News from January 2022

By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Representatives Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), ranking member and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today sent ...

By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
DRL Seeding Deep Expertise in the Networks of Digital Protection Providers Who Serve Threatened Groups grant opened on Jan. 11.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - A Muskogee, Oklahoma man was sentenced today to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: For Use of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: WINNEMUCCA, Nev. - The Humboldt River Field Office is temporarily closing Water Canyon Campground Road due to treacherous driving conditions. The closure will go into effect Jan. 11, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: U.S. Attorney Dena J. King Reaffirms the Office’s Commitment to Combating Human Trafficking in the Western District.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Nigerian national who was indicted in April 2021 in connection with a large fraud and money laundering scheme pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit, Michigan man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug trafficking crime.

By Zachary Richter | Jan 11, 2022
The Bureau of Reclamation recently initiated the Extraordinary Maintenance (XM) projects application period to address issues regarding aging water and power infrastructure in the Western United States.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Defendant and his coconspirators defrauded Washington of more than $10 million in tobacco excise taxes.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: UC San Diego Health Pays $2.98 Million to Resolve Allegations of Ordering Unnecessary Genetic Testing.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A Chicago attorney used insider information obtained from a friend to purchase shares of an education-technology company before it publicly announced strong quarterly earnings, according to an indictment returned in federal court.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
FY 2022 National Victimization Statistical Support Center grant opened on Jan. 11.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Shirley woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Worcester for her role in a wide-ranging fentanyl, heroin, crack and cocaine trafficking conspiracy.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Matthew “Stacks" Woods, 32, of Indiana, was sentenced in federal court on Jan. 10 to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by means of force, threats, fraud and coercion and aiding and abetting. Woods pleaded guilty on June 8.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- A Huntington woman pleaded guilty today in connection with her role as a money mule in a Nigerian fraud scheme that scammed money from individuals, many of whom were elderly.

By DOE Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant team recently activated a specially designed crane system to practice bringing empty stainless-steel containers inside the plant’s Low-Activity Waste Facility. During operations, moving containers with the remotely operated crane will...
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the schedule for the month of January, 2022.

By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Susan Collins (R-ME), a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, introduced bipartisan legislation that would strengthen requirements for foreign manufacturers...

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 11, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Biden Administration must account for its current COVID-19 spending amidst reports of tens of billions of misused federal taxpayer dollars before requesting further funding, according to a new letter from top Republican leaders of the House Committees on Ways & Means, Budget, and...