News from December 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: A former police chief in Amite City, Louisiana and a former Amite City councilmember were each sentenced yesterday to one year in prison for violating federal election laws as part of a conspiracy to pay, or offer to pay, voters for voting in a federal election.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an charging Kori Ann Moreno (26, Ponte Vedra Beach) with theft of mail over an eight-month period. If convicted, Moreno faces up to five years in federal prison and payment of restitution to the victims in the case. She was arrested on Nov. 29, 2022, by agents from the United States Postal Service - Office of Inspector General and subsequently released on a bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: A Grand Prairie man pleaded guilty Wednesday to lying to the federal government about where his company’s products were manufactured, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, sent a letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm calling for a thorough review of the department’s security clearance processes. This letter was sent in light of recent felony theft charges brought against a senior DOE official.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Tiffany Renea Edmundson, age 34, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, yesterday to 94 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for three armed commercial robberies and for violating her supervised release for a previous federal conviction on the same commercial robbery charge. Judge Grimm also ordered Edmundson to pay $1,035 in restitution to the victim businesses.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, thank you so much for being with us today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Jonathan Corey Daniel, 33, of Monroe, Georgia, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth D. Bell to 210 months in prison and five years of supervised release for trafficking methamphetamine, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In July 2021, Daniel pleaded guilty to methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and aiding and abetting.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grants grant opened on Dec. 1.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will deliver remarks at the J Street National Conference on Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. EST at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today sent a letter to National Institutes of...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Climate Pledge Friendly program on Amazon now includes antimicrobial products like disinfectants and sanitizers certified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Design for the Environment (DfE) program. DfE joins EPA’s Safer Choice and 46 other sustainability certifications in Climate Pledge Friendly, which helps customers shop for over 300,000 more sustainable products in the company’s online store.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Nashville, Tenn., man, Marlon Jermaine Johnson, 39, was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Claria Horn Boom, for possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of methamphetamine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking, and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: MIAMI- A federal magistrate judge has unsealed an 18-count superseding indictment charging West Palm Beach, Fla., resident Dion De Cesare, 52, and five others with operating an illegal sports gambling business, conspiracy to use cellular telephones to carry out gambling and prostitution activities, conspiracy and substantive money laundering, and evading taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: FORT SMITH - A Berryville man was sentenced yesterday to 75 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Receipt of Child Pornography. The Honorable Judge P.K. Holmes, III presided over the sentencing hearing in the U.S. District Court in Fort Smith.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
Notice of Funding Opportunity for the Eastern Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) Center grant opened on Dec. 1.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
Release: Thank you, Elizabeth, for that introduction. And thank you, Austin, and Tony, as well as the teams at New America and the Washington Center for Equitable Growth, for your partnership throughout this effort. Your thought leadership on new economic paradigms that advance individual and family well-being is critical to our shared goals.
By State Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. Before I speak to what we’ve been doing here for the last couple of days, I just want to first congratulate Team USA on a terrific win last night at the World Cup in what was a very competitive match. I also want to salute the performance of the Iranian team, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A former federal probation officer was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to six months in prison for extortion.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2022 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) recently announced that plants could be used to produce nanobodies that quickly block emerging pathogens in human medicine and agriculture. These nanobodies represent a promising new way to treat viral diseases, including SARS-CoV-2.
