News published on Federal Newswire in April 2022

News from April 2022


News Release: WILLIAMSPORT- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Devon Buck, age 33, of Cogan Station, Pennsylvania, has been charged in a one-count criminal Information with attempting to evade income taxes.



Federal Jury Finds Ohio Man Guilty in Connection with Destructive Devices Found on Tug Boats

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - After a two-day trial, a federal jury convicted an Ohio man of all four counts in a federal indictment charging him in connection with pipe bombs found on tugboats on the Ohio River.


USDA-NIFA grant application closes on June 15

Equipment Grants Program grant opened on April 20.


DRL Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): Advancing Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea)

Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL Advancing Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK or North Korea). This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008904...


News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal jury on Monday convicted a Bessemer man charged under the “Kingpin" statute, and three other defendants, on charges of operating a continuing criminal enterprise involved in the large-scale distribution of illegal drugs, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona, Federal Bureau...


News Release: Brent Lewis has spent the past 36 years, in his words, “herding contamination in his hobby-career.".


TSA stops gun at Dane County Regional Airport

Release: MADISON Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented a handgun from making its way onboard an airplane at Dane County Regional Airport (MSN) Tuesday.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JA’VONTAY OWENS, age 28, a resident of Bogalusa, Louisiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans. The Court imposed concurrent seventy-two (72) month sentences as to Counts 1-2 and a consecutive sixty (60) month sentence...




Promoting Accountability for Human Rights Abuses in Russia and Belarus and Taking Action Against Sanctions Evaders

Release: President Putin’s unprovoked and unjustified war against Ukraine, conducted with the complicity of the Lukashenka regime, continues to cause needless suffering and thousands of civilian casualties.  The world has witnessed the horrors of this war in the images from the Ukrainian towns of Bucha, Irpin, and Hostomel, and in Ukrainian towns and cities still occupied or under siege, such as Mariupol.


William Kelly Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison in Connection with the AnC Vermont EB-5 Project in the Northeast Kingdom

News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that William Kelly, 73, of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and previously of Weston, Florida, was sentenced today to 18 months in prison by Chief Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford in United States District Court. Chief Judge Crawford also ordered a three-year term of...


News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KATIE LAROCHE, age 53, from New Orleans, was charged on April 19, 2022 with wire fraud, based on her embezzlement of $233,363.53 from a client.


The NLRB Keeps Playing Footsies with Unions

News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on the National Labor Relations Board’s decision to intervene in the termination of an Amazon employee in Staten Island...


Statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on the 27th Anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing

News Release: Attorney General Merrick B. Garland issued the following statement today, commemorating the 27th anniversary of the Oklahoma City Bombing, which took place April 19, 1995, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:


News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Kentucky man pleaded guilty today to wire fraud after accepting payments for building projects he never intended to do.


DOS-NER grant application closes on June 30

Fiscal Transparency Innovation Fund (FTIF) grant opened on April 20.


Federal court orders Delaware landscaper to pay $50K in liquidated damages after US Labor Department investigation, litigation

News Release: LEWES, DE - Following litigation initiated by the U.S. Department of Labor, a federal court ordered a Delaware landscaping company and its owner to pay $50,622 in liquidated damages to 10 temporary workers.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KEISHIRA ROBINSON (“K. ROBINSON"), age 27, of New Orleans, Louisiana was sentenced today for Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of her involvement in a staged automobile accident that occurred on Oct. 13, 2015. Thus far, the total number of defendants convicted in “Operation Sideswipe" is thirty-six (36).