News from January 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: PRESIDENT BIDEN’S FIRST YEAR: America’s Economy Was Poised for Greatness in ’21-How Did Biden Bungle It This Badly?.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: Today, Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after the Biden administration withdrew its emergency temporary standard (ETS) requiring millions of private sector workers to obtain the COVID-19 vaccine or test weekly. Yet the administration failed to withdraw its proposed rule, setting the stage for another tyrannical vaccine mandate in the next few months.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Robert K. Burns, age 61, of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Christopher C. Conner to 48 months’ imprisonment for tampering with consumer products. The sentence also included a two-year term of supervised release, which will follow the term of imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A North Carolina man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for firearms trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: Raleigh, NC - The U.S. Marshals Service, in coordination with the Harnett County Sheriff’s Office, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and Fayetteville Police Department, safely recovered a child and mother who had been missing from Fayetteville, N.C. since 2016.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - A FEMA Disaster Recovery Center is now open in Houma to help survivors affected by Hurricane Ida. Survivors can get help with their disaster assistance applications, upload documents and have their questions about federal disaster assistance answered at the centers.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
Release: U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Ambassador David Satterfield will travel to Kenya, Egypt, the UAE, Turkey, and Israel from January 24 to February 4, 2022. Special Envoy Satterfield will hold meetings with officials from respective governments and key stakeholders to promote democratic civilian rule in Sudan and to support peace and prosperity in the Horn of Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: A federal jury convicted a 41-year-old Muskogee man for possessing with intent to distribute crack cocaine in Tulsa, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - An associate of the Orchard Park gang pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to firearm and drug charges arising from his involvement in a Boston-area drug trafficking organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: OAKLAND - Staccato Powell and Sheila Quintana were arrested and appeared in federal court today to face conspiracy, wire fraud, and mail fraud charges stemming from an alleged fraudulent scheme committed upon congregations of the AME Zion Church in California and private lenders, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Craig D. Fair.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, 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 Act (PREVENT...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury today charged a Guntersville woman on charges involving straw purchasing of firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Explosives, and Firearms Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - Kristopher Harris, 23, has been sentenced to 97 months in federal prison for a carjacking. Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., United States Attorney announced the sentence today.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
DE-FOA-0002573: Technical Partnerships FOA grant opened on Jan. 25.
By State Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
Release: U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Ambassador David Satterfield will travel to Kenya, Egypt, the UAE, Turkey, and Israel from January 24 to February 4, 2022. Special Envoy Satterfield will hold meetings with officials from respective governments and key stakeholders to promote democratic civilian rule in Sudan and to support peace and prosperity in the Horn of Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Jan. 24, 2022, Christopher J. Kone (age: 37) of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, was sentenced to 156 months’ imprisonment for two counts of possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: San Antonio, TX - Members of the U.S. Marshals-led Task Force Tuesday afternoon arrested OL Wallace Jr., 18, in the 3400 block of Salado Creek Drive in San Antonio. Wallace Jr. had been sought on three warrants for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and a homicide charge from the San Antonio Police Department that was issued Jan. 19 by a Magistrate Judge in Bexar County.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Preparations are well underway to transfer nearly 2,000 highly radioactive capsules from the Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility (WESF) to interim dry storage at the Hanford Site.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 25, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Oversight and Reform Committee, and Rep. James Comer, Ranking Member of the Oversight and Reform Committee, introduced the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2022. This legislation aims to improve the federal government’s...
