News published on Federal Newswire in February 2022

News from February 2022


Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Announces Justice Department Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking

News Release: PORTLAND, Maine -- U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland released the Justice Department’s new National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.



Repeat Offender Arrested with 14 Firearms Sentenced in Project Safe Neighborhoods Case

News Release: MACON, Ga. - A convicted felon with a lengthy criminal history who was found illegally in possession of 14 firearms and ammunition was sentenced to prison for his crime.


Release: Private exporters reported the following activity.


Honolulu security company to pay $1.5 million in 'rightfully earned wages' to officers

A Honolulu company was ordered to pay $1.5 million to 171 security officers after a federal investigation determined the company illegally denied workers overtime pay.


USDA-NRCS offers new grant application process starting Feb. 1

Conservation Collaboration Grant Agreements Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Announcement for Program Funding &- NORTH DAKOTA grant opened on Feb. 1.


Matt Murray

News Release: Matt Murray was appointed as the U.S. Senior Official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in February 2022. In this role, he coordinates U.S. participation in APEC and also oversees the Office of Economic Policy in the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.


DOL grants to provide training, employment services to help veterans 'overcome obstacles'

Funding from the U.S. Department of Labor will help organizations provide training and employment services to veterans at risk of or experiencing homelessness.


De Pere Man Indicted for Paycheck Protection Program Fraud

News Release: United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Feb. 1, 2022, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Chad M. Schampers (age: 38) of De Pere, Wisconsin, with one count of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing to consider the nominations of Shalanda Young to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Nani Coloretti to...


DOS-TZA offers new grant application process starting Feb. 1

2022 Tanzania Academy for Women Entrepreneurs Implementing Partner grant opened on Feb. 1.


January: 1,367 press releases published by U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys

There were 1,367 press releases published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys in January.


Two Bronx Men Charged With 2014 Harlem Murder

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Timothy Foley, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division (“DEA"), and Ricky J. Patel, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Department...


DOS-AZE grant application closes on March 1

Track II Programs grant opened on Feb. 1.


Meeks, Bera, Chabot Issue Statement on the One-year Anniversary of the Burma Coup

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) and Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) and Steve Chabot (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, released the following joint statement on the one-year anniversary of the Burma coup...


News Release: ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - Fred J. Federici, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, has announced that Ready Pharmacy has agreed to a $400,000 settlement relating to civil claims brought by the Department of Justice on behalf of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) El Paso Division Regulatory Diversion Group.


Springfield Woman Pleads Guilty to Unemployment Fraud Related to COVID-19 Pandemic

News Release: Defendant and co-conspirator submitted 100 PUA claims in others' names resulting in more than $1.2 million in payments.


There were five press releases published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service in January.


Attorney General Merrick B. Garland Announces Justice Department

News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today released the Justice Department’s new National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.


News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM is upgrading a historic reactor at Oak Ridge to keep the facility in a safe mode until its demolition is scheduled.