News from July 2022

By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid to congratulate him on assuming his new role. The Secretary reaffirmed to the Prime Minister the unwavering commitment of the United States to the U.S.-Israel partnership, ...
By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
Release: The United States is encouraged by the outcomes of the most recent ECOWAS Summit, held on July 3. We welcome the agreement between ECOWAS and Mali on a 24-month transition timeline starting in March 2022. We trust the transition government of Mali will turn its full attention to implementing the benchmarks...

By DOL Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: TEMPLE, TX - A federal workplace safety investigation into how an employee suffered serious injuries in January 2022 at a Temple manufacturing facility operated by Carpenter Co. - one of the nation’s largest cushion manufacturers - found the company had not installed adequate machine guards or locking devices on a hot laminating machine to protect workers from unsafe contact with the machine’s operating parts.
By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I send my warmest regards to the people of Solomon Islands on the occasion of your National Day on July 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that TYRONE DILLING, age 27, of New Orleans, Louisiana was sentenced today by the Honorable Barry W. Ashe, District Court Judge, Eastern District of Louisiana, to a two-year term of probation after pleading guilty to unlawfully opening the mail he was entrusted to deliver. The Court ordered DILLING to pay a mandatory special assessment fee of one hundred dollars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: Told officers that he would just go get more guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Vanessa Roberts Avery today announced several supervisory appointments within the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

By State Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Representatives Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) and Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and Jim Risch (R-ID), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement reaffirming support for renewal of cross-border humanitarian access to Syria during the upcoming United Nations Security Council (UNSC) vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: Defendant took numerous government-funded trips, including 31 trips to Orlando.

By US DOT Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on July 8.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that, as jury selection was scheduled to get underway in his federal trial, Nicholas Turnquist, 36, of West Falls, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to transportation and attempted transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.

By DOE Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
Release: President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Provides Historic Investments to Build State and Tribal Electricity Grids Resilient to Climate Change, Deploy Cheaper and Cleaner Energy
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on July 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a one page notice on July 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By USDA Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Modernization Technical Assistance Center (SEMTAC) grant opened on July 7.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in Bridgeport returned an indictment yesterday charging KIMANI WILLIAMS, 30, of Bridgeport, with unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: WHEELING - Weirton Medical Center, a hospital located in Weirton, West Virginia, has agreed to pay $1.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting or causing the submission of claims to Medicare in violation of the Physician Self-Referral Law (commonly referred to as the Stark Law).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person was sentenced on June 30, 2022, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: CHRISTMAS VALLEY, Ore. - The Christmas Valley Back Country Byway GeoTour officially launched June 30, 2022. Over the fourth of July weekend, approximately 300 people, both experienced and new geocachers traveled to North Lake County, Oregon, to try and complete the 28 cache GeoTour. Some dedicated geocachers, traveled from as far away as Sacramento, CA, to complete the 26 required caches.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 7, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Yesterday, Benjamin Gallegos, 24, of Tucson, Arizona was sentenced by United States District Judge Scott H. Rash to 48 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. Gallegos previously pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Transport and Harbor Illegal Aliens for Profit for...