News from April 2022
By State Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today joined Senators Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee held a business meeting to consider the following items...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Loyd Tomlinson, I (St. Petersburg, 79) to four years and four months in federal prison for defrauding a federally insured financial institution out of more than $20 million. As part of his sentence, the Court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $400,000, the proceeds of the fraud. Tomlinson had pleaded guilty on August 5, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Michigan man pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS - During the week of April 11th, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) will be surveying bighorn sheep and aoudad (Barbary sheep) in Big Bend National Park. TPWD biologists will be using a helicopter in the remote Mesa de Anguila area of the park to search for both species. There will be no lethal control of aoudad and all areas of the National Park will remain open.
By State Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This week, House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul delivered remarks at The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: A former University of Kansas (KU) professor was today convicted by a federal jury on three counts of wire fraud and one count of false statements after he deliberately concealed that he was also employed by a government-affiliated university in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), while working on U.S. government funded research at KU.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today announced several actions the Department is taking to advance its work on wildlife corridors. The Department’s efforts will focus on conservation and restoration of wildlife corridors and habitat connectivity in a way that supports conservation outcomes, honors private landowner rights, and encourages collaboration with other federal agencies, state and local governments, Tribes and other stakeholders.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: On April 4 and 5, in Mexico City, Mexico, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico hosted a collaborative Regional Smuggling Forum and Roundtable event to promote the Bicentennial Agreement. The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)’s Office of Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training (OPDAT) led the State Department’s ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee; Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the EPW Committee and Co-Chair of the Senate Recycling Caucus; and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Co-Chair of the Senate Recycling Caucus and member of the EPW Committee, today applauded the EPW Committee’s passage of their legislation to improve our nation’s recycling and composting systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: A Chinese national formerly residing in Chesterfield, Missouri, was today sentenced to 29 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release and a $150,000 fine for conspiring to commit economic espionage.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Sixteen individuals from Maryland and West Virginia are facing charges involving a drug conspiracy, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
“CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD“ was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D355-D359 on April 4
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -Deputy Secretary of the Interior Tommy Beaudreau and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Martha Williams visited Puerto Rico this week to highlight how investments from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Great American Outdoors Act will help strengthen ...
By Fed Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on March 15–16, 2022.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC), Small Business Committee Republican Leader Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO), Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Republican Leader Rick Allen (R-GA), and Oversight, Investigations, and Regulations Subcommittee Republican Leader Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) issued the following joint statement on the discovery of unions illegally receiving Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funds...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice urges taxpayers to choose their return preparers wisely as the April 18th federal tax filing deadline approaches. Return preparer fraud is one of the IRS’ Dirty Dozen Tax Scams. Unscrupulous preparers who include errors or false information on a tax return could leave a taxpayer open to liability for unpaid taxes, penalties and interest.
By State Newswire | Apr 8, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met today with Bangladeshi Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen to recognize the 50th anniversary of U.S.-Bangladesh relations and discuss bilateral economic, commercial, and security collaboration. They also discussed ...
