News from September 2022
By Lucas Nava | Sep 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy announced a $40 million funding opportunity for the advancement and deployment of clean hydrogen technologies.
By Karen Kidd | Sep 3, 2022
The U.S. Department of the Interior is working to achieve diversity in its workplace.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is working with its federal, state, local, and non-governmental partners to support the needs of the areas affected by the devastating wildfires in Dulzura, California and throughout the state, and the water crisis in Mississippi.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Austin Michael Light, 21, of Beaver, pleaded guilty today to possession of prepubescent child pornography.
By State Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul will join Martha Raddatz on ABC’s “This Week" this Sunday, September 4th at 8amET/7amCT. Rep. McCaul will discuss Russia’s unprovoked war on Ukraine, President Biden’s chaotic unconditional withdrawal from Afghanistan, and the 2022 midterm elections.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Nathaniel David Corser, age 23, of Colorado Springs, pleaded guilty today to distribution of fentanyl resulting in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: Two Marshall Island nationals, Cary Yan, 50, and Gina Zhou, 34, arrived in the United States today after being extradited from Thailand. Yan and Zhou are charged with allegedly violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), money laundering, and conspiracy to commit those offenses in connection ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A retired New York Police Department officer was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for assaulting a law enforcement officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon and related charges for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His and others’ actions disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Local governments, houses of worship and other nonprofit organizations in Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Johnson, Knott, Leslie, Letcher, Magoffin, Martin, Owsley, Perry, Pike and Wolfe counties damaged by the July 26 Eastern Kentucky floods have more time to submit requests for FEMA Public Assistance.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a funding opportunity availability of up to $10 million to support the work of the local, state-level labor courts created by Mexico’s 2019 labor law reform. The project will focus on strengthening the capacity of the courts to adjudicate labor cases, particularly those related to freedom of association, collective bargaining and other fundamental labor rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: DENVER- The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces Georgiana Elizabeth Jones, age 43, was sentenced to 63 months in federal prison for bank robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022, Michael Ochoa, 27, and Chasity Breanna Harris, 22, were sentenced for their roles in sexually exploiting a five-year old child, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. Ochoa was sentenced to 60 years for the sexual exploitation of a child and advertising child pornography. Harris was sentenced to 25 years for the sexual exploitation of a child. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Lower Brule, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aiding and Abetting Larceny.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO (Sept. 2, 2022) – Today, U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency filed a civil judicial complaint against River City Diesel LLC, RCD Performance LLC, and Midwest Truck and 4WD Center LLC (collectively RCD) and Joshua Davis of East Peoria, Illinois, for manufacturing, selling, and installing aftermarket "defeat devices" designed to bypass vehicle emission controls in violation of the federal Clean Air Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Christopher Allen, 29, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 57 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Jackson man pled guilty to two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm and one count of engaging in business as a manufacturer of firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: YAKIMA, Wash. - The Bureau of Reclamation will begin its annual “flip-flop" operation in late August to aid in successful spawning and incubation of chinook salmon eggs and to improve winter reservoir storage in the Yakima basin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Manderson, South Dakota, man convicted of two counts of Involuntary Manslaughter was sentenced on Aug. 23, 2022, by Judge Karen E. Schreier, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANTHONY DONES, also known as “Ant," 41, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to 36 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing fentanyl and unlawfully possessing a firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 3, 2022
News Release: LOVELAND, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation is conducting a temporary draining of Pinewood Reservoir to allow work to be completed on two projects.
