News from December 2022
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico - FEMA’s Individuals and Households Program not only provides financial assistance to Hurricane Fiona survivors with disaster-damaged homes, but can also provide financial help to cover other necessary expenses and serious needs not paid by insurance or other sources. Through the Other Needs Assistance (ONA) program, FEMA may provide financial assistance to cover medical, dental, funeral and burial expenses, and transportation assistance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 27-year-old Brownsville man has been ordered to prison for attempting to transport cocaine through a Border Patrol checkpoint, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Lithuanian national STANISLAV TUNKEVIC pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with a scheme to launder fraud proceeds derived from an online vehicle sale scam that generated at least $5.3 million from dozens of defrauded consumers. TUNKEVIC pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cumberland County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for distributing and possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that Audera Lee was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison. Lee, 38, of Farmington, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2021, to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Release: The United States continues to impose costs on Russia for its war of aggression against Ukraine. Russia’s attacks have devastated Ukraine’s critical infrastructure and caused extraordinary death and destruction. Today, we are announcing additional sanctions measures on the Russian Federation and its ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man who has prior felony convictions was sentenced on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Ann R. Traum to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawful possession of six firearms. The firearms included a machine gun, a short-barreled rifle, and unserialized privately made firearms (PMF), sometimes referred to as “ghost guns."
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a five page rule on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency highlighted the recent progress being made in the environmental restoration of the Rouge River Area of Concern, including the imminent completion of several habitat restoration projects.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
The US Interior Department published a three page rule on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: NEW ALBANY, OH - Federal investigators have recovered $88,822 in back wages and liquidated damages for 32 workers at a New Albany golf course and country club where the employer required tipped employees to share tips with managers and, by doing so, lost their ability to claim a tip credit under the law.
By DOE Newswire Report | Dec 16, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office announced the closing of a $2.5 billion loan for new lithium-ion battery cell manufacturing facilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Daniel Scott Crow, a 38-year-old cruise ship employee from Stuart, Fla., has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for enticing an underage girl he met on the ship into performing sexual acts with him and with producing child pornography by recording their sexual interactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CYNTHIA BOWLEY, age 68, of Meraux, pled guilty today to aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns, a violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Michael Wilkerson, 38, of Woonsocket, one of eighteen individuals arrested in October 2020 as the result of a wide-ranging FBI Safe Streets Task Force Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation into the trafficking of drugs and firearms in four Rhode Island cities pleaded guilty today to federal cocaine trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Release: Ten years ago today, respected Lao civil society leader Sombath Somphone was abducted from a police checkpoint in Vientiane, Laos. The United States remains deeply concerned over his fate, the lack of progress by the Government of Laos in resolving his disappearance, and holding those responsible for his abduction accountable.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: A Southern California woman pleaded guilty yesterday to her involvement in an investment fraud scheme that caused more than $2.6 million in losses to investors.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire Report | Dec 16, 2022
To celebrate the shortest day of the year, and to take advantage of a natural phenomenon, the National Park Service recently announced three days of Winter Solstice walks at Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 15, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the appointment of new members of the USDA/1890 Task Force, which seeks to strengthen the partnership between USDA and the 1890 land-grant universities.
