News from January 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement, as prepared, during a Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship hearing on "For the Rule of Law, An Independent Immigration Court"...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement on President Biden’s one year of catastrophic failures...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Suffern, New York, insurance producer was arrested today for failing to pay $29.5 million dollars in payroll and unemployment taxes, and benefit plan fraud, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
U.S. Mission to France - PAS Annual Program Statement 2021 grant opened on Jan. 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - A federal district judge in Fort Lauderdale has sentenced three South Florida residents to prison terms for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud the State of Michigan of more than $250,000 in unemployment insurance benefits.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: Guaynabo, Puerto Rico - The recent number of projects that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has obligated to the Government of Puerto Rico total more than 9,100. This represents over $25.9 billion in federal funds for Puerto Rico's recovery. Hundreds of projects have already been completed while others are in the bidding and procurement stages.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: SAN DIEGO - San Diego’s Balboa Pharmacy has paid $105,000 to resolve allegations that it illegally dispensed opioids and other dangerous drugs to its patients, according to a settlement agreement signed by Balboa Pharmacy and the United States. The settlement stems from the United States’ continued efforts...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez has sentenced 29-year-old Samuel Baptiste to 15 years in federal prison for attempting to materially support terrorism. The judge ordered that the sentence run consecutive to the 80-month sentence that Baptiste is currently serving for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
Release: By Cindy Long. Administrator, Food and Nutrition Service. USDA's Food and Nutrition Service is committed to providing equitable access to food to all Americans, but racial disparities in food security still exist. With the rate of food and nutrition insecurity higher among Black, Hispanic, and Native...
By State Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
Release: U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria Mary Beth Leonard and Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed signed a bilateral cultural property agreement on Jan. 20, 2022, in a ceremony in Abuja attended by members of the Nigerian government and the U.S. Mission.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: 2022 marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon ®, an international collegiate competition that has helped popularize renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies, while training the clean energy workforce of tomorrow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Quenton Dodson, 33, of South Burlington, Vermont, has been charged by criminal complaint in federal court with one count of distribution of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $3 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the South Central Planning and Development Commission, Houma, Louisiana, to capitalize and administer a Revolving Loan Fund.
By State Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon. First, let me say how honored I am by the presence of so many friends, colleagues, leaders across different communities here in Germany, and also leaders in the partnership that links our two countries. I’m grateful to all of you for being here, grateful for this opportunity ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: Today, Secretary Gina Raimondo held a virtual introductory meeting with the Minster of Trade of Turkey, Mehmet Muş. The Secretary and Minister Muş reaffirmed their commitment to deepening engagement aimed at increasing bilateral trade between the U.S. and Turkey. During the meeting, Secretary Raimondo ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment today against Desmond Lamar Divine, 20, of Fresno, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Scam artists, identity thieves and other criminals are already descending on survivors from the deadly tornado outbreak that hit western and middle Tennessee on Dec. 10-11, 2021. Federal and state emergency management officials urge residents to watch for and report any suspicious activity.
By Trina Thomas | Jan 20, 2022
Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on Jan. 6 announced through a press release that Dr. Emily Blanchard will be joining the Department of State as chief economist.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: Registered Sex Offender Sentenced to Prison for Possessing Images of Child Sexual Abuse.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 20, 2022
News Release: Scientists track and monitor the circulation of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, using methods based on a laboratory technique called polymerase chain reaction (PCR ). Also used as the “gold standard" test to diagnose COVID-19 in individuals, PCR amplifies pieces of DNA by copying them numerous...
