News from February 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Natural Resources Committee yesterday held a legislative hearing on H.R. 2021, the Environmental Justice For All Act. The hearing marks the culmination of a historic years-long effort by Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), Rep. A. Donald McEachin (D-Va.), and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) to gather and incorporate public input, both in person and through an innovative online process, into comprehensive environmental justice legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania woman was sentenced today to 42 months in prison for robbing a bank in Ayden, North Carolina. She was also ordered to pay restitution for all the banks. On Nov. 2, 2021, Circe Nena Baez pled guilty to the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Monday, Marcus BlueCloud Querta, 39, of Peach Springs, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 48 months in prison. Querta previously pleaded guilty to assault on a federal officer and admitted to violating the terms of his supervised release in a separate case. Judge Snow sentenced Querta to 37 months in prison for the assault and an additional 11 months for violating his supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of New Florence, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to a total of 60 months in prison followed by 4 years’ supervised release on his conviction of possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
Promoting Justice Sector Independence in Latin America and the Caribbean grant opened on Feb. 16.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) issued the following statement regarding the announcement that Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Steve Dickson is stepping down...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack selected 12 members to serve on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) inaugural Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture to provide input on policy development and to help identify barriers to urban agriculture as USDA works to promote urban farming and the economic opportunities it provides in cities across the country.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, welcomed Secretary Vilsack's announcement on Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities. This will expand markets by investing $1 billion in partnerships to support America’s climate-smart farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Senior U.S. District Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson has sentenced Timothy Richard Ray Riggins, 33, of Moses Lake, Washington, to 70 months in federal prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm and an improvised destructive device. Judge Peterson also ordered Riggins to serve three years on federal supervision after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for 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 heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine conspiracy. Stone pleaded guilty on Nov. 17, 2021 to conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Today, in a demonstration of unity, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley joined U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans and other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to announce their joint efforts to address the violent crime spike occurring in the...
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: QUESTION: (Via translation) Thank you again, Mr. Secretary, for this interview, as you have just held a ministerial meeting to coordinate global efforts in the fight against COVID. Why hold such a meeting at this time? What are the concerns? What commitments were made by the United States and other participants? ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Simarjeet Singh, age 50, of Rochester, New York, pled guilty today to naturalization fraud for providing false identification information during efforts to avoid deportation and become a United States citizen, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Matthew Scarpino, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), Buffalo Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal jury has found an unidentified Jamaican man, who was charged as John Doe, guilty of three counts of obstructing his deportation. Doe faces a maximum penalty of four years in prison for each count. His sentencing hearing has been scheduled for May 16, 2022. Doe had been indicted on Oct. 24, 2019.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
Release: The United States is deeply concerned by the Guatemalan Public Ministry’s unacceptable mistreatment and persistent abuse of current and former independent prosecutors. Under the leadership of Attorney General Consuelo Porras, the Public Ministry used searches and arrests based on sealed indictments and...
By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2022
The U.S. Census Bureau today announced the beginning of data collection for Phase 8 of the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS).
By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2022
Congress designated March as Irish-American Heritage Month in 1991 and the president issues a proclamation commemorating the occasion each year.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Rep. Jason Smith: More COVID money won’t cover up Biden’s failures.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Distributed Fentanyl to a Victim and Death Resulted from the Victims Use of the Drug; Keys Also Admitted the He Illegally Possessed a Loaded Ghost Gun.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: The Aviation Manufacturing Jobs Protection (AMJP) program has now announced more than $673 million in payroll protection support, protecting nearly 31,000 manufacturing jobs nationwide
