News from December 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Special Committee on Aging Chair Bob Casey, D-Pa., today hailed new consumer protections proposed by the Biden administration that would shield seniors seeking Medicare Advantage plans from deceptive marketing practices that have dramatically increased in recent years.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced today it has secured a landmark agreement to resolve a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit against the City of Hesperia, California, and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. The department’s lawsuit alleged that the City and Sheriff’s Department ...
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
Annual Program Statement grant opened on Dec. 15.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), today announced the launch of four programs that will help build a commercially viable, just, and responsible carbon dioxide removal industry in the United States. The programs, funded with $3.7 billion from...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: On Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022, Leigha Simonton took the oath of office to become the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. Ms. Simonton was nominated by President Joseph R. Biden on Nov. 14, 2022 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate on December 6, 2022.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page proposed rule on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - A federal grand jury has indicted two Memphis business owners with conspiring to defraud the Federal Paycheck Protection Program of over $786,000. United States Attorney Kevin G. Ritz announced the indictment today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Three eighth graders from Heath Middle School (HMS) won this year’s DOE West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl t-shirt design contest.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: Seattle - A 44-year-old resident of Dayton, Nevada, who previously resided in Burlington, Washington, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to production of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Between 2014 and 2020, John Holcomb made sexually explicit videos of a young...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Giovani Orozco Ramirez has been sentenced for drug trafficking activities that put large quantities of methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine, and firearms within reach of his young children.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former San Luis Obispo County sheriff’s deputy has been indicted on federal criminal charges alleging he abused a county jail inmate by dragging the victim by her hair on the ground from one cell into another jail cell and then obstructing a federal probe into his actions by lying about the incident in an official sheriff’s office report, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that former United States Coast Guard employee BEVERLY MCCRARY was sentenced on December 8, 2022 for engaging in a bribery scheme at a Coast Guard exam center. United States District Court Judge Barry W. Ashe sentenced MCCRARY, age 64, to 54 months’...
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) co-chaired the second meeting today of the Joint Ransomware Task Force (JRTF), an inter-agency body established by Congress to unify and strengthen efforts against the ongoing threat of ransomware. The first JRTF meeting was held in September 2022.
By State Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good evening, everyone. It’s a pleasure to welcome President Nyusi of Mozambique here to the State Department. We are very much looking forward to our collaboration when Mozambique becomes a member of the United Nations Security Council in January, but we’re also strong partners – ...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: BOSTON (Dec. 14, 2022) – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a total of $1 million in grants funded through President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for environmental job training programs in Connecticut. The grants through EPA's Brownfields Jobs Training Program will ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A metro-Atlanta resident who was trafficking nearly one kilogram of methamphetamine through the Middle District of Georgia from an Atlanta source when he attempted to flee police on I-75 was sentenced to serve more than 17 years in federal prison this week for his crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 15, 2022
News Release: Defendant Posted Video of Himself on His Facebook Page.
