News from February 2022
By USDA Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating almost $2 million to Massachusetts as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and to safeguard the U.S. nursery production system. Overall, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dallas Marie Harris, of Inwood, West Virginia, was sentenced today to time served for her role in a drug conspiracy that spanned several states, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for illegally possessing a Smith & Wesson, 40 caliber pistol and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - WILLIAM SHAWN KAYS, 39, of Mustang, has been charged with one count of illegally receiving a firearm while under indictment, announced Robert J. Troester, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member and Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a landmark legislative package that would significantly enhance our nation’s ability to combat ongoing cybersecurity threats...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Robert Shawn Anderson, 52, of the 300 block of Spruce Street in Paxton, Illinois, was sentenced today to 121 months’ imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release, for one count of attempted enticement of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Beaumont man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking and firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2022 The American agricultural industry posted its highest annual export levels ever recorded in 2021, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced today. The final 2021 trade data published by the Department of Commerce this morning shows that exports of U.S. farm and food products to the world totaled $177 billion, topping the 2020 total by 18 percent and eclipsing the previous record, set in 2014, by 14.6 percent.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today delivered remarks on the House floor in support of the Postal Service Reform Act (H.R. 3076), bipartisan legislation he co-authored with Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Approved Fraudulent Invoices Submitted by Co-Conspirators in Two Separate Schemes, Causing the Company to Issue Payments for Goods and Services It Never Received.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Defendant Accused of Pulling Open Door to Let Rioters Inside.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Mexican national man pleaded guilty today to the felony offense of reentry of a removed alien. Sergio Chavez-Nieto, 44, was found guilty by the Court and sentenced to a “time served" sentence, having spent almost three months in federal custody. Chavez-Nieto was subsequently remanded to ICE custody for possible removal proceedings from the United States.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, introduced a landmark legislative package that would significantly enhance our nation’s ability to combat ongoing cybersecurity threats...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Alexander Arguedas Admits Participation in December 2012 Murder of Gary Rodriguez.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The EM Office of River Protection (ORP ), tank waste contractor Washington River Protection Solutions (WRPS), and Washington state officials recently celebrated the startup of the Hanford Site’s new Tank-Side Cesium Removal (TSCR) System.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, PA pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, The Washington Post published an article about a report written by the Defense Department outlining some of the many mistakes made by President Biden and his top advisors at the State Department and the National Security Council (NSC) regarding the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Christine Anders, of Hagerstown, Maryland, and Jackie Devon Thompson, of North Frederick, Maryland, have admitted to drug charges, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Fernando Valley woman pleaded guilty today to federal criminal charges for conspiring to defraud health insurance companies by causing millions of dollars in fraudulent claims to be submitted to provide patients with “free" cosmetic procedures, including Botox injections.
