News from August 2022
By Lucas Nava | Aug 26, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Highway Administration recently announced $100 million in grant awards for fiscal years 2020 and 2021 and $125 million in new funding for the Nationally Significant Federal Lands and Tribal Projects program.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
Elevating Womens Participation in the Workplace in West Africa grant opened on Aug. 26.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: Robert “Jim" Shultz, National Park Service (NPS) Branch of Wildland Fire Qualifications and Training Program manager, has been named as the NPS Wildland Fire Operations Program leader in the NPS Branch of Wildland Fire. Jim fills the position left vacant in March 2021 when Chad Fisher became Branch Chief.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Bay chiropractor was sentenced today to 14 months in federal prison for taking kickbacks from Pacific Hospital - a corrupt medical center in Long Beach whose owner was later imprisoned - and for soliciting kickbacks from another Southern California hospital.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on Farm Fresh Packers LLC, Pompano Beach, Fla., for violating the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA). These sanctions include barring the business and the principal operators of the business from engaging in PACA-licensed business or other activities without approval from USDA.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: A FEMA disaster recovery center will open in University City (St. Louis County) on Friday, August 26 to provide one-on-one assistance to people directly affected by the July 25-28 flooding and severe storms.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Aug. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: A federal grand jury recently returned a four-count indictment charging Treston Isiah Bickham, age 30, of Fluker, Louisiana, with kidnapping, carjacking, using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By Press release submission | Aug 26, 2022
Scalise Statement on Fauci Retirement
By Press release submission | Aug 26, 2022
Comer, Scalise, Jordan: D.C.’s Vaccine Mandate Locks Students Out of Classrooms
By DOE Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
Release: 54 Universities and 11 National Labs Will Work Across 34 States and D.C. to Research Clean Energy Technologies and Low-Carbon Manufacturing
By Press release submission | Aug 26, 2022
Cloud: Big Tech Prioritizing Abortion Coverage Over Paid Family Leave
By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: Queens, N.Y. -Chris Allieri and the NYC Plover Project received the national George and Helen Hartzog Award for Outstanding Volunteer Excellence on Aug. 24 at the ceremony to Celebrate America’s National Parks and the Dedication of Those Who Serve.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Last week, Michael John Dean Nopah, 42, of Parker, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge John J. Tuchi to 70 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Twenty-five months of Nopah’s federal sentence was ordered to run consecutive to a California sentence he is currently serving. Nopah previously pleaded guilty to Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today issued the following statement on President Biden’s signing of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 into law...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that RAJHNI YANKANA, 27, of Bridgeport, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to a charge stemming from his fraud against Amazon.com, Inc. (“Amazon").
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: Queens Man Pleads Guilty to Attempting to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: Defendant Recorded Acts on Cellphones, Claimed to be “Training" Victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The president and treasurer of a Super PAC was sentenced today to 14 months in prison for scheming to lie to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) about the true identities of donors.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to 140 months in prison for possessing several Glock switches, or autosear kits, that convert handguns into fully automatic machineguns, as well as a Glock handgun that he used protect his marijuana-distribution efforts.
