News from March 2022

By Press release submission | Mar 9, 2022
United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that CALVIN ANDERSON WHITE, 32, of Ethete, Wyoming pleaded guilty to assault by strangulation at a change of plea hearing on February 17, 2022, before Chief United States District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl. Sentencing has been set for May 10, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Two women have been sent to prison following their convictions of conspiracy and committing $1.2 million in food stamp fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Energy Subcommittee hearing on how President Biden’s energy policies have weakened America’s national security, raised costs on families, and emboldened Russia.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks in today’s Energy Subcommittee hearing on how President Biden’s energy policies have weakened America’s national security, raised costs on families, and emboldened Russia.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: The U.S. Census Bureau today released new Business Formation Statistics (BFS) for February 2022. The BFS provide timely and high frequency information on new business applications and formations in the United States. The BFS are a standard data product of the Census Bureau, developed in research collaboration...

By Press release submission | Mar 9, 2022
Former Tennessee State Representative Robin Smith, 58, of Hixson, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today to a single count of honest services wire fraud, following charges filed on Friday, announced U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: FORT SMITH - Two Arkansas men have been sentenced to federal prison for the Distribution of Methamphetamine. The Honorable Judge P.K. Holmes, III, presided over the sentencing hearings in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Dkeidron Dublin, 40, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to serve 72 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On March 8, 2022, Jareece Edward Blackmon, 28, from Enterprise, Alabama, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on federal gun and drug charges, including a charge of committing murder in relation to a drug trafficking crime, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. There is no parole in the federal system.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: A. Smith: Reconnect Americans to Work to Grow the Economy.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on March 7, 2022, Donald Royce, age 45, of Orlando, Florida, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to a mail fraud charge and a tax fraud offense.

By USDA Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
American Rescue Plan Technical Assistance Investment Program grant opened on March 9.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States filed a complaint to stop a seafood processor in Monroe, Washington, from processing and selling adulterated seafood products, the Justice Department announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA -Jimmy Lee Highsmith, 42, of Marianna, was sentenced to forty-eight months in federal prison following his conviction on one count of sexual abuse of a ward while on duty at the Federal Correctional Institution in Tallahassee. Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentenced.

By Press release submission | Mar 9, 2022
The Manufacturing Institute, the workforce development and education partner of the National Association of Manufacturers, announced their “35×30” Women’s campaign, an ambitious, industry-wide effort to close the gender gap in manufacturing.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Colin Andrew Shapard, 21, of Las Vegas, Nevada, has been charged in federal court by the United States Attorney’s Office in Utah with six counts related to the distribution of fentanyl in Utah. The complaint charges Shapard with one count of distribution of fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury and five counts of distribution of fentanyl.

By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.

By Press release submission | Mar 9, 2022
The National Association of Manufacturers today honored NAM board member and Nephron Pharmaceuticals CEO and Owner Lou Kennedy with the Manufacturing Icon Award during the NAM’s spring board meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
News Release: VAN BUREN, Mo. - On March 1, 2022, a federal grand jury for the Eastern District of Missouri in Cape Girardeau returned an Indictment against Marvin "Mark" Remster in connection with the arson of the Round Spring Visitor Contact Station in Ozark National Scenic Riverways last December.

By USDA Newswire | Mar 9, 2022
Conservation Innovation Grants (CIG) for Federal fiscal year (FY) 2022 &- Idaho grant opened on March 9.