News published on Federal Newswire in April 2022

News from April 2022


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on April 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Law Enforcement Also Recovered Five Firearms from Defendant’s Apartment Which He Used in Furtherance of His Drug Trafficking.


Jury Convicts Monticello Man of Selling Methamphetamine Multiple Times

News Release: LITTLE ROCK-A Monticello man has been convicted of selling methamphetamine three different times in 2018 following a two-day trial that featured videos of all three sales. A federal jury convicted Ramien “Rambo" Collins, 40, on all three counts for which he was indicted.


News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On April 13, 2022, a federal jury convicted a registered sex offender, Everett Eugene Miller, Jr., 55, of Sunbright, Tennessee, of enticement of a minor for sex, transporting a minor in interstate commerce for sex, committing those offenses while being required to register as a sex...


Risch Joins Rubio, Intel Republicans in Urging Biden Administration to Share Critical Intelligence with Ukrainians

News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, today joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and fellow committee members U.S.


DHS-DHS offers new grant application process starting April 13

Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Emergency Management Performance Grant Program - Region 2 grant opened on April 13.


News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Aleah Mohammed was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison for carrying out multiple schemes to defraud health care programs, including obtaining more than $6.5 million from Medicare Part D plans and Medicaid drug plans. Mohammed pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud, one count of health care fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud in April 2021.


News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announce two morning closures of Clingmans Dome Road on Tuesday, April 19 and Wednesday, April 20 until 1:00 p.m. each day. The seven-mile roadway will be closed on both mornings to facilitate a special curriculum-based education program. The closure will go into effect the night before each program day.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on April 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Ocean View Bookkeeper Pleads Guilty to  Defrauding Former Employer of More Than $1 Million

News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. -David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Joan Donald, 55, of Ocean View, pled guilty today in federal court to wire fraud and tax evasion arising from her theft of more than $1 million dollars from Dovetail, Inc., her former employer. Chief U.S. District Judge Colm F. Connolly accepted the plea.


The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on April 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


China Aid Association welcomes former detainee in the Chinese Communist Party’s concentration camp

Over the weekend, China Aid Association welcomed Wubulibaike Tuerdahong and his family, Christians originally from Kyrgyzstan, to the United States where they have been granted humanitarian parole status


News Release: VALDOSTA, Ga. - A Thomasville, Georgia, resident with a violent criminal history who fled from police after being caught illegally with multiple weapons-including a stolen AR-15 semi-automatic rifle-pleaded guilty to a firearms charge in federal court.


News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Devin Nau, age 27, of Auburn, New York, pled guilty today before United States District Judge David N. Hurd to two counts of sexual exploitation of a child and two counts of distribution of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Matthew Scarpino, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Buffalo, New York Field Office, and New York State Police Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen.


Representatives Scott, Lee, Frankel Call Upon GAO to Conduct Study on Caregiving Youth

Representatives Scott, Lee, Frankel Call Upon GAO to Conduct Study on Caregiving Youth


Mexican Man Sentenced to Prison for Illegally Reentering the United States After Being Deported

News Release: A man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported was sentenced today to three months in federal prison.



News Release: BOSTON - Two Brazilian nationals pleaded guilty on Monday, April 11, 2022, in connection with a nationwide conspiracy to open fraudulent driver accounts with rideshare and delivery service companies.



New York Man Pleads Guilty for His Role in a Computer Fraud Scheme that Targeted the Elderly

News Release: United States Attorney Ronald C. Gathe, Jr. announced today that Mohammad Alam, age 50, of New York, pled guilty to a Bill of Information charging him with misprision of a felony before U.S. District Court Judge John W. deGravelles.