News from August 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Dwight Smith, age 48, of Baltimore, Maryland was sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment by United States District Court Chief Judge Matthew W. Brann for attempting to provide contraband to inmates at the Federal Correctional Center, Allenwood.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Akiptan, Inc., the Cherokee Nation Economic Development Trust Authority (CNEDTA) and the Shared Capital Cooperative have been approved or conditionally approved as intermediary lenders through the Heirs’ Property Relending Program...
By Press release submission | Aug 19, 2022
At Committee Roundtable, Bipartisan Panelists Highlight “Desperate Need” to Counter Election Misinformation
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The highest-ranking fighter for the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a foreign terrorist organization, to have ever faced a jury trial in the United States was sentenced today to life imprisonment for his participation in a brutal hostage-taking scheme that resulted in the deaths of four American citizens, as well as the deaths of British and Japanese nationals, in Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Melisa Muminovic, age 25, of Utica, New York, pled guilty yesterday to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 40 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $1.1 million to the State of Connecticut to reimburse the City of Hartford for the costs of protecting the public during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Chantal Jaquez, age 20, of Syracuse, was sentenced yesterday to serve 111 months in federal prison for robbing a Syracuse convenience store and brandishing a semi-automatic rifle in furtherance of the robbery, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, John B. DeVito, Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - An employee for the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) was arrested today for allegedly stealing packages he was responsible for delivering.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
News Release: Today, the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) and NOAA announced the launch of a new pilot project to support Alaska Native communities' resilience to climate change. The project, “Expanding and Connecting Tribal-Led Climate Change Capacity to Serve Indigenous Community Needs in Alaska," will establish a director of Tribal climate change initiatives position at ANTHC to leverage statewide relationships with Tribes.
By State Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
Release: U.S. Special Envoy for Yemen Tim Lenderking returned to Washington on August 17 from travel to the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Saudi Arabia. During his trip, Special Envoy Lenderking engaged with senior officials from the Republic of Yemen Government, the United Nations, and regional and international partner countries as well as the Yemeni people to secure an expanded UN-mediated truce in Yemen to take effect October 2.
By Press release submission | Aug 19, 2022
Chairs Maloney, Clyburn Reveal that Quality Failures by Emergent BioSolutions Rendered 135 Million Additional Coronavirus Vaccine Doses Unusable
By Press release submission | Aug 19, 2022
Oversight Committee Report Reveals How Election Lies Endanger Election Workers and American Democracy
By Press release submission | Aug 19, 2022
Comer, Stefanik, Turner Conduct Oversight on FBI Director Wray’s Use of Government Aircraft for Personal Travel
By Press release submission | Aug 19, 2022
Neal, Brady Call On The Social Security Administration To Safeguard Visitors In Hot Summer Months
By State Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
The US State Department published a two page notice on Aug. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press release submission | Aug 19, 2022
“Middle-Class Families Ought to Be Worried” – Shoppers on Tight Budgets to Face 710,000 Additional Audits by Supercharged IRS
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Aug. 16, 2022, charging a former Maui Jim employee, Erica Hornof, 35, of Bradford, Illinois, with three counts of mail fraud and three counts of wire fraud stemming from the alleged theft of sunglass parts from Maui Jim from 2021 until summer 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Marino Cruz Diaz, 24, of Taft, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston to 10 years in prison for illegally cultivating marijuana in a national forest and ordered to pay over $13,000 in restitution for damage to the land, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Peoria, Illinois, man, Assante Bangmon, 31, of the 1300 block of North Bourland Street, has been sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance, to be followed by four years of supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 19, 2022
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
