News published on Federal Newswire in August 2022

News from August 2022


Nashville man issued multiple citations for graffiti vandalism

News Release: TUPELO, Miss. - National Park Service (NPS) rangers cited a man caught in the act of spray painting the TN 96 bridge on Natchez Trace Parkway. The 20-year-old man from Nashville, Tennessee was spotted by a NPS employee, who reported it to law enforcement officers.


News Release: ROME, Ga. - Juan Cain Valencia-Ramirez has been sentenced for conspiring to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine and to launder drug money.


News Release: Three Nigerian citizens were extradited from the United Kingdom (UK) and arrived in the United States in relation to their alleged participation in multimillion-dollar cyber-enabled business email compromise (BEC) fraud schemes in the Western District of North Carolina, Southern District of Texas and...


DOI-BOEM grant application closes on Sept. 23

NT-22-01: Capacity Building and Collaboration with the Aquinnah and Mashpee Wampanoag Tribes grant opened on Aug. 23.


DOE-GFO offers new grant application process starting Aug. 23

Notice of Intent (NOI) for Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA0002801 grant opened on Aug. 23.


William Roger Woodie Sentenced To 25 Years For Conspiracy To Distribute Methamphetamine

News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On August 8, 2022, William Roger Woodie, 33, of Calhoun, Georgia, was sentenced to 300 months in prison by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.


Leader Rodgers Statement on Dr. Anthony Fauci

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after Dr. Anthony Fauci announced his plans to step down from the positions of Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Chief of the NIAID Laboratory of Immunoregulation, as well as the position of Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden.


Federal Emergency Management Agency set to publish a new notice on Aug. 24

There are three releases scheduled to be published on Aug. 24.


Investigation finds 2 recycling companies failed to use fire safety plans, to evacuate 9 workers as air rescue averts drilling platform tragedy

News Release: SABINE PASS, TX - A federal workplace investigation has found two companies’ failures to follow required safety standards endangered the lives of nine workers who found themselves trapped - nearly 30 stories high - atop a burning jack-up drilling platform decommissioned in the Anchorage Basin near a Sabine Pass shipyard.


Kanawha County Man Sentenced to Prison for Role in Multi-State Methamphetamine Conspiracy


FBI Announces Results of Nationwide Sex Trafficking Operation


Tampa Man Sentenced To Eight Years In Prison For Illegal Possession Of A Firearm


Las Cruces man charged for threatening to burn New Mexico State University


Huntington Man Sentenced to Prison for Federal Gun Crime


Lansing Pharmaceutical Sales Representative Sentenced To One Year In Prison For Defrauding Michigan State University Of $1.2 Million For Compounded Drug Prescriptions


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed two Republican natural resources bills. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response.


Two Ashland Men Sentenced for Drug Trafficking and Firearms Charges


Ohio woman admits lying about St. Louis romance scam


Owasso Man Pleads Guilty to Child Pornography Charge


News Release: CHICAGO - A jury has convicted two suburban Chicago men on drug conspiracy charges as part of a federal investigation that disrupted a Mexico-to-Chicago drug pipeline.