News from April 2022
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), released the following statement on President Biden’s call for Congress to pass additional resources to support Ukraine, and to continue the nation’s progress fighting COVID-19.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that JOSHUA PICOU, age 30, of Houma, Louisiana, was charged on April 28, 2022 in a seven-count indictment by a federal grand jury for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act and Federal Controlled Substances Act. Specifically, he is...
By Press release submission | Apr 29, 2022
Portman: March CBP Numbers Show 33 Percent Increase in Unlawful Migrant Encounters at Southern Border
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Phillip Lahi, Sr., 70, and an enrolled member of the Zuni Pueblo, made an initial appearance in federal court today facing charges of aggravated sexual abuse of a child in Indian Country. Lahi will remain in custody/on conditions of release pending a detention hearing scheduled for May 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Marvin “MJ" Mitchell (36, St. Peterburg) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl, and possession with the intent to distribute heroin, crack cocaine, and fentanyl. Mitchell faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison on each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Press release submission | Apr 29, 2022
USCIS Provides Information on Uniting for Ukraine
By Press release submission | Apr 29, 2022
CBP Officers Seize Mixed Narcotics Worth over $737K at Del Rio Port of Entry
By DOL Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA ─ The U.S. Department of Labor announced today a series of listening sessions with workers, employers and workplace stakeholders on potential revisions to regulations used to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime exemptions for executive, administrative and professional employees.
By State Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement following passage of the Countering Malign Russian Activities in Africa Act in the House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Joseph D. Sanford, 74, of Ceres, aka “Chicken Joe," was sentenced today to 16 months in prison and a fined $25,000 for conspiring to sell, buy, possess, train, transport, deliver and receive game fowl intended to be used in animal fighting ventures, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
Release: LINTHICUM, Md. Officials from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and Baltimore/ Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) commemorated the 20th anniversary of the federalization of the airport. BWI was the first airport to launch under TSA security oversight on April 30, 2002, with a security checkpoint staffed by federal TSA officers only a few months after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on April 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page notice on April 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) responded to the Biden Administration’s effort to establish a ‘Disinformation Governance Board’ at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and urged Democrats to abandon their censorship mission.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that STACEY V. SANTEMORE, SR., age 46, formerly of New Orleans but now a resident of Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty on April 27, 2022 before U.S. District Court Judge Jay C. Zainey to a two-count bill of information charging him with making false statements and theft of government funds related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).
By State Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
There was activity on four bills related to the Armed Services Committee on April 28.
By Press release submission | Apr 29, 2022
Criminal Migrant Arrests Continue in RGV
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
There was activity on two bills related to the Oversight and Reform Committee on April 28.
By Press release submission | Apr 29, 2022
RGV Agents Encounter Three Large Groups In 24 Hours
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that on April 28, 2022 U.S. District Court Judge Wendy B. Vitter sentenced KENDRICK DEMOURELLE, age 40, a resident of Slidell, Louisiana, to 120 months of imprisonment, five years of supervised release, and $300 in mandatory special assessment...
