of child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that their bipartisan Planning for Animal Wellness (PAW) Act to help protect pets and other animals during and in the aftermath...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
There are four releases scheduled to be published on Sept. 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Malachi Deloch (23, Tampa) was sentenced to four years and seven months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Deloch had pleaded guilty on June 14, 2022. He was also ordered to forfeit the semi-automatic pistol used in the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Argelianka Garcia, of New York, New York, was sentenced today to five years probation for her involvement in a drug conspiracy that spanned several states, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 12, 2022, the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee, sentenced John David Morrow, 51, of Maryville, Tennessee, to 15 years in prison.
