News from September 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
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.

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: Faces 15 Years in Prison for Attempted Production of Child Pornography.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
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.

By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
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...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
News Release: Lied about background, education, military service and stole from marijuana businesses through an entity allegedly providing them banking services.

By USDA Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
“HONORING 100TH ANNIVERSARY FOR 31ST STREET BAPTIST CHURCH” was published on page E1805 of the Congressional Record on Dec. 16, 2015.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
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.

By John Kelly | Sep 30, 2022
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.

By Karen Kidd | Sep 30, 2022
The Biden administration issued the National Strategy on Hunger, Nutrition and Health Sept. 27.

By Lucas Nava | Sep 30, 2022
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm hosted the inaugural Global Clean Energy Action Forum closing ceremony Sept. 23.

By Bob Pepalis | Sep 30, 2022
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.

By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
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...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
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.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
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.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
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.

By Tamara Browning | Sep 30, 2022
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas approved a temporary and targeted Jones Act waiver to help Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane Fiona.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
“CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD” was published on page D1025 of the Congressional Record on Sept. 26.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Sept. 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.