News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Robert Humberston (39, Sarasota) has pleaded guilty to unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. Humberston faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: The United States is committed to halting and reversing the loss of biodiversity globally. The global decline of nature represents an existential threat to livelihoods, food systems, and health. As countries meet in Montreal, Canada, at the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on ...
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
DRL FY22 IRF Empower Youth Leaders to Advance Religious Tolerance in Nigeria grant opened on Dec. 16.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Tomorrow's Leaders Undergraduate Study Abroad Oversight, Monitoring and Support grant opened on Dec. 16.
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 US DOT Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In response to a February 2022 inquiry from U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today the Government Accountability Office (GAO) concluded that a December 2021 memorandum from the Federal Highway Administration ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: A former chief financial officer and vice president of finance for a company with offices in Oklahoma made an initial appearance in federal court Wednesday for failing to pay over to the IRS $3.6 million in income and FICA tax withholdings and for embezzling more than $130,000 from the company.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Release: The United States is committed to working alongside our allies and partners to further impose severe consequences on President Putin and his enablers for Russia’s unconscionable war against Ukraine. The Department of State is designating the individuals listed below, as well as an entity owned by one of them, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14024, which authorizes sanctions with respect to specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Notice of Intent to Issue Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) Funding Opportunity Announcement No. DE-FOA-0002922 "Clean Hydrogen Electrolysis, Manufacturing, and Recycling; grant opened on Dec. 16.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: The United States is committed to working alongside our allies and partners to further impose severe consequences on President Putin and his enablers for Russia’s unconscionable war against Ukraine. The Department of State is designating the individuals listed below, as well as an entity owned by one of them, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14024, which authorizes sanctions with respect to specified harmful foreign activities of the Government of the Russian Federation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced the sentencing of a Monroe man for his role in the trafficking of narcotics in the Monroe area. United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty sentenced Oterrance Jackson, 46, of Monroe, Louisiana, to 168 months (14 years) in prison, followed...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Chief U.S. District Judge Randy Crane has sworn in Alamdar S. Hamdani as the 24th presidentially-appointed U.S. Attorney (USA) for the Southern District of Texas (SDTX). He began his duties immediately. As the USA for the SDTX, Hamdani is the chief law enforcement officer responsible for prosecuting and defending the interests of the United States in the seventh largest district in the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Hurricane Nicole survivors and Florida infrastructure and beaches will now be eligible for federal disaster assistance at the direction of President Biden.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Popular RAISE Discretionary Grant Program helps communities build transportation projects that have significant local or regional impact and improve safety and equity.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
Release: The United States is deeply troubled and disappointed by a Turkish court’s verdict against Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, sentencing him to two years and seven months in prison and banning him from political activity. His conviction is inconsistent with respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms ...
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announced that it awarded to nearly 1,500 American undergraduate students from all 50 states the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship. Gilman Scholars are U.S. undergraduate students who qualify and receive Pell Grants ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former United States Postal Service mail carrier was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison for scheming to steal more than $250,000 in unemployment insurance (UI) funds by making false claims of COVID-related job losses and for stealing UI debit cards intended for other people on his mail route.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Dec. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that Jaquez Williams, age 28, from Wilmington was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for two counts of felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge Maryellen Noreika pronounced the sentence.
