News published on Federal Newswire in December 2022

News from December 2022


Transportation Department discusses Airworthiness Directives; MarS A.S. Parachutes on Dec. 2

The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on Dec. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Andrew P. Gordon to 10 years in prison for distributing counterfeit pills that contained fentanyl - a powerful synthetic opioid - that resulted in the overdose death of another person.


News Release: The Justice Department announced that a Mississippi man pleaded guilty in federal court to a hate crime for burning a cross in his front yard with the intent to intimidate a Black family.


Former Senior U.S. Navy Employee Sentenced for Bribery Conspiracy and Lying to Investigators

News Release: The former Director of Operations of the U.S. Navy’s Military Sealift Command (MSC) Office in Busan, South Korea, was sentenced today to five years in prison for his role in a bribery conspiracy and lying to federal investigators.


News Release: Las Vegas -Bureau of Land Management has extended the public scoping period for the Copper Rays Solar Project Environmental Impact Statement and Resource Management Plan Amendment after receiving several requests due to concerns about the scoping period overlapping several major holiday periods. The public scoping period now closes on Jan. 13, 2023.


News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has resolved a claim that the Puerto Rico Department of Education (PRDE) violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) when it failed to reemploy Puerto Rico National Guardsman Sergeant(E-5) Daniel Nazario to his proper...


Corporate Insider Sentenced to 10 Years' Imprisonment for Conspiring with Long Island Boiler Room to Pump and Dump Stock on Unsuspecting Elderly Investors

News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Central Islip, Jeffrey Chartier, a former registered broker who participated in a criminal conspiracy to promote and manipulate the price of shares in publicly traded companies, was sentenced by United States District Judge Joanna Seybert to 10 years’ imprisonment for...


News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Pa Kou Yang, 33, Baraboo, Wisconsin was sentenced on Nov. 17, 2022 by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 60 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute. Yang pleaded guilty to this charge on Aug. 12, 2022.


Grant County man sentenced for methamphetamine charge

News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Steven Leroy Dillow, Jr., of Petersburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 50 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


News Release: The Justice Department announced that a Mississippi man pleaded guilty in federal court to a hate crime for burning a cross in his front yard with the intent to intimidate a Black family.



News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra announced the Biden administration’s notice to unwind the Monkeypox Public Health Emergency in 60 days...


The US Environmental Protection Agency published a seven page rule on Dec. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: HOUSTON - A 36-year-old Sugar Land resident has been taken into custody on charges he fraudulently obtained and laundered more than $500,000, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A convicted felon and documented member of the Crips criminal street gang organization operating in Columbus was sentenced to serve more than ten years in prison for armed drug trafficking.


Notice published on Dec. 2 by Justice Department

The US Justice Department published an eight page notice on Dec. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Dec. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Leaders Rodgers and Guthrie Applaud Passage of the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statements after House passage of H.R. 8876, the Jackie Walorski Maternal and Child Home Visiting Reauthorization Act of 2022...


News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Dec. 2, 2022, Jamaal Parker, also known as “MoneyMaal," 38, of Chattanooga, was sentenced to 290 months in prison by the Honorable Travis R. McDonough, Chief United States District Judge, in the United States District Court at Chattanooga. Parker was ordered to forfeit $21,289.04 in drug proceeds to the United States. Following his imprisonment, Parker will be on supervised release for a period of five years.


The Daily Digest section of the Congressional Record published “CONGRESSIONAL PROGRAM AHEAD” on Nov. 28.