News published on Federal Newswire in December 2022

News from December 2022


Release: Open Letter from Ambassador Beth Van Schaack to the People of Liberia.


Arizona Man Arrested For Point-Of-Sale Cyber Intrusions

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the arrest of FOSTER COOLEY for charges in connection with a scheme to conduct...


News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Dr. Martin Evers, age 64, of Pike County, Pennsylvania, was found guilty on December 5, 2022, for unlawfully distributing controlled substances resulting in death, after a three-week trial before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani.


Adair: California businessman 'knowingly persisted in their false assertions'

Two California businessmen and their company pleaded guilty Dec. 1 following an investigation led by Homeland Security Investigations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Criminal Investigation Division and Office of the Inspector General, and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control.


Buttigieg: 'We’re working with Tribal leaders to identify and invest in projects with the greatest community impact'

The Biden Infrastructure Law makes funds available to Tribes for transit programs and highway safety initiatives.


Connors: Man sentenced for 'vicious, premeditated attack' on Hawaii corrections officers

A man awaiting trial on a federal charge for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon was sentenced Dec. 7 to 84 months in prison for assaulting two federal officers at the federal detention center in Honolulu March 23, 2020.


Blinken: Griner on way home ‘after months of wrongful detention in Russia’

Brittney Griner, an American basketball player arrested in Russia for possession in February, was released Dec. 8.


News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dominick Mickens, of Hagerstown, Maryland, was sentenced today to 63 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.



Wetzel County man sentenced for firearms charge

News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Joseph Allen Sams, of Jacksonsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 18 months of incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


News Release: MIAMI - Sean Pierre Jackson, 33, of Palm Beach County, Fla., was sentenced today to 36 months in prison and three years of supervised release by U.S. District Judge Robin L. Rosenberg for fraudulently obtaining more than $800,000 in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDL) loans. These loans are guaranteed by the Small Business Administration under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.


News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former United States Postal Service mail carrier pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for stealing debit cards containing unemployment insurance benefits while on duty and giving them to an accomplice in exchange for cash payments and gifts.


BLM donates fire engine to Fort Bidwell Volunteer Fire Department

News Release: CEDARVILLE, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management has transferred ownership of a wildland fire engine to the Fort Bidwell Volunteer Fire Department, a small Modoc County department that stands ready to assist the BLM and other agencies with wildfire response in remote northeast California, just south of the Oregon border.


Federal Jury Convicts Tennessee Man of First Degree Murder in Death of His U.S. Army Soldier Wife at Fort Campbell

News Release: Paducah, KY - Yesterday, a federal jury convicted a Clarksville, Tennessee man (formerly of Jacksonville, Florida) of first-degree murder, attempted murder, domestic violence resulting in death, violation of a protective order resulting in death, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, and two counts of discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.


News Release: FBI Signs Agreement with Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities.


Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.


Maryland Security Guard Convicted of Tax Evasion

News Release: A federal jury convicted a Maryland security guard today of tax evasion.


Leader Rodgers: “Free Speech is Foundational to America”

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks at today’s Energy and Commerce Committee markup on a Resolution of Inquiry on the Biden administration’s efforts to censor Americans by colluding with Big Tech.


DOT-FRA offers new grant application process starting Dec. 15

FY23 Northeast Corridor Cooperative Agreement to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation Public Law 117-180 grant opened on Dec. 15.


U.S.-China tensions over intellectual theft threatens scientific collaboration

U.S. policies toward China on academic collaboration that focus on intellectual property theft could impact U.S.-China competitiveness, researchers said in a Center for Strategic and International Studies Big Data China event.