News from December 2022
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Very good to see everyone here this afternoon.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Below is a statement from Chairman David Scott on Congressional passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) released the following joint statement today after introduction of the fiscal year 2023 omnibus funding package, which included commonsense bills to protect consumers and promote the economy.
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today reiterated the need for oversight and accountability of the Biden Administration’s hazardous withdrawal from Afghanistan last August.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the passage of the bipartisan Low Power Protection Act out of the House...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced today it has secured a settlement agreement with the Okaloosa County School District in Florida to resolve its investigation into allegations of physical and verbal abuse and discriminatory use of seclusion and restraint on students with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Ocenture LLC, a privately held company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and its subsidiary, Carelumina LLC (collectively, “Ocenture"), have agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations that they caused the submission of false claims to Medicare by paying and receiving kickbacks in connection with genetic testing samples.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging six Baltimore men for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang. The indictment, which was returned on Dec. 15, 2022 and unsealed today, charges the following defendants.
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A known drug dealer from Umatilla County, Oregon was sentenced to federal prison today after he was convicted at trial on multiple felony drug and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Michael Kornaker, 52, of North Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud and violation of supervised release, was sentenced to serve 28 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A North Providence woman convicted of defrauding multiple publicly-funded programs was sentenced on Tuesday to eighteen months in federal prison for making false statements when applying for a Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed mortgage, a Small Business Association (SBA) loan, and for fraudulently applying for government-funded COVID unemployment benefits, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: A romance scammer with ties to a Nigerian organized crime syndicate was sentenced today to more than three years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Leigha Simonton.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement on the passage of the bipartisan Low Power Protection Act out of the House...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced that the Biden-Harris Administration has awarded $273.9 million from the new Rural Surface Transportation Grant Program (Rural) to help communities around the United States complete transportation projects that will increase connectivity, improve safety and reliability, support regional economic growth, and improve the quality of life for people living in rural areas.
By US DOT Newswire Report | Dec 26, 2022
The U.S Postal Service (USPS) announced Tuesday an investment into a fleet of approximately 66,000 electric vehicles, made possible in part by a $3 billion dollar congressional contribution from the Inflation Reduction Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - A criminal complaint was unsealed today charging Edward Kelley, 33, of Maryville, TN, and Austin Carter, 26, of Knoxville, TN, with conspiracy, retaliating against a federal official, interstate communication of a threat, and solicitation to commit a crime of violence. Kelley and Austin...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced that its Build America Bureau (Bureau) has provided a $27.5 million Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing (RRIF) loan for a portion of the $649 million Double Track Project along a 26.6-mile segment of the South Shore Line between Gary and Michigan City, Indiana.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Gary Peters and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell announce funding for the Safeguarding Tomorrow Revolving Loan Fund grant program. (FEMA photo by Graham Haynes)
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging BEVELYN BEATTY WILLIAMS and EDMEE...
