News from September 2022

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House and Senate leaders submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion County v. Talevski. The Democrats wrote in support of the ability of individuals to use federal courts to enforce the requirements of certain federal programs,...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Two Pennsylvania man were sentenced today to 41 months each in prison for assaulting law enforcement officers and conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Their actions and the actions of others 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 27, 2022
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - On Sept. 24 at the request of Governor Pedro Pierluisi, four additional municipalities were approved in a new amendment to the Major Disaster Declaration for Hurricane Fiona and San Germán was added on Sept. 25.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A man has been charged in federal court with murdering a Chicago teenager during a robbery last fall.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Medard Ulysse, age 38, of Miami, Florida, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud in relation to multiple fraud schemes, including an elder “grandparent" scheme and a COVID-19 CARES Act Fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: GREENSBORO - A Mecklenburg County man was sentenced today in Greensboro to 228 months for drug trafficking and firearm offenses that occurred in Cabarrus County, within the Middle District of North Carolina.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PHILLIP GARCIA, also known as “Flip," 50, last residing in Bloomfield, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for narcotics distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), along with Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Shoua Lee, 41, La Crosse, Wisconsin, was sentenced on Thursday, Sept. 22, by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 24 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a felon. The prison term will be followed by 36 months of supervised release. Lee pleaded guilty to this charge on July 5, 2022.

By EPA Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
“DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY BLUE CAMPAIGN AUTHORIZATION ACT OF 2017“ was published in the House section on pages H10394-H10403 on Dec. 21, 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - The Justice Department announced that Axel C. Cox, 23, has been charged with hate crime and arson violations for burning a cross in his front yard to threaten, interfere with and intimidate a Black family in Gulfport, Mississippi.

By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: Guest post from Melissa Oh, Managing Director of S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) in the Office of Industry Partnerships.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
“REPORT ON RESOLUTION PROVIDING FOR CONSIDERATION OF SENATE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 1370, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY BLUE CAMPAIGN AUTHORIZATION ACT OF ” was published on page H10348 of the Congressional Record on Dec. 21, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: Defendants Accused of Operating Bribery Scheme to Smuggle Drugs to Inmates.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owner of an Inland Empire business pleaded guilty today to filing false tax returns that failed to report more than $4.8 million over a five-year period, resulting in his failure to pay $1.6 million in taxes due to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 43 year-old Houston rapper has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of conspiracy to distribute and distributing meth, cocaine and opioids, announced U.S. Attorney B. Lowery.

By DOL Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA) sent a letter to Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Assistant Secretary Douglas L. Parker to condemn OSHA’s forthcoming COVID-19 rule-which...

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a six page proposed rule on Sept. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The owners of three money wiring businesses in the Kansas City metropolitan area are among five new defendants charged for their roles in a $4.7 million conspiracy to distribute more than 335 kilograms of methamphetamine and 22 kilograms of heroin, and to utilize wire transfers to send the drug-trafficking proceeds to Mexico.

By US DOT Newswire | Sep 27, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a five page rule on Sept. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.