News published on Federal Newswire in February 2022

News from February 2022


The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Secretary Antony J. Blinken With David Muir of ABC World News Tonight

News Release: QUESTION: Secretary Blinken, thank you for joining us here tonight. I want to get right to what was reported late today from Russian state news, reports that those Russian separatists in those two regions inside Ukraine that Vladimir Putin declared as independent, that those separatists have now made ...


News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Nicholas Primo (35, Tampa) has pleaded guilty to distributing a substance that contained a mixture of heroin and fentanyl. Primo faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.


The US Environmental Protection Agency published a three page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: BOISE - A Caldwell woman was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison for bank fraud.



Transportation Department discusses Notice of Noise Exposure Map Update on Feb. 25

The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Joint Statement of the United States – Ecuador Trade and Investment Council

On February 15 and 16 the United States and Ecuador held the fourth meeting of the United States-Ecuador Trade and Investment Council (TIC).


News Release: Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta announced at a webinar today two new training and technical assistance (TTA) resources from the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (OVW): the National Violence Against Women Law Enforcement Training and Technical Assistance Consortium (LETTAC) and the Domestic Violence Resource for Increasing Safety and Connection (DV RISC).


Justice Department discusses Importer of Controlled Substances Application: Lyndra Therapeutics on Feb. 25

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Justice Department Sues to Block UnitedHealth Group’s Acquisition of Change Healthcare

News Release: The Department of Justice, together with Attorneys General in Minnesota and New York, filed a civil lawsuit today to stop UnitedHealth Group Incorporated (United) from acquiring Change Healthcare Inc. (Change). The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, alleges that ...


New York Man Detained in Rhode Island on Drug Trafficking and Conspiracy Charges

News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A New York man who allegedly fled federal and state law enforcement by running onto an Interstate Rte. 95 offramp as officers and agents attempted to arrest him on drug trafficking charges has been ordered detained in federal custody following an initial appearance in U.S. District Court, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.


News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Steven Arthur Martis, 77, of Bullhead City, Arizona, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Diane J. Humetewa to 21 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. On Nov. 18, 2021, a jury convicted Martis of one count of communicating an interstate threat to kill or harm Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICKEY JOHNSON was convicted yesterday of threatening a federal official and making interstate threats, following a one-week jury trial before the Honorable Lewis A. Kaplan. JOHNSON threatened to kill United States Senator Joe Manchin and Fox News television hosts Greg Gutfeld and Laura Ingraham in direct messages and publicly posted videos on Instagram.


USTR Releases 2021 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy

The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) today released the findings of its 2021 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy (the Notorious Markets List).


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Feb. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Chairman Menendez Remarks at Cornell University Panel on Migration in the Age of Pandemics

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today participated in Cornell University’s Einaudi Center Lund Critical Debate event entitled “Migration in the Age of Pandemics.”


In Op-Ed, Chairman Menendez Announces Major Legislative Initiative to Reinvigorate U.S.-Colombia Relations

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today published an op-ed in the Miami Herald announcing he will introduce new legislation to drastically strengthen the U.S.-Colombia relationship.


Menendez, Schumer, McConnell, Durbin, Thune, Reed, Inhofe, Brown, Toomey, Risch, Warner, Rubio Message Of Solidarity With The People Of Ukraine

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Senate Republican Whip John Thune (R-S.D.), Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman and Ranking Member Jack Reed (D-R.I.) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Senate Banking Committee Chairman and Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman and Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today released the following joint statement that the U.S. Senate stands in solidarity with the people of Ukraine:


Chairman Menendez Blasts Senate Republicans’ Partisan Posturing as Russian re-invasion of Ukraine Looms

U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement in response to Senate Republican’s introduction of a partisan Russia sanctions package: