News from January 2022
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: DENTON, Texas - New flood maps have been finalized and will become effective on July 19, 2022, for Woodruff County, Arkansas. Residents are encouraged to examine the maps to determine if they are in a low-to-moderate or high-risk flood zone. The current and future Flood Insurance Rate Map can be viewed on FEMA’s Flood Map Changes Viewer at
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. -. Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup that included four Republican bills, all of which passed with bipartisan support. Committee Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement: "While we were unable to come to a compromise on certain...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Honduran national residing in Port Arthur has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Under Secretary Xochitl Torres Small today highlighted the Biden-Harris administration’s first-year accomplishments to help create better market opportunities for rural businesses, their suppliers and their customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GEORGE LEE, 51, of Glastonbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to six months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for filing false tax returns. Judge Bryant also ordered Lee to pay a $5,500 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - At the start of today’s hearing examining excess profits TransDigm Group Inc. received from Department of Defense (DOD) contracts, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a discussion draft of the Fair Pricing with Cost Transparency Act, legislation to ensure the government is paying a fair price on products and services from contractors like TransDigm.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: Brady: Amid $6 Trillion in Spending, Biden, Dems Don’t Spend a Dime on IRS Backlog.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: Previously abused a seven-year old girl and then enticed two girls to send pornographic images of themselves to him.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former professional skateboarder was sentenced today to 97 months in federal prison for selling nearly two pounds of methamphetamine and laundering Bitcoin for the darkweb operations of other drug traffickers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, NY-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Wade J. Paulisick, Jr., 25, of Jamestown, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of acetyl fentanyl, an analogue of fentanyl, was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson of the Northern District of Indiana announced that Rashawn Fowler, 34, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio after pleading guilty to distribution of more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging Javon Jonathan Spencer, 30, a Jamaican national, whose last known address was in Euclid, Ohio, for his role in a conspiracy that allegedly stole more than $250,000 from victims and targeted older Americans in Northern Ohio and elsewhere.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced bipartisan legislation requiring the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide cybersecurity resources to commercial satellite...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in an attempted carjacking in Newark, during which a firearm was discharged, and possessing heroin and cocaine base with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: Inflation Ranks Highest Among Small Business Concerns Since 1981.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - John C. Holliday, of Mill Creek, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - Matthew Ray Lawson, 34, was sentenced today to 50 years in prison without the possibility of parole and ordered to pay $30,000.00 collectively in fines and restitution on three counts of Possession of Child Pornography, four counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse in Indian Country, one count...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: Yohauris Rodriguez Hernandez Arrested for Participating in Scheme to Fraudulently Obtain COVID-19 Unemployment Benefits.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report examining spending and prices for prescription drugs in the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 19, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that BENJAMIN J. BAGALA, age 27, of Santa Rosa, California pleaded guilty and was sentenced for three counts of assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees and one count of depredation against property of the United States. He appeared...
