News published on Federal Newswire in February 2022

News from February 2022


McCaul, Rogers Urge Harsher Sanctions on Russia

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and House Armed Services Committee Lead Republican Mike Rogers (R-AL) released a statement calling for harsher sanctions on Vladimir Putin following his renewed invasion further into Ukraine.


'We work to build a better America': USDA hires new personnel

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed additional Farm Service Agency and Rural Development state directors.


News Release: EL PASO - On Feb. 23, a Mexican national was sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in a large marijuana conspiracy.


DOS-ECA grant application closes on May 16

FY 2022 Creative Arts Exchange grant opened on Feb. 24.


News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Larry Gardner, a/k/a “Little Larry," age 40, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to five years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute heroin and other drugs in the Baltimore area.


News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of making a threat by telephone to destroy a building, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Thousands of Mexican GM employees participate in collective bargaining vote after labor rights denial in 2021

Earlier this month, over 5,000 workers participated in a historic union election at the General Motors facility in Silao, Mexico.



Man Indicted for Trafficking Over 220 Pounds of Methamphetamine

News Release: PHOENIX - Jose Eleno Luna-Arellanes aka Carlos Luna Arellanes has been indicted on one count Conspiracy, one count of Illegally Conducting an Enterprise, and one count of Sale or Transportation for Sale of Dangerous Drugs (methamphetamine).


News Release: Students from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) are helping the Office of Legacy Management (LM) evaluate sources of groundwater contamination at LM’s Riverton, Wyoming, Processing Site.


Salisbury Man Sentenced to Five Years in Federal Prison for Large-Scale Heroin Distribution Operation on the Dark Web

News Release: This Case is a Result of Work by the Dark Market and Digital Currency Crimes (DMDCC) Task Force Which Targets the Use of Dark Net Marketplaces and Digital Currencies to Facilitate Criminal Activities.


Brunei National Day

News Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Brunei Darussalam and send you best wishes as you celebrate Brunei’s National Day.


News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA - Days away from the one-year anniversary of the House’s passage of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARP), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) hailed the package’s inclusion of a solution to the worsening multiemployer pension crisis. The ARP contained Chairman...


TSA establishes first international location for TSA PreCheck® in The Bahamas

Release: WASHINGTON - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) expanded TSA PreCheck® to an international location for the first time at a ribbon cutting ceremony earlier with the Commonwealth of The Bahamas at Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau.


Justice Department publishes notice on Feb. 24

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Feb. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


DOL finds systemic wage violations at caregiving facilities

The U.S. Department of Labor recently uncovered several systemic wage violations in three states.



Arizona graduates of EPA program lauded for 'resolving environmental challenges'

Nine Arizona residents have graduated from a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) job-training program for people from communities near a Superfund site and now have the skills needed to conduct environmental cleanup work.


Plaquemines Parish Man Sentenced for Possessing Firearm with Fifty Round Extended Magazine

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that MIKAL BLACK, age 24, a resident of Ironton, Louisiana, was sentenced on Feb. 22, 2022 to fifty-seven (57) months of imprisonment for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2). Upon release from imprisonment, BLACK will serve three (3) years of supervised release and pay a $100 mandatory special assessment fee.


News Release: ROANOKE, Va. - DeAngelo Lewis Ramsey, 22, was sentenced this week to 47 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and for violating his terms of supervised release.


News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Darren Anthony Burnett, of Hagerstown, Maryland, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.