News published on Federal Newswire in September 2022

News from September 2022


Memphis Man Pleads Guilty to Trafficking 17-Year-Old Female into the New Orleans Area to Perform Commercial Sex Acts

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that DOMINIQUE PEEPLES, age 25, from Memphis, Tennessee, pleaded guilty on Sept. 28, 2022 to Sex Trafficking of a Minor, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1591(a)(1), 1591(b)(2), 1594(a), and 2.


Sept. 29, 2022, Update: Champlain Towers South Investigation Completes Site Testing, Announces Next Advisory Committee Meeting

News Release: This summer, members of the National Construction Safety Team (NCST) completed testing at the former site of the Champlain Towers South building in Surfside, Florida, collecting data to help improve computer models that will be used to evaluate potential causes of the June 2021 collapse. An update on this effort and other work related to the investigation will be presented to the NCST Advisory Committee at a public meeting on Oct. 19, 2022.


News Release: Faces 15 Years in Prison for Attempted Production of Child Pornography.


Beaumont Men Indicted on Federal Violations in Animal Cruelty Case

News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Beaumont men have been indicted for federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.


Senate Passes Peters and Portman Bipartisan Legislation to Help At-Risk Communities Invest in Disaster Mitigation Projects

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Senate has passed bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to make permanent the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Risk...


Former Washington state resident indicted for defrauding investors and marijuana businesses

News Release: Lied about background, education, military service and stole from marijuana businesses through an entity allegedly providing them banking services.


“HONORING 100TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 31ST STREET BAPTIST CHURCH” published by the Congressional Record  on Dec. 16, 2015

“HONORING 100TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 31ST STREET BAPTIST CHURCH” was published on page E1805 of the Congressional Record on Dec. 16, 2015.


Philadelphia Man Faces Federal Charges for Carjacking Mother and Daughter Outside Northeast Philadelphia Home Before School

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Amir Harvey, 20, of Philadelphia, PA was arrested and charged by Criminal Complaint with carjacking and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, in connection with a carjacking incident which occurred in Northeast Philadelphia earlier this month.


Dayoub: 'Educator and coach used deception, manipulation and threats to exploit' Topeka youths

A Kansas man was sentenced to 30 years in prison for impersonating a young girl and convincing numerous youths to send him sexually explicit pictures and videos of themselves.


Vilsack: New strategy 'sets us on a path to end hunger, enhance nutrition and improve health outcomes in this country'

The Biden administration issued the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition and Health Sept. 27.


Granholm: First Global Clean Energy Action Forum brought together 'thousands of leaders from industry and advocacy'

U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm hosted the inaugural Global Clean Energy Action Forum closing ceremony Sept. 23.


Graves: 'Online school only works if teachers and children have the right digital tools'

No one could have envisioned what the world would look like after a global pandemic when the International Telecommunication Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference last met in 2018 in Dubai, Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves said.


Murray, Duckworth, Blumenthal, Hirono, Escobar Rally with Servicemembers and Veterans to Defend Their Access to Reproductive Care as Republicans Continue Attacks

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As Republicans continue to push forward their proposal to ban abortion nationwide and attack the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs’ (VA) historic action to provide abortion care for veterans in certain circumstances, U.S. Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee...


News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Jamal Merrell, 32, of Newark, pled guilty in federal court today after an FBI investigation revealed that Merrell, under the ruse of conducting an active fraud investigation, stole various electronic items from an international reshipping company in New Castle. Chief Magistrate Judge Mary Pat Thynge accepted the plea.


News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge on Monday sentenced an Alabama man for devising a scheme to defraud Jefferson County’s retirement plan, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Felix A. Rivera-Esparra.


News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Bryan Glass, 25, of Indianapolis, was sentenced to 32 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.


Two Former eBay Executives Sentenced to Prison for Cyberstalking

News Release: BOSTON - The former Senior Director of Safety & Security at eBay, Inc. and the company’s former Director of Global Resiliency were sentenced to prison today for their roles in a cyberstalking campaign targeting the editor and publisher of a newsletter that eBay executives viewed as critical of the company.


Mayorkas: Waiver of Jones Act ensures ‘the people of Puerto Rico have sufficient diesel’

Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas approved a temporary and targeted Jones Act waiver to help Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Fiona.


“CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD” was published on page D1025 of the Congressional Record on Sept. 26.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Sept. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.