News from September 2022
By Press release submission | Sep 10, 2022
Remarks at a UN Security Council Briefing on Somalia
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: Oman. During the review period, the government made significant progress by ensuring its sovereign wealth fund had a sound legal framework and disclosed its sources of funding and general approach to withdrawals. The government made its enacted budget and end-of-year...
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry will travel to Abuja, Nigeria, September 12-13 and Dakar, Senegal, September 14-15, where he will engage in discussions with government counterparts and the private sector regarding strengthening climate action and the upcoming 27th Conference of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: Defendant Assaulted Law Enforcement Officer and Member of Media.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: THE WASHINGTON FOREIGN PRESS CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By Press release submission | Sep 10, 2022
Remarks to the UNICEF Executive Board
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Former City of Atlanta Director of Human Services, Mitzi L. Bickers, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for accepting approximately $3 million in bribe money to influence government contracts, money laundering, lying to the City of Atlanta to maintain her salary and cabinet-level position, and failing to disclose more than $600,000 in income on her federal tax return.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: MR PATEL: Good afternoon, everybody, and Happy Friday. Welcome to this press call to preview Secretary Blinken’s upcoming travel to Mexico on Monday, September 12th for the 2022 U.S.-Mexico High-Level Economic Dialogue. Joining us today is Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Brian ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - An Ocean Springs man was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA").
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling announced that on September 9, 2022 that Stacy Chappell (age 44) was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison for a series of armed robberies of Milwaukee-area auto parts stores.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Ohio man was sentenced today to 40 months in federal prison for his 12-year campaign of harassment - via letters and phone calls - against a television actress and her daughter in which he threatened to torture, rape and kill them.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: Yakima, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, today announced a $400,000 Department of Justice grant to the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. The grant provides support and resources to the Tribes for maintaining a sex offender registry and ensuring sex offenders’ registration is current at all times.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent a letter with 71 other members of Congress to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md.) expressing strong opposition to including “comprehensive permitting reform legislation" in this month’s Continuing Resolution (CR)....
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Sept. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
Release: Government-by-Government Assessments: People's Republic of China.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that the owner and managers of a rental property in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, harassed a tenant because of his sex, including his sexual orientation and his disability, in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: The United States is, and will continue to be, a global leader in international humanitarian response, including through refugee resettlement. We have prioritized rebuilding and strengthening the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) in a strategic, sustainable way that positions the program on a durable ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: Indictments Allege that Defendants Collectively Received More Than $800,000 in Fraudulently-Obtained COVID-19 Relief Funding, Seek Forfeiture of West Richland Residence Purchased with Fraudulently-Obtained Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Kansas man pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual acts with a child and taking nude pictures and videos of the child. According to court documents, Joshua Courtney, 35, of Bonner Springs pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual exploitation of a child and four counts of possession of child pornography.
