News published on Federal Newswire in March 2022

News from March 2022


Dual U.S.-Russian National Charged with Acting Illegally as a Russian Agent in United States

News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court in New York unsealed a complaint today charging a dual Russian and U.S. citizen with acting and conspiring to act in the United States illegally as an agent of the Russian government, willfully failing to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), as well as conspiring to commit visa fraud and making false statements to the FBI.


News Release: ST. LOUIS - A federal grand jury indicted Cornelius M. Green and Phillip J. Cutler on March 9, 2022, for conspiracy to commit murder for hire and murder for hire that resulted in the death of Jocelyn Peters and her unborn child in 2016.


Hooksett Man Receives Prison Sentence for Attempting to Send Obscene Material to a Minor

News Release: CONCORD - Stuart Adams, 61, of Hooksett, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in federal prison for attempted transfer of obscene material to a minor, United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.


Press Availability Following a Meeting with Algerian President Tebboune

Release: Good afternoon. It is wonderful to back in Algiers for my first visit as Deputy Secretary of State. And I’m so delighted to be standing here with your Foreign Minister [Lamamra] and our Ambassador [Aubin].


20 Indicted on Drug and Gun Charges

News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Twenty residents of the Western District of Pennsylvania have been charged by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh in four separate but related Indictments with violations of the federal narcotics and firearms laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Leader Rodgers: E&C Continues to be Misaligned with Americans

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks a today’s Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on daylight savings time.


Inspector General Nominee Commits to Portman to Work on Bipartisan Basis to Address Waste, Fraud and Abuse at OPM

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This morning, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, received a commitment from the nominee to be Inspector General in the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Krista Boyd, that if confirmed she would work...


Danville Man Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison for Drug Trafficking and the Unlawful Use of Firearms

News Release: URBANA, Ill. - A Danville, Illinois, man, Deandre Smith, 35, was sentenced on March 8, 2022, to a combined term of 120 months in the Bureau of Prisons for convictions including distribution of fentanyl, distribution of methamphetamine, possession of fentanyl with the intent to distribute, carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime, and possession of a firearm by a felon.


Man Charged with Federal Gun Crime in Connection with Death of Child

News Release: SAN ANTONIO - Yesterday, Joshua Christopher Ramirez, 32, of San Antonio was arrested in San Antonio on criminal charges related to allegations that a gun he possessed was used to kill a two-year-old child.


Energy Department discusses Combined Notice of Filings on March 8

The US Energy Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


U.S. Policy and Current Issues in International Disability Rights

Release: THE WASHINGTON FOREIGN PRESS CENTER, WASHINGTON, D.C.


News Release: Two California men were sentenced yesterday on conspiracy and hate crime charges for attacking five victims inside a restaurant while shouting ethnic slurs, hurling chairs at the victims and threatening to kill them.


Sen. Murray: American Rescue Plan Powered Economic Recovery by Helping People Go To Work and Take Care of Their Families

News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, ahead of the one year anniversary since the American Rescue Plan was signed into law, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on how the American Rescue Plan powered the economic recovery by keeping child care providers open, supporting home- and community-based services (HCBS), and supporting workers and families.


Federal Jury Convicts Pryor Man of Sexually Abusing Two of his Children

News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A Pryor man was convicted Thursday in federal court for repeatedly sexually abusing two of his daughters for approximately 10 years, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson. In 2020 when the two victims were adults, they came forward to report the abuse.



Member of Brockton-Based Drug Trafficking Organization Sentenced to 19 Years in Prison

News Release: Defendant shot and killed a drug customer in furtherance of heroin conspiracy.


The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Secretary Blinken’s Call with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kuleba

News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke by phone today with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to offer continued support to the people and government of Ukraine and to condemn Russia’s attacks on Ukrainian cities and mounting civilian deaths. ...


News Release: BOSTON - The member of a violent Brockton-based drug trafficking organization (DTO) was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for his role in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.


News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former medical assistant today admitted defrauding New Jersey state and local health benefits programs and other insurers of more than $1 million by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced.