News from December 2022
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
Release: Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Request for Statements of Interest: FY22 China Programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Miami, Florida, man was sentenced to 72 months in prison for conspiring in a racketeering enterprise to defraud individuals through moving companies located throughout the United States. Identified victims of the fraud lost more than $2.4 million total.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Washington. * City of Walla Walla, Aquifer Storage and Recovery, $1,600,000. * Washington Water Trust, Walla Walla Basin Water Management Decision Support Tool Project, $87,500. The project descriptions and information about the program are available on Reclamation's Drought Response Program's webpage.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP ) contractor team recently recognized project contributions by 14 suppliers by presenting them with Premier Supply Chain Contributor Awards during a ceremony at the Hanford Site.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: * Return to The Civil War.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Mark Totten announced today that the last of seven defendants was sentenced for a retail theft and wire fraud scheme they executed at hundreds of Walmart stores in 38 states. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Jonker sentenced the leader of the conspiracy, Adarius Ferguson...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), the Committee’s Ranking Member, today announced that the U.S. Senate confirmed Ms. Alexis Taylor, of Iowa, to be Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Six individuals were sentenced recently to approximately 31 combined years in prison for taking part in a conspiracy to defraud several retail financing providers through various schemes involving the use of the names and other personal identifying information of over 1,000 identity theft victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: DENVER - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Adetomiwa Seun Akindele, age 37, of Minnesota, has been indicted on 10 counts of wire fraud and 11 counts of money laundering.
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: We are saddened by the tragic loss of life and injuries to sailors in the sinking of HTMS Sukhothai. We extend our sincere condolences to the Royal Thai Navy and to the loved ones of those who lost their lives, and we wish a speedy recovery to those injured. The United States stands ready to assist our Thai allies in the wake of this tragedy.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $1.1 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reimburse the City of Lawrence for the costs of providing meals and food for needy populations during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
Release: Date of action: Nov. 21, 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the House passed H.R. 2617, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023...
By State Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), released the following statement on the critical funding increase for child care included in the end-of-year spending package that cleared the Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that last Thursday, Serhat Gumrukcu, 39, of Los Angeles, California and Berk Eratay, 36, of Las Vegas, Nevada, were charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with a murder-for-hire conspiracy and the January...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
Release: * Fusion Energy Breakthrough: In December, scientists at the National Ignition Facility at DOE’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved fusion ignition , creating more energy from fusion reactions than the energy used to start the process. It was the first time this has ever been achieved in ...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: EM recently awarded performance-based fees payments to 14 of its contractors at sites across the DOE complex, including Hanford, Savannah River, Paducah, Portsmouth, Nevada, Idaho, Los Alamos and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Dec. 15, 2022, Jack D. Vicars, 49, currently of Bluff City, TN, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison by the Honorable Clifton L. Corker, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Greeneville.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), issued the following statement on the Senate’s passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) as part of the year-end funding package. The amendment to the omnibus-offered by Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)-passed by a vote of 73-24.
