News from January 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - United States Attorney Corey F. Ellis announced today that Dashawn Terrell Swygert, 27, of Columbia, was sentenced to more than 12 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to two counts of being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: MOBILE, AL - A Monroeville, Alabama woman was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for conspiracy to commit bribery.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
Release: This week, we reflect upon the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and our efforts at the U.S. Department of State to live up to his vision for a more peaceful, equitable, and just world. Dr. King’s final Christmas sermon, delivered in 1967, strikes a chord...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Big Stone Gap, Virginia woman, who conspired to traffic more than 500 grams of methamphetamine from Atlanta, Georgia into Southwest Virginia, was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: A federal jury found a man guilty Thursday for severely beating and strangling his pregnant niece in July 2021, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: Texas Man Arrested for Making Election-Related Threats to Government Officials.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
Release: PLATTSBURG, N.Y. -- New state-of-the-art advanced technology computed tomography checkpoint scanners (CT) that provide 3-D imaging have been installed at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints at Ogdensburg (OGS) and Plattsburg International (PBG) Airports.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - FEMA Housing Inspectors are now calling on tornado survivors in middle and western Tennessee to assess damage following the severe weather in December. Residents from a 12-county area designated in the recent federal declaration for middle and west Tennessee are eligible to apply for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Providence man admitted in federal court today that he fraudulently filed an application for unemployment benefits provided for by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, recently welcomed six new committee interns for the spring term.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi - On Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022, a federal jury convicted a Gulfport man for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Brad L. Byerley, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Today, 60-year-old Paul Vernon Hoeffer pled guilty in federal court in Ft. Pierce to making threatening phone calls to two members of Congress and a district attorney.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL: Supporting Efforts to Address Accountability, Justice, and the Rule of Law in Libya. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008545. Catalog of Federal Domestic...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) sent a letterto Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Tracy Stone-Manning and U.S. Department of the Interior Departmental Ethics Office DirectorHeather Gottry, expressing concern over Stone-Manning's compliance with ethical standards. In part, the ranking member wrote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Sergio Lohan (25, Clearwater) to 22 years in federal prison for filming his sexual assault of a minor child using a cellphone. Lohan was also ordered to serve a 20-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender. Lohan had pleaded guilty on Aug. 17, 2021.
By Press release submission | Jan 21, 2022
United States Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo, United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai and United Kingdom Secretary of State for International Trade Anne-Marie Trevelyan today announced the start of bilateral discussions to address global steel and aluminum excess capacity, including the United States’ application of tariffs on imports from the United Kingdom under Section 232 and the UK’s retaliatory tariffs on certain U.S. exports to the UK.
By Press release submission | Jan 21, 2022
In advance of a potential further invasion of Ukraine, Russian intelligence services, mainly the Federal Security Service (FSB), a U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-On Jan. 18, 2022, a Springfield, Oregon man pleaded guilty for distributing marijuana on the dark web and laundering his cryptocurrency proceeds.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 21, 2022
News Release: Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site to Host.
