News from June 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Riverside County man pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for streaming sexually explicit videos of children - some of them toddlers - in a Zoom online meeting room for individuals interested in child exploitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Akrum Alrahib, 43, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced today to five years in prison and ordered to pay over $10 million in restitution for conspiring to commit mail fraud in non-cigarette tobacco schemes that defrauded the State of California of over $10 million in unpaid excise taxes, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
Release: By Cindy Long, FNS Administrator. USDA and the Biden Administration have been working hard for months to get more safe infant formula onto shelves across the country. Ending this shortage is a top priority. In the meantime, weve heard many uplifting stories of neighbors helping neighbors and strangers...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
News Release: Glen Jean, WV -The National Park Service has received approximately $9.8 million in funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to plug, remediate and reclaim abandoned oil and gas well sites in national parks, including Gauley River National Recreation Area. Overall, bureaus within the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture will address 277 high-priority wells that pose threats to human health and safety, the climate, wildlife and natural resources.
By Andy Nghiem | Jun 13, 2022
The U.S. Department of the Interior's (DOI) Bureau of Indian Affairs recently announced a buy-back program available to more than 3,000 landowners with interests at the Lower Brule Reservation in South Dakota.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
News Release: Cortez, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Canyons of the Ancients Visitor Center & Museum has begun hosting interpretive programs, guided hikes, and will resume tours of its curation program starting July 6, 2022. Tours are open to the public and free with the $6 admission fee to the Visitor Center. Federal recreation pass holders and people under age 18 always enjoy free admission to the museum.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - Christopher Brian Goodwin, 46, was sentenced to 135 months on Friday, by Chief U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves, for deprivation of rights under color of law and three counts of sexual abuse of a ward.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
The Daily Digest section of the Congressional Record published “Senate” on June 9.
By Trina Thomas | Jun 13, 2022
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas made a statement regarding new Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis Kenneth Wainstein's confirmation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA - Travis Stefenon Dequan Lawrence, 29, of Charleston, was sentenced to seven years in federal prison after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
News Release: HUNTINGTON W.Va. - A Maryland man pleaded guilty today to receipt of stolen money, for his role in a scheme that defrauded more than 200 victims, many of them elderly, of at least $2.5 million.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement after a bipartisan group of Senators announced an agreement on reforms to address gun violence...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Richard Brent Collum, of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was sentenced today to 12 months and one day of incarceration for a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 13, 2022
Release: The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) plans to revise the regulations governing domestic quarantines for plant pests by moving lists of quarantined areas and regulated articles to the APHIS website. This amendment will allow us to use a notice-based, streamlined approach to update the lists while continuing to protect plant health.
By Press release submission | Jun 13, 2022
On June 9, the NOAA Ship Oscar Elton Sette will depart Hawai‘i for a month-long mission to study a remote area of the North Pacific Ocean. Scientists from the Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center will study the ecosystem.
By Press release submission | Jun 13, 2022
Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.7 million grant to the Sullivan County Division of Public Works, Monticello, New York, to increase local internet connectivity.
By Press release submission | Jun 13, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, welcomes the nomination of Doug McKalip to serve as Chief Agricultural Negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
By Press release submission | Jun 13, 2022
Statement by Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on LGBTQI+ Pride Month
By Press release submission | Jun 13, 2022
The Anniversary of the Founding of the Italian Republic
By Press release submission | Jun 13, 2022
Secretary Blinken’s Call with Omani Foreign Minister Al Busaidi