News from February 2022
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), today sent a letter to governors across the country reaffirming their commitment to ensuring the proper implementation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Keechant L. Sewell, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By Fed Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced its approval of the application by Origin Bank, Choudrant, Louisiana, to establish a branch in Farmers Branch, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and U.S. Attorney Timothy M. O’Shea of the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that David Stone III, 29, St. Paul, Minnesota, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 10 years in federal prison for his leadership role in a fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine conspiracy.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2022
In nature, DNA contains the instructions for the cells that allow life to grow, thrive, and reproduce. Researchers see great potential in DNA for its ability to direct assemble of a wide range of customized artificial materials.
By Press release submission | Feb 17, 2022
Lasers are often used to look at objects in microscopes. But even the best laser has “quantum noise” that makes a picture blurry and hides the details.
By State Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
U.S. Embassy Burkina PAS Annual Program Statement grant opened on Feb. 17.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JON VERDIN, age 25, of Terrebonne Parish, La., was charged Feb. 11, 2022, in a three (3) count indictment by a federal grand jury with narcotics and firearms charges for possessing over a kilogram of fentanyl and four firearms. Specifically, the federal grand jury charged...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Steve Anthony Shand, 47, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of human smuggling, announced Acting United States Attorney Charles J. Kovats.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 14, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey L. Viken.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Attempted Possession of Child Pornography was sentenced on February 4, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Dillon Morgan, 24, of Scottsbluff, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Chief United States Chief District Judge Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Morgan to 120 months’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After his release from prison, he will begin a five-year term of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Republican Leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee called on the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) ...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
The US Homeland Security 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: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Wendy W. Berger has sentenced David Milton Kissner, Jr. (34, Orlando) to 80 years in federal prison for two counts of using children to produce child sexual abuse materials and one count of distributing this material over the internet. Kissner was also ordered to serve a 15-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender. Kissner had pleaded guilty on October 8, 2021.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX), Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Vern Buchanan...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former federal correctional officer was sentenced today to 26 months in prison for accepting approximately $50,000 in cash bribes in exchange for delivering contraband to federal inmates, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Tewksbury real estate developer was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for defrauding the government of more than $480,000 by engaging in a multi-year tax evasion scheme.
