News from June 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has obtained a settlement agreement resolving allegations that Meta Platforms Inc., formerly known as Facebook Inc., has engaged in discriminatory advertising in violation of the Fair Housing Act (FHA). The proposed agreement resolves a lawsuit filed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA - Daniel Glen Printz, 59, of Bostic, North Carolina, was sentenced to life without parole in federal prison after pleading guilty to killing a South Carolina woman after kidnapping her and crossing state lines.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh joined Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm, Rep. Bobby Scott, White House Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mayor Mitch Landrieu and other leaders of federal, state and local government, labor unions and workforce organizations gathered today in Washington at the “Good Jobs" Summit, part of the initiative led by the department to help create and support good-quality jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Timothy Crawley (66, North Fort Myers) to seven years in federal prison for possessing images and videos depicting the sexual abuse of children. Crawley was also sentenced to a 20-year term of supervised release and ordered to register as a sex offender. Crawley had pleaded guilty on March 15, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: For Violent Crimes. SOUTH BEND - Arsenio Harrison, 30 years old, of South Bend, Indiana, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr. on his plea of guilty to interference with commerce by robbery and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 28, at 11 a.m. (EDT) in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Protecting America’s Seniors: Oversight of Private Sector Medicare Advantage Plans."
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today approved allocations, known as 302(b)s, for its 12 subcommittees for fiscal year 2023 on a vote of 31 to 26.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior announced today that, thanks to a substantial investment from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, over $74.6 million will be distributed in 30 states to invest in geoscience data collection, mapping, data preservation, and scientific interpretation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
BJA FY 22 Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant Program - Local Solicitation grant opened on June 22.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released the draft fiscal year 2023 Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The legislation funds agencies and programs in the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and Education.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
F23AS00015 - NAWCA 2023 US Small Grants grant opened on June 22.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be sending more than $1 million to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reimburse Wellesley College for the cost of testing students, faculty and staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
Release: Contact: Southeast Regional Office (SERO) - Public Affairs. SM.FN.SEROPublicAffairs@usda.gov. 470-370-2395. FNS Press, fnspress@usda.gov. WASHINGTON, June 22, 2022 USDA Food and Nutrition Service today awarded Kentucky a grant as part of the first round of Farmers' Market Nutrition Program Benefit Delivery...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is informing the public of a notice for the importation of commercial baby kiwi fruit (Actinidia arguta) from France into the continental United States. APHIS has drafted a pest risk assessment (PRA) that describes ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: OAKLAND, Calif. - Residents and businesses in Corte Madera will now be eligible for an additional five percent discount-up from 15 to 20 percent-on their flood insurance premiums thanks to local mitigation efforts.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: LUZERNE, PA - Despite the dangers of falls - a leading cause of construction industry deaths - a Strasburg framing contractor ignored federal workplace standards and exposed workers to falls as high as 14 feet while working at a Pennsylvania Department of Transportation facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: Timothy Penick Embezzled More Than $550,000.
By State Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you. Good morning, everyone. Wonderful to see this room full – full, full, right up to the top rafters. Wow, standing room only. No, it really is wonderful as we continue all to work back from the pandemic phase of COVID that we actually can all get together increasingly and spend some time together.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of New Castle, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 46 months imprisonment with a three-year term of supervised release on her conviction of violating federal drug trafficking laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.3 million grant to Union County, Arkansas, to make railroad and other infrastructure improvements at the El Dorado Industrial Park.
