News from April 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: Defendant Puneet Dikshit Was a Lead McKinsey Partner Advising Goldman Sachs on Its Acquisition of GreenSky.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: Fort Myers, FL - On March 31, the U.S. Marshals Service’s Florida Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force personnel from Fort Myers partnered with state and local agencies to conduct Operation Washout, a U.S. Marshals Service national initiative focused on the investigation and arrest of violent fugitives and gang members with active arrest warrants.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: Great Smoky Mountains National Park is seeking public input on proposed fee program changes for 2023, including a new parkwide parking fee and an increase to existing fee rates at frontcountry and backcountry campsites, picnic pavilions, and day-use cabin rentals. All revenue generated through these...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
There was activity on four bills related to the Energy and Commerce Committee on April 5.
By State Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good morning, everyone. As this Russian tide is receding from parts of Ukraine, the world is seeing the death and destruction left in its wake, and we’re seeing in particular the horror that’s been left behind in Bucha, something that is touching people literally around the world.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that a Wilmington man was sentenced yesterday to 11 years in prison for possessing a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. U.S. District Judge Leonard P. Stark pronounced the sentence. This was Jackson’s third firearms conviction.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Bob Pepalis | Apr 6, 2022
The Biden administration’s attempts to resurrect an Obama-era agreement with Iran, permitted the Iranians to conduct nuclear research and engineering for energy purposes under UN oversight, which Republicans harshly criticized.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A West Hills man was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for starting a fire that caused substantial damage to a Santa Monica restaurant during the civil disturbances that erupted during the spring of 2020.
By Bob Pepalis | Apr 6, 2022
The U.S. Department of Commerce laid out an agenda for innovation, equity and resilience with the release of its fiscal year 2022-2026 Strategic Plan, which intends to strengthen America’s competitiveness in the 21st century.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement about the H.R. 5657, the Medical Marijuana Research Act, led by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) and Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA). H.R 5657 passed the House with bipartisan support.
By State Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks and Michael McCaul, Chair and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Representatives Karen Bass and Christopher Smith, Chair and Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, and Global Human Rights, released the following statement following recent reports of mass killings of civilians in central Mali.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan has sentenced Samuel Maldonado (48, New York City) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for failing to register as a convicted sex offender after absconding from parole in New York and moving to Jacksonville. Maldonado was...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page proposed rule on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Chair of the Homeland Security Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services fiscal year budget request.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: HARPERS FERRY, W.Va.- The National Park Service (NPS), the National Park Trust, Our Military Kids, Trout Unlimited, and KBP Foods partnered this past weekend to bring twelve children of military personnel and their families to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (NHP) for a day of fishing on the banks of the iconic Shenandoah River.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - Representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) will host a Virtual Flood Map Information Open House for communities in Itasca County, Minnesota, on April 12, 2022, from 5 - 7 p.m. The open house will give residents the chance to review preliminary versions of a recently completed Flood Insurance Study (FIS) report and its accompanying preliminary Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs).
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after former Committee Chairman and current Energy Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Upton (R-MI) announced that he will retire at the end of this Congress.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 6, 2022
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Texas husband and wife yesterday for a $1 million Medicare fraud scheme, including violations of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute.
