News from January 2022
By DOE Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: On December 9, 2021, Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm announced Patricia A. Hoffman, Acting Assistant Secretary of the Office of Electricity (OE), as one of five U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) executives selected to receive a 2021 Meritorious Executive Presidential Rank Award.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: Orlando, FL - A North Carolina man pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to defraud the United States by promoting a nationwide tax fraud scheme and assisting in the preparation and filing of false tax returns for the scheme’s participants.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: Carson City, Nev. - Weather conditions permitting, the Bureau of Land Management Carson City District is scheduled on or about Thurs, Jan. 6, 2022, to begin burning slash piles generated from a 11-acre fuels reduction project off Foothill Road near Faye-Luther Trailhead in Alpine County, CA. A second burn may occur after if weather permits, to burn piles generated from a 3-acre fuels reduction project in the Virginia Highlands near Graves Road in Storey County, NV.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Jacky Rosen (D-NV), a member of both the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: Charges Arise from Newbo Evolve Financing.
By State Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, joined by U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel, will meet virtually with Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa and Defense Minister Kishi Nobuo on January 6, for the 2022 U.S.-Japan Security Consultative Committee (“2+2") Meeting. The 2+2 Meeting has long been a high-level forum for U.S.-Japan foreign and defense policy cooperation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: Orlando, FL -United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces today that Central Medical Systems, LLC, Joan Harley, and Alan Trent Harley have agreed to pay the United States $600,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by participating in a scheme to defraud Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Hunter VanPelt has been sentenced to prison for bank fraud related to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) when she obtained over $6 million in fraudulent proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: Erek L. Barron, the United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced today several new senior supervisory appointments. The following personnel changes were made following an office-wide internal review and a competitive interview and assessment process.
By State Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
U.S. Embassy Lilongwe Public Diplomacy Section Annual Program Statement grant opened on Jan. 4.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted illegally possessing a firearm, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: Washington - “Today, the U.S. Trade Representative announced that the United States has prevailed in the first dispute settlement panel proceeding under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The panel agreed with the United States that Canada is unfairly restricting access to its market for U.S. dairy products by breaching its USMCA commitments regarding allocation of dairy tariff rate quotas (TRQs).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that David D. DeBerardinis, 60, of Shreveport, Louisiana, was sentenced today by Chief United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to 15 years in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, for committing wire fraud and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Sean T. Sheeter, the owner of a large residential compound located at 725 Poinsettia, Vista, California, pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he maintained the property as a drug-involved premises. Sheeter was charged just before the pandemic, in March 2020, with a violation of the federal “Crack House" statute.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, TEXAS - On December 26th, a panel of ancient petroglyphs in the Indian Head area of Big Bend National Park was irreparably damaged when vandals chose to boldly scratch their names and the date across the prehistoric art. Park managers have seen an increase in vandalism and graffiti in the area, and ask anyone with information about these incidents, or the persons involved, to contact the law enforcement staff of Big Bend National Park.
By Press release submission | Jan 4, 2022
“A unanimous jury has found Ghislaine Maxwell guilty of one of the worst crimes imaginable – facilitating and participating in the sexual abuse of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA -Several inmates were indicted today on multiple charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II announced.
By State Newswire | Jan 4, 2022
Release: The Troika (Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and the European Union underscore their continued support for the democratic aspirations of the Sudanese people. Abdallah Hamdok played a major role in leading Sudan’s democratic and economic reforms. His resignation as Sudanese Prime Minister...
By Press release submission | Jan 4, 2022
The FBI and Albuquerque Police Department are looking for an unidentified man with a tattoo on his left hand and who wore a black hooded sweatshirt when he robbed a bank the afternoon of Tuesday, December 28, 2021.
By Press release submission | Jan 4, 2022
The Federal Bureau of Investigation San Antonio Division, Laredo Resident Agency Office, is seeking information from the public about two missing Laredo men who were last seen on December 17, 2021.
