News from January 2022
By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
Water Conservation Field Services Program: Financial Assistance for Fiscal Year 2022 grant opened on Jan. 13.
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
The Department of the Interior today, in coordination with the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce and the Council on Environmental Quality, invited public comment and announced listening sessions regarding the development of the American Conservation and Stewardship Atlas (Atlas), a new tool that will be used to reflect baseline information on the lands and waters that are conserved or restored.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Yesterday, Justin Ray Mike, 30, of Parker, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to 51 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Mike previously pleaded guilty to robbery.
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to examine the opportunities and challenges for maintaining existing hydropower capacity, expanding hydropower at non-powered dams, and increasing pumped storage hydropower.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Supreme Court reinstated the stay of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) COVID-19 vaccination-and-testing mandate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Pembroke woman pleaded guilty today to Conspiracy to Commit Healthcare Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Henry E. Autrey sentenced Arondo Harris to a term of 41 months in federal prison on Jan. 12, 2022. Harris was convicted by a jury in May of six counts of identity theft. This case is of significance because the identity theft arose in connection with Harris’ filing of counterfeit quit claim deeds with the City of St. Louis Recorder of Deeds Office.
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
U.S. Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) announced $1,500,000 from the Department of Energy for an innovative plastics research project through the West Virginia University Research Corporation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban Chicago nurse removed morphine from bottles prescribed to two patients and replaced it with another liquid, knowing the diluted substance would be dispensed to the patients, according to a federal indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Chicago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Josiah DeJesus, age 20, Jashua Noboa-Nival, age 20, Yeurys Peguero-Rosario, age 22, Ramon Peguero-Rosario, age 19, and Nelson Rivas-Bello, age 27, all of Bronx, New York, were indicted by a federal grand jury for their participation in a mail fraud scheme that targeted older victims and fraudulently induced them to send money through the mail under false pretenses.
By Press release submission | Jan 13, 2022
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a full committee hearing to examine the opportunities and challenges for maintaining existing hydropower capacity, expanding hydropower at non-powered dams, and increasing pumped storage hydropower.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
2022 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF 2022) grant opened on Jan. 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Cordale Antonio Williams, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, First Assistant United States Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the Senate’s failure to pass S.3436, Protecting Europe's Energy Security Implementation Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - James Richard Cutright, of Philippi, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Failed to Report Nearly $1.5 Million in Business Income.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, Ga. - An Albany resident with a prior felony conviction found in illegal possession of a stolen loaded semi-automatic weapon during a car wreck investigation has pleaded guilty to a federal gun charge in a Project Safe Neighborhoods case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Big Stone Gap, Virginia man, who conspired with others to traffic more than 5,000 grams of methamphetamine from Atlanta, Georgia into Southwest Virginia, was sentenced today to 228 months in federal prison.
By Andy Nghiem | Jan 13, 2022
Nine small businesses have received Phase II funding of more than $3 million to continue development of environmental technologies and bring them to market.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RODNEY ROUSSELL (“ROUSSELL"), age 40, of Belle Rose, Louisiana, was charged on January 7, 2022 by a Bill of Information for Bank Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1344(2).
