News from December 2022
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
Industrial Assessment Center Program - Centers of Excellence grant opened on Dec. 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, AZ-A fugitive wanted for his involvement in a criminal drug enterprise was extradited from Mexico and returned to Tucson on Wednesday, November 23.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID McMANUS, 57, of Granby, was sentenced today by U.S. Circuit Judge Sarah A. L. Merriam in Bridgeport to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fraud and tax offenses stemming from his embezzlement of funds from his employer.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 5, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced its new Agricultural Science Center of Excellence for Nutrition and Diet for Better Health (ASCEND for Better Health) in support of President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot effort to end cancer as we know it.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment adding two new defendants to the nine defendants previously charged in relation to a Maryland and California unemployment insurance scheme. The superseding indictment charges the defendants with conspiracy to commit wire...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GLEN CAMPBELL, also known as “Nick," 41, a citizen of Guyana residing in Queens, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 12 months and one day of imprisonment for helping to sell U.S. Savings Bonds that had been stolen from an elderly woman who had purchased the bonds for her grandchildren and other family members.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed a rule that would improve reporting on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) by, among other proposed changes, eliminating an exemption that allows facilities to avoid reporting information ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Suspended plaintiffs’ lawyer Michael John Avenatti was sentenced today to 168 months in federal prison for stealing millions of dollars from his clients - one of whom was a paraplegic with mental health issues - and for obstructing the IRS’s efforts to collect more than $3 million in payroll taxes from an Avenatti-owned coffee business.
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met with UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly and Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office Parliamentary Under Secretary David Rutley today in London. The Deputy Secretary and Foreign Secretary reaffirmed ...
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
The US State Department published a two page notice on Dec. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Dec. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - Today, U.S. District Court Judge R. Austin Huffaker Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama, sentenced defendant Lonnie Mitchell, 36, of Montgomery, Alabama, to 60 years in prison for coercing several victims, including a minor, to engage in prostitution over the course of several years. There is no parole in the federal system. The judge also ordered the defendant to pay over $950,000.00 in restitution to the victims.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement regarding the departure of Trade and Labor Oversight Counsel Kelly M. Fay Rodríguez, who has been appointed to serve as the U.S. Department of State’s Special Representative for International Labor Affairs...
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Kelly M. Fay Rodríguez is the Special Representative for International Labor Affairs. She is a dedicated advocate for workers’ rights and social justice in the United States and abroad. Most recently, she served as Trade and Labor Oversight Counsel for the Democratic majority of the U.S. House of Representatives’...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Dec. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: MR PATEL: Good afternoon, everybody. We will take four questions. The first question goes to Yuka Hayashi with The Wall Street Journal.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on Dec. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met with UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office Permanent Under Secretary Philip Barton today in London. Deputy Secretary Sherman discussed the United States’ unwavering commitment to assist Ukraine ...
By State Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: MR MURRAY: Secretary Blinken, thank you very much for joining us when you’re a little under the weather. I think you’ve got a bit of a cold.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell has sentenced Jose Luis Pinargote-Baquerizo (37, Ecuador) to 16 years and 4 months in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute over 2,700 kilograms of cocaine. Pinargote had pleaded guilty on Aug. 23, 2022.
