News published on Federal Newswire in January 2022

News from January 2022


News Release: Small Businesses Desperate for Workers After President Biden Discouraged Work.


News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal grand jury today charged three convicted felons on gun and drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Explosives, and Firearms Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.


News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following, initial reaction to Speaker Pelosi ending bipartisan, bicameral negotiations to develop legislation to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s malign actions that would have the ability to pass...


News Release: SYRACUSE, NY - Shakespeare Cruz, 48, of New York City, pleaded guilty today to federal drug trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Acting Special Agent in Charge Timothy Foley, Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division, and New York State Police Superintendent Kevin P. Bruen.


Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to all of you and welcome to those tuning in online. This is our administration’s first meeting of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, which I have the honor of chairing. And to kick off today’s meeting it is a great pleasure to introduce our first speaker, a longstanding leader on these issues, the Vice President of the United States.


News Release: ATLANTA - Rodriquez Deonte Redding has been sentenced for trafficking cocaine and laundering his drug profits by purchasing luxury cars in his mother’s and grandmother’s names. He faced new charges of wire fraud and the court imposed an additional sentence of one year and three months after the government discovered Redding had fraudulently obtained two Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans while on bond for the drug and money laundering charges.


Massachusetts Man Arrested for Conspiracy to Steal Firearms

News Release: William Guerrero, 20, of Brighton, Massachusetts was arrested today on a complaint charging him with participating in a conspiracy to steal firearms from federally licensed firearm dealers, U.S. Attorney John J. Farley announced today.


News Release: Brady: In One Year, President Biden Reversed Three Years of Wage Growth.


Finance Committee Republicans: EV Provisions Unfairly Favor Certain Companies, Hurt American Workers, and Undermine America’s Trade Interests

News Release: Dear Colleague: . Republicans on the Finance Committee support a robust market for clean fuels and transportation. At a time when the Biden Administration’s reckless policies are fueling record inflation and supply chain disruptions, we must ensure Americans can find ways to cope, including through relief...


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Werni Lopez-Perez, 25, and Mario Guizar-Anchondo, 19, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, made an initial appearance in federal court today, facing charges of conspiracy, possession with the intent to distribute 400 grams and more of fentanyl, possession with the intent to distribute 500...


Bee County Jail Escapee Apprehended by CBP Officers at Progreso Port of Entry

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Field Operations officers working an outbound operation at the Progreso International Bridge apprehended a man who escaped from the Bee County Jail on January 15, 2022 and was attempting to flee the country on foot.


News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - A team from a middle school in Spartanburg, South Carolina took first place in the 19th annual Future City Regional Competition on Jan. 22, accomplishing the mission to design and build a model city with a waste-free future.


News Release: Brady: U.S. Unemployment Rate is Low for All the Wrong Reasons.


CBP Air and Marine Operations and U.S. Border Patrol Team Up to Evacuate a Woman from the Baboquivari Mountains

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations (AMO) and U. S. Border Patrol agents evacuate a female migrant from the Baboquivari Mountains.


CBP Officers in Massena Discover 11 lbs. of Marijuana in Trunk

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at the Port of Entry seized multiple vacuum-sealed packages of marijuana concealed in the trunk of a vehicle, that was attempting to cross the border.


DOE Announces New Initiatives and Growing Support to Rapidly Increase Community Solar Deployment

News Release: At today’s National Community Solar Partnership (NCSP) Annual Summit, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced several new initiatives to unlock barriers to the deployment of community solar. Together, these initiatives will help achieve the NCSP’s target to enable community solar to power the equivalent of 5 million households and create $1 billion in energy bill savings by 2025.


San Diego CBP Officers Discover Two People Hiding in Locked Trunk Compartment

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at the San Ysidro port of entry Wednesday discovered two women hidden in a specially built compartment in the trunk of a vehicle.


Webster City Man Sentenced to Over 10 Years Federal Prison for Meth Offense

News Release: A man who possessed with intent to distribute methamphetamine was sentenced Jan. 24, 2022, in federal court in Sioux City.


Readout summary: BLM Orphaned/Abandoned Wells Webinar

News Release: Four panels of community leaders, commercial operators, environmental representatives, and landowners offered suggestions to the Bureau of Land Management in a January 6, 2022, online webinar and listening session that drew more than 1,000 participants.


CBP Seizes Over 1 Ton of Marijuana in Port Huron

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Field Operations seized over 2,027 pounds of Marijuana within the trailer of an inbound commercial shipment at the Blue Water Bridge, Thursday evening.