News from July 2022
By USDA Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with South Carolina under the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA). Through LFPA, the South Carolina Department of Agriculture seeks to purchase and distribute locally grown, produced, and processed food from underserved producers.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on July 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, gas station manager today admitted making approximately $78,000 in fraudulent fuel charges using account information belonging to more than 17 gas station customers, including Amtrak, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
Experienced Services Program grant opened on July 12.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on July 11.
By Andy Nghiem | Jul 12, 2022
Smithfield Foods recently announced that it supports students that participate in the Envirothon program, but several sources call Chinese-owned Smithfield a harmful environmental polluter.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WAYNE MARCELL, 36, of Danbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 264 months of imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release, for engaging in illicit sexual acts with child, and photographing and video recording his sexual abuse. Judge Bolden also ordered Marcell to pay a $30,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of an indictment charging Dyonnie Alvarez (22, Tampa), her brother, Christopher Alvarez (18, Gibsonton), and Enrique Marquez (26, Tampa) with four Hobbs Act robberies, conspiracy to commit those robberies, and four counts of brandishing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on July 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Yesterday, 69-year-old Jorge Murrillo pled guilty in federal district court in Miami to conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act (CAA) by importing over 300,000 kilograms of illegal hydrochlorofluorocarbon-22 (HCFC-22), worth over $1.5 million, into the United States from China. HCFC-22 is a widely used refrigerant for residential heat pump and air-conditioning systems.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: On Friday, July 8, 2022, the U.S. Department of State launched a draft Request for Proposals (RFP ) outlining a multi-billion dollar “Evolve” acquisition strategy to modernize U.S. diplomatic technology. Evolve is a key part of Secretary Blinken’s agenda to build a State Department that is equipped to ...
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
Release: MS BLAUW: Since we have only seven minutes, I’m just going to go straight to it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that AARON FINN pled guilty to a deprivation of constitutional rights under color of law. FINN, formerly a correction officer at the Green Haven Correctional Facility, assaulted an inmate in the custody...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Copper Center, AK - Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve has announced the release of a prospectus soliciting proposals for Hunting Guide Services.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Kaʻū, Hawaiʻi Island - Today, Trust for Public Land (TPL) transferred ownership and stewardship of Pōhue Bay to the National Park Service, preserving the area’s unique natural and cultural resources from development. The 16,451-acre parcel-from Māmalahoa Highway to the shoreline-is now part of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.
By Andy Nghiem | Jul 12, 2022
The Supreme Court recently ruled to allow state-level prosecution on Native American lands, specifically the prosecution of non-Natives who commit crimes on tribal lands. The decision will partially overturn previous SCOTUS rulings about jurisdiction on Native American lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2022
News Release: Significant Amounts of Drugs, Guns and Money Seized.
By Timothy Stuckey | Jul 12, 2022
R&B singer Robert Sylvester Kelly, better known as R. Kelly, was recently sentenced to 30 years in prison.
By Karen Kidd | Jul 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation honored six employees during the Administrative Professional of the Year awards, held June 27.
By Bob Pepalis | Jul 12, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor continues to search for workers who were owed back wages from two Mississippi poultry processing plants.
