News from September 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-An indictment has been unsealed in federal court charging two Nigerian nationals for attempting to steal $25 million from nearly two dozen public and private entities around the United States, including at least one in Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Carlos Maldonado, owner of Business Planning Resources International Corporation (BPRIC), Glorimar Fashions and Tailoring, LLC, Global Business Insurance Agency Inc., and associated under the incorporation documents with Pet Card Systems, Inc., and Datavos Corporation, was sentenced...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Five physicians pleaded guilty in connection with prescription practices at HOPE Clinic, a purported pain management clinic that operated in Beckley, Beaver and Charleston, West Virginia, and Wytheville, Virginia.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department today intervened in a disability discrimination lawsuit brought by individuals with mobility disabilities against the City of San Juan, Puerto Rico under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504). The department’s complaint alleges that San Juan fails to provide people with mobility disabilities equal access to the city’s public sidewalk system.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A California man was sentenced in federal court today for transporting what court documents describe as “an extraordinary quantity of methamphetamine" in a borrowed car as he traveled from California through Missouri.

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Sept. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) concluded a trip to Wisconsin, where he joined U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wis.) to attend the Great Lakes Logging & Heavy Equipment Expo and visit forestry operations in the state to learn more about Wisconsin's timber industry.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the arrest of Miguel Diaz Gonzalez (40, Orlando) on a criminal complaint charging him with production of child sex abuse material. If convicted, Gonzalez faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, and up to 30 years, in federal prison. Gonzalez made his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Celeste F. Bremer last week and has been ordered detained pending trial.

By Karen Kidd | Sep 13, 2022
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA)'s recently announced $513 million in infrastructure emergency relieve funds, including a large chunk for Michigan, will help local communities recover from natural disasters and other catastrophic events, according to news releases.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Fadl Mohamad Alharbi, age 51, of Syracuse, was sentenced today in federal court in Syracuse to a $10,000 fine and to two years of supervised release following his conviction for naturalizing contrary to law and submitting a false statement in a passport application. The sentence...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Sept. 14.

By US DOT Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
There was activity on two bills related to the Environment and Public Works Committee on Sept. 12.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park invites the public to celebrate working woodlands and wood craft during its annual Forest Festival event on Saturday, September 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Entry to the park and event is free. Parking for the event is at the Billings Farm & Museum overflow lot.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: ROCKFORD - A man was sentenced today to 41 years in federal prison in connection with a series of violent retail-store robberies in Rockford.

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Sept. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
Release: BOSTON Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped a female passenger from carrying a loaded firearm onto an airplane this morning at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS).

By Interior Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: Join us on Saturday, September 24th for our Autumn Star Party at Pipestone National Monument! Programs and kids' activities start at 5:00pm and stargazing and astrophotography start at 8:30pm. The schedule will run as follows.

By DOE Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement regarding President Joe Biden’s pledge to “end cancer as we know it," while also signing socialist price controls into law that will lead to fewer cures.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Hopkins man has been sentenced to life in prison for distributing controlled substances, including fentanyl, which resulted in the deaths of eleven people and caused serious bodily injury to four people, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 13, 2022
News Release: Glen Zinszer Defrauded Local Investors and Filed False Tax Returns.