News from June 2022
By Press release submission | Jun 23, 2022
Former federal agent convicted of corruption in connection to illicit relationship with subject of counterterrorism investigation
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Andre Ricardo Briscoe, a/k/a “Poo", age 38, of Baltimore and Cambridge, Maryland, on federal drug distribution charges, use of a firearm to commit murder in relation to drug trafficking crimes, killing a witness to prevent communication with law enforcement and being a felon in possession of firearm and ammunition.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: The United States expresses deep sorrow for the victims of today’s devastating earthquake in Afghanistan, and we offer our sympathy and prayers to those who lost loved ones in the tragedy. The people of Afghanistan have undergone extraordinary hardship, and this natural disaster compounds an already ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
NIJ FY 2022 Invited to Apply - Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development: Social Development Sub-study (ABCD: SD) grant opened on June 23.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 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 $2.6 million grant to the National Association of Counties (NACo) to lead a coal-focused Community of Practice called the Building Resilient Economies...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: MARS, PA - An industrial insulation contractor in Ohio entered into a settlement agreement with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to resolve litigation prompted by the findings of a June 2020 investigation into the fatal fall of one worker and serious injuries suffered by three others after they fell from a roof and scaffold at an indoor horse-riding facility in Mars.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - During a coordinated law enforcement operation this morning, law enforcement agents and officers executed three search warrants and arrested four defendants in South Lake Tahoe and Sacramento, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: On the 23rd anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Olmstead v. L.C., the Department of Justice announced today that it has concluded that Maine unnecessarily segregates children with mental health and/or developmental disabilities, in psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment facilities, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, John Hoeven (R-ND) and Jacky Rosen (D-NV) to help recruit, develop and retain highly skilled cybersecurity professionals in the federal workforce has been signed into law. Agencies across the federal government face growing cyber threats, but struggle to hire and retain qualified cybersecurity employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - Mondraques Newby, 30, has been sentenced to 100 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm. Joseph C. Murphy Jr., United States Attorney, announced the sentence today.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
Belarus and Combating Impunity grant opened on June 23.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The President has signed into law three bipartisan bills authored by U.S. Senator Gary Peters (MI), Chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to significantly strengthen our nation’s cybersecurity. The new laws will increase cybersecurity coordination...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO-In 2021, the 15.3 million park visitors to Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Muir Woods National Monument and Fort Point National Historic Site spent around $1 billion in gateway communities which supported 9,583 local jobs,.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and Rob Portman (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to promote stronger cybersecurity coordination between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and state...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered remarks in support of H.R. 7666, the Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A recent federal investigation has found that a Reno landscaping company - that employs workers exposed to the outdoors, including on summer days when temperatures can peak at 90 degrees - intentionally shortchanged 57 of its workers by denying them overtime wages they were owed.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
OIA-BIL Activity 8 grant opened on June 23.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of the Interior today announced that visitor spending in communities near national parks in 2021 resulted in a $42.5 billion benefit to the nation’s economy and supported 322,600 mostly local jobs.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: LOGAN, UTAH, June 22, 2022-The USDA Agricultural Research Service is leading a project dubbed "Beenome100" to produce high-quality maps of the genomes of at least 100 bee species, capturing the diversity of bees in the United States, representing each of the major bee taxonomic groups in this country.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 23, 2022
News Release: GUAYNABO, PR - A federal judge has ordered two San Juan restaurants and their owners to pay a total of $31,630 to 19 workers after the owners withheld back wages they assured the U.S. Department of Labor they would pay the employees after an investigation found their pay practices violated federal law.
