News from January 2022
By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
Release: Private exporters reported sales of 100,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to Mexico during the 2021/2022 marketing year.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A partnership between the Savannah River Site (SRS) and a local community reuse organization has led to cost savings of nearly $12 million for taxpayers since 2013.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A Fort McDermitt Shoshone Paiute Tribe member was sentenced today to a term of life in prison as to both counts to run consecutively to each other for murdering two women who were also Tribe members.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Detrick Lee Foston, of Martinsburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to four years of probation for his role in a firearms trafficking conspiracy, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM’s Carlsbad Field Office (CBFO) recently awarded the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) prime contractor, or 67% of the available fee for the fiscal 2021 performance evaluation period, which ended Sept. 30.
By John Suayan | Jan 11, 2022
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently provided nearly $5 million in grants to the Wetland Mitigation Banking Program (WMBP) for the establishment of mitigation banks aimed at compensating for negative impacts on U.S. wetlands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a previously convicted sex offender for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Katrina W. Berger.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
Open Justice Project in North Macedonia grant opened on Jan. 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) issued the following statement on President Biden’s remarks on voting rights and the need to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: FRANKFORT, Ky - Disaster survivors from Graves and Warren counties who are rebuilding and repairing their homes after the Dec. 10 tornadoes and severe storms, can visit Lowe’s or Home Depot stores to get free hazard mitigation advice from FEMA mitigation representatives.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Providence man who admitted to participating in two deliveries of around 50 grams of fentanyl each was sentenced today to six years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Paul Gracey, 57, formerly of Vermont, pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to theft of government funds, United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
Release: The vital national interests of the United States are inextricably bound to the fortunes of our closest neighbors in the Americas. To that end, the ability of our democracies to close the gap between what we promise and what we deliver depends in no small part on what we do, together, to make it better.
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
FY 2022 Julia Taft Refugee Fund grant opened on Jan. 11.
By Trina Thomas | Jan 11, 2022
U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) staff of 60,000 employees was recently selected as the 2021 Homeland Security Today’s Person of the Year for its ability to maintain national security in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and humanitarian crises.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
Small Business Innovation Research Program - Phase II grant opened on Jan. 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man who was convicted of committing four armed robberies - including two bank robberies and a robbery of the same Starbucks coffeehouse twice - was sentenced today to 29 years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Jovante Raschod Thomas, a/k/a “Wood," a/k/a “Tae" (40, Pinellas Park), Troy Lydell Mctier Jr. (29, St. Petersburg), Adrian Fulton Ashby, (50, St. Petersburg) Marquesha Dequaila Leseon Isaac a/k/a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Defendant allegedly fraudulently billed customers and evaded taxes by cashing or depositing over $1.45 million in customer payments into personal bank accounts.
