News published on Federal Newswire in January 2022

News from January 2022


BLM seeks input on proposed trail development in the North Fruita Desert

News Release: Grand Junction, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public input on the draft.


ICYMI: Murray, Burr Introduce Discussion Draft of Bipartisan Pandemic and Public Health Preparedness and Response Bill

News Release: Washington, D.C. - Earlier this week, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Ranking Member, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), released a discussion draft of the Prepare for and Respond to Existing Viruses, Emerging New Threats, and Pandemics...


News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Kathryn Mizelle has sentenced Giovanni Gort (32, Tampa) to 10 years in federal prison for two counts of armed robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. Gort was also ordered to pay $535 in restitution. He had pleaded guilty on Oct. 26, 2021.


Preston County man admits to wire fraud

News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Markitta Miller, of Reedsville, West Virginia, has admitted to wire fraud, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.



Park Hills Missouri man pleads guilty to possession of child pornography

News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Rodney W. Sippel accepted a plea of guilty from Scott E. Reid on today’s date for possession of child pornography. A grand jury in the Eastern District of Missouri previously indicted Reid for the charge. Judge Sippel set sentencing for April 29, 2022.


Little Rock Central High School National Historic Site Visitor Center to temporarily change days of operation

News Release: Beginning Sunday, Jan. 30, visitors to the NHS can expect these changes.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Manison Largo, 42, of Church Rock, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, was sentenced in federal court today to six years and six months in prison for abusive sexual contact with a child. Largo pleaded guilty on Oct. 19, 2021.


News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, published an op-ed in Foreign Policy today on his philosophy regarding ambassador and State Department nominations.



News Release: Worked as contract bookkeeper and wrote unauthorized checks to herself and disguised them as legitimate payments to vendors.


DRL: Supporting Efforts to Promote Freedom of Expression in Morocco

Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL: Supporting Efforts to Promote Freedom of Expression in Morocco. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008560. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number:...


News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Douglas Wright, Jr., 27, of Charlotte, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler today and pleaded guilty to mail fraud, for stealing merchandise from Amazon worth over $273,000, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.


Texas Man Sentenced to Prison for Drug Trafficking Conspiracy in Toledo

News Release: U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that Anthony Robinson, 25, of Katy, Texas, was sentenced on Thursday, Jan. 27, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey J. Helmick to 10 years in prison after Robinson pleaded guilty to a fentanyl drug trafficking conspiracy in the Toledo area.


News Release: United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that ANTWOINE WILLIAMSON, 31, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced for being a felon in possession of a firearm by United States District Court Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal on Jan. 18, 2022. He received 30 months’ imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.


News Release: Indictment Alleges Scheme to Fraudulently Charge Hundreds of Thousands of Mobile Phone Customers for Text-Messaging Services Without Their Knowledge or Consent.


Albert Lea Sex Offender Sentenced to Life in Prison for Sextortion, Online Child Sexual Exploitation

News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An Albert Lea man has been sentenced to life plus ten years in prison for engaging in sextortion and online sexual exploitation of minors. Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Wilhelmina M. Wright sentenced the defendant.



Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Meeting with UK National Security Advisor Lovegrove

Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.


News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: Five fishermen from Maine and one fisherman from New Hampshire, along with a corporation, were charged with conspiracy, mail fraud, and obstruction of justice in connection with a multi-year scheme to sell unreported Atlantic herring and falsify fishing records, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.