News from January 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, tax preparer today admitted using false information to increase her clients’ tax refunds and filing her own false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 6, 2022
News Release: Funding Will Expand Access to High-Speed Internet, Clean Water and Dependable Electric Power in People’s Homes and Businesses in Rural America
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2022
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced today it has awarded two additional grants as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2022
The report, mandated by the ACCESS BROADBAND Act as part of the Consolidated Appropriation Act of 2021.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2022
BIS is releasing these two documents as part of its commitment to the policy of advancing equity in Executive Order 13985 of January 20, 2021.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2022
“Too many Americans, especially those living on reservations and in Tribal communities, lack reliable, high-speed broadband—if they are even lucky enough to have internet at all.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2022
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo today announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding American Rescue Plan statewide planning grants to five territories to support territory-wide economic development planning efforts.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2022
The third-quarter deficit was 3.7 percent of current-dollar gross domestic product, up from 3.5 percent in the second quarter.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2022
The “third” estimate of GDP released today is based on more complete source data than were available for the "second" estimate issued last month.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2022
Personal income increased $90.4 billion (0.4 percent) in November according to estimates released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (tables 3 and 5).
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2022
Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 37 states and the District of Columbia in the third quarter of 2021.
By Press release submission | Jan 6, 2022
The U.S. net international investment position (IIP), the difference between U.S. residents' foreign financial assets and liabilities.
By State Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: OMAHA, Neb. - National Park Service (NPS) Regional Director Bert Frost announced the selection of Kristen Hase as superintendent of Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve comprising almost 11,000 acres across east-central Kansas. She is currently the resources manager at Tallgrass National Prairie Preserve where she works closely with the preserve’s primary partner, The Nature Conservancy. She will assume her new permanent role on January 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Bertie County man was sentenced to 300 months in prison for trafficking cocaine, cocaine base, and methamphetamine and conspiring to commit money laundering in northeastern North Carolina. On Aug. 2, 2021, Levar Anthony Leary pled guilty or was convicted of the charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The Bureau of Justice Assistance has awarded the Woonsocket Police Department a three-year, $819,109 grant to implement their proposed Law Enforcement Assisted Deflection, Engagement, and Retention (LEADER) in Treatment program, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: A Michigan man has been sentenced to more than two decades in federal prison after admitting that he produced child pornography while previously residing in Savannah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Alicia Raynor, 44, of Westfield, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud and filing a false tax return, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison and 18 months home detention by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $799,625.27.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Wise, Virginia man was sentenced yesterday to 135 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 5, 2022
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, U.S. Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Wilmington returned an indictment yesterday charging James Pickett, 24, of Bear, Delaware, with distributing and possessing child pornography between August and December 2021.
