News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Titusville, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months in jail on her conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT SHANNON, a/k/a “Tank," was sentenced to 260 months in prison today for his participation in a large-scale narcotics trafficking operation that sold kilogram quantities of fentanyl, heroin, and...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Competitiveness Improvement Project Selections Will Lower Costs, Improve Technology, and Reduce Market Barriers for Small- and Medium-Sized Wind Turbines.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending almost $21 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reimburse Tufts University for the cost of testing students, faculty and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man charged in federal court with trafficking cocaine and fentanyl pleaded guilty today to federal drug distribution charges, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a seven page proposed rule on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that the House has passed their bipartisan Countering Human Trafficking Act to enhance our nation’s ability to combat human trafficking.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: - The U.S. Census Bureau today released data from the 2021 Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES) highlighting the industries with the largest total capital expenditures for structures and equipment for companies with employees in 2021. Data are based on the 2022 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KEISHAN WILSON, age 38, of New Orleans, Louisiana pleaded guilty on December 8, 2022, before the Honorable Elon E. Fallon, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Louisiana, to stealing items from the mail she was entrusted to process for delivery as a postal employee. Sentencing is set for March 2, 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A violent gang member and three-time convicted felon from Jackson, Michigan was sentenced to 57 months in prison today for being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: A federal grand jury in Manhattan returned an indictment today charging Samuel Bankman-Fried, aka SBF, 30, of Stanford, California, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission and commit campaign finance violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Mason Morey, age 26, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on a charge of attempted online enticement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - PharmScript of KS, LLC, a long-term care pharmacy in Lenexa, Kansas, has agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations that it violated federal law by dispensing controlled substances to residents in nursing and long-term care facilities without valid prescriptions and that the company was wrongfully reimbursed by the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ― Retail sales (NAICS 44-45) for the nation increased 17.1%, from $5,572.0 billion in 2020 to $6,522.6 billion in 2021, according to new estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2021 Annual Retail Trade Survey (ARTS).
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Grand Junction Field Office has acquired two parcels of land through the Land and Water Conservation Fund, totaling 1,600 acres, in Mesa and Garfield counties. The 960-acre and 640-acre parcels are adjacent to the South Shale Ridge Area of Critical Environmental Concern and the Little Book Cliffs Wild Horse Range.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that defendant RICHARD JONES, of New Orleans, was sentenced on December 8, 2022 by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to 40 months imprisonment, 3 years supervised release, and a mandatory $100 special assessment fee.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced over $15 million in funding for two projects that will reduce the cost of developing geothermal energy by generating at least a 25% improvement in geothermal drilling rates. DOE has set a goal of powering at least 40 million American...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Four defendants involved in two separate counterfeiting cases were sentenced today, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown. United States District Judge David C. Joseph sentenced the four defendants as follows.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
