News from April 2022

By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
Reimagining Juvenile Reintegration Centers in El Salvador grant opened on April 26.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN- Caesar Oruade, 38, and Ayana Saunders, 36, of Hawthorne, California, have been convicted of wire fraud conspiracy and conspiracy to launder money. Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., United States Attorney, announced the conviction today.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending nearly $3.4 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reimburse the College of the Holy Cross for the cost of testing students, faculty and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.

By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
Afghan Women Economic Empowerment Through Leveraging the Private Sector grant opened on April 26.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: Washington D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) today announced the introduction of House and Senate legislation to modernize the nation’s severely antiquated hardrock mining law.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: Dispose of your used, unwanted, and expired medicine safely on April 30th, 2022.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: Landmark skyline changes would continue across EM sites through key investments proposed in EM ’s fiscal year (FY) 2023 budget request, reflecting the Administration’s strong commitment to cleaning up the environment in a new era of steady, sustained achievement.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on April 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that a federal jury has found Prisciliano Garces Angulo (Colombia, 58) guilty of possessing and conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine on a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

By DOL Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh and Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm visited the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator on April 21, 2022, to highlight the Biden-Harris administration's Bipartisan Innovation Act.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - John Ross Lawrence, of Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 70 months of incarceration for a drug a charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - Two felons who shot towards, police - Phillip Michael King, 27, of Barnwell, and Anthony Lafayette Legette, a/k/a “Amp Legette," 37, of Columbia - were collectively sentenced to nearly 15 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to federal firearms violations.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to Briar Cliff University, Sioux City, Iowa, to renovate and expand a former residence hall to create the Health Care Workforce Training Facility. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.

By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
Release: Today, United States Ambassador to Colombia, Philip S. Goldberg, Colombian Vice President Marta Lucía Ramírez, Colombian Minister of Labor Ángel Custodio Cabrera Báez, Colombian Minister of the Interior Daniel Palacios Martínez, and General Director of the Family Welfare Institute of Colombia Lina María...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Judiciary Committee on April 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Michael Harris, 35, was arrested Sunday, April 24, 2022, in Knoxville, Tennessee by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Knoxville Police Department (KPD), and Knox County Sheriff’s Office on charges involving kidnapping an officer assisting federal authorities, prior convicted felon in possession of firearms, and possession with intent to distribute narcotics.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An Illinois man was sentenced to 240 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for sex trafficking a woman and transporting another woman to engage in prostitution, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on April 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met today with Frédéric Bernard, head of cabinet of the President of the European Council, in Washington, D.C. Deputy Secretary Sherman welcomed the EU’s strong financial, humanitarian, and military support ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of robbery, attempted robbery, and firearms violations, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.