News from February 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Oxford, Mississippi - A Greenville man was sentenced today to over 3 years in prison for possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Justice Department today announced that it has filed proposed with two obstetrician-gynecologist (OB/GYN) doctors in Bakersfield, California. The, which are subject to approval by the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, resolve the department’s lawsuits...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 3, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: The Defendants Allegedly Stole, Forged and Distributed Hundreds of Fraudulent COVID-19 Vaccination Cards.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: AUSTIN - A Nigerian citizen and resident of Canada was sentenced today to nearly 14 years in prison for his role in a fraudulent “sweepstakes" scheme with a loss in excess of $260 million.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: LANDER, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management Lander Field Office is seeking input as it begins to analyze potential aerial cheatgrass treatments on public land in Sinks Canyon.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SYDNEY SCALES was sentenced today to 27 years in prison for his role as the leader of a violent drug distribution organization that operated in the West Farms neighborhood of the Bronx, including his use of...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Monte Vista, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management San Luis Valley Field Office (SLVFO) welcomes the public’s input on the current social and economic conditions in areas managed by the field office. Covering approximately 520,677 acres of federal surface and 621,000 acres of federal subsurface mineral estate the SLVFO manages public land in Saguache, Alamosa, Rio Grande, Conejos, and Costilla counties. .
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement regarding the Biden administration’s request for $30 billion.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing, Subcommittee Republican Leader David B. McKinley (R-WV) spoke about the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “Brownfields" program.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on new bipartisan draft legislation seeking to promote competition, innovation, national security, the interests of consumers, and American leadership in the thriving commercial satellite communications industry.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page rule on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Ocala, Florida -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Jeffrey Walt Boston (45, Orlando) has pleaded guilty to possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and possessing with the intent to distribute a mixture and substance containing cocaine. Boston faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set. Boston had been indicted on July 20, 2021.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Kevin Mokhtari (619) 546-8402.

By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on Feb. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: THE CULTURE AT NIH. “The question before this Committee this morning, is whether to create a new agency, ARPA-H, partly driven by the growing concerns as to the culture at NIH. “Given Dr. Lander’s sudden resignation last night, it only raises more questions in my mind as to what is really going on at...

By State Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
Release: Moderator: Good day from the U.S. Department of State’s Asia Pacific Media Hub in Manila. I am the Hub Director, Zia Syed, and I want to thank you all for joining this briefing. Today, we are very pleased to be joined from Washington, D.C., by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs Dan Kritenbrink, and U.S. Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Don Lu.