News from January 2022

By USDA Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022 - 10:00 AM ET.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Oscar Marsiglia Barrios (54, Colombia) pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute cocaine knowing and intending it to be imported into the United States (U.S.). Marsiglia Barrios faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: By Kathryn Coulter Mitchell, Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Under Secretary for the Science and Technology Directorate
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky. - Just 30 days after President Joe Biden declared a major disaster for the Commonwealth of Kentucky following the Dec. 10 tornadoes and flooding, more than $25 million in federal assistance has been provided by FEMA and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to support disaster recovery here.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that YUDITH REYNOSO-HICIANO, a/k/a “La Classica," was convicted today in Manhattan federal court of kidnapping conspiracy and kidnapping. REYNOSO-HICIANO was convicted after a four-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Denise L. Cote.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: MOBILE, AL - A Mobile man was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Reaffirms commitment to work for justice for tribal members.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Pursuant to the plea agreement, on Jan. 30, 2019, Ellison was driving in Washington, Missouri and committed several traffic violations. A Washington Police department patrol officer conducted a traffic stop of Ellison's vehicle upon observing these traffic violations.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Natasha Wolterman, 40, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Omaha for Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. United States District Court Judge Brian C. Buescher sentenced Wolterman to 10 years’ imprisonment. There is no parole in the federal system. After completing her term of imprisonment, Wolterman will be required to serve a 5-year term of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new data from Phase 7 of the Small Business Pulse Survey (SBPS), which measures the effect of changing business conditions during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as other major events such as hurricanes on our nation’s small businesses. SBPS complements existing Census Bureau data by providing detailed, near real-time information on challenges faced by small businesses.

By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh issued the following statement on the Supreme Court ruling on the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s emergency temporary standard on vaccination and testing...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Brenton Cronebach, 56, of Dover, Ohio, was sentenced today by Judge Dan Polster to 121 months in prison and five years of supervised release after Cronebach pleaded guilty to transportation of child pornography in September of 2021.

By US DOT Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) awarded $5 million to educate the next generation of pilots and other aviation professionals. The Aircraft Pilots Aviation Workforce Development Grants were awarded to accredited higher-education institutions, high schools, state and local governments and flight schools.

By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
Release: QUESTION: Secretary of State Antony Blinken joins us from the State Department. Secretary, welcome. Good to speak again.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Brian Thomas Badgley, 37, of Waterbury, Vermont appeared yesterday in United States District Court in Burlington for an arraignment on a two-count indictment charging him with tampering with a consumer product, in violation...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) led a letter signed by every Republican Committee Member demanding a hearing with U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona to answer for his role in supporting and encouraging efforts to label concerned parents as domestic terrorists.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal grand jury on Wednesday returned an indictment charging two Providence men in connection with the alleged robbery and assault of a U.S, Postal Service carrier and the alleged trafficking of more than 500 grams of cocaine, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By State Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
Release: QUESTION: Secretary of State Antony Blinken joins us from the State Department. Secretary, welcome. Good to speak again.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2022
News Release: A six-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Manuel Moretti with Mann Act crimes stemming from the coercion of a 13-year-old child to engage in sexual activity with him on at least four occasions. Moretti was arrested today and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States Magistrate Judge Vera M. Scanlon.