News from May 2022
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Vanessa R. Waldref, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced today that Senior Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson has sentenced Jeremy Gilbert, 35, of Moses Lake, Washington, to just over fifteen years in federal prison, followed by a four-year term of supervised release.
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a three page rule on May 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Republican Leader Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) asked Big Tech companies how they will handle the Biden administration’s latest efforts to censor Americans using the newly established Disinformation Governance Board.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: A woman who distributed heroin and fentanyl in Dubuque, Iowa, plead guilty on May 12, 2022.
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2022
Release: U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and Canadian Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson met in Washington, DC on May 11, 2022, to discuss a number of key issues of mutual interest and importance. The cornerstone of the discussion was an Action Plan to implement the 2021 Memorandum ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man, arrested in April 2021 moments after he claimed a package that was found by investigators to contain nearly two kilograms of cocaine shipped from Puerto Rico, pled guilty in federal court on Wednesday to possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and using a communication device to facilitate the commission of a drug felony, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Carl Delano Torjagbo, a/k/a Karl Lucius Delano, has been arrested on federal bank fraud and money laundering charges arising from a scheme to defraud a bank by obtaining a $9.5 million Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP") loan in the name of a fictitious company and then allegedly using the...
By DOL Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - As temperatures rise in New England, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration reminds employers and workers not to ignore the dangers of working in hot weather - indoors and out - and remember that “Water. Rest. Shade." can be the difference between ending the workday safely or suffering serious injuries or worse.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Nicole LeClair, 34, of Washington, Vermont, and Christopher Emmons, 51, of Washington, Vermont, were arrested today during search warrants at their residences. LeClair has been charged with distributions of controlled...
By DOE Newswire | May 13, 2022
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on May 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: Spokane, Washington - Hensel Phelps Construction Company (Hensel Phelps), a large construction company headquartered in Greeley, Colorado, has agreed to pay $2,804,110, to resolve allegations that it improperly manipulated a federal subcontract designated for a business owned and operated by a service-disabled...
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Modernizing Hydropower: Licensing and Reforms for a Clean Energy Future:"
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: Thank you, Chair Cantwell and Chair Johnson, for calling this important meeting today. It’s nice to see so many of my colleagues from both Chambers and both sides of the aisle here to discuss such a critical issue.
By Karen Kidd | May 13, 2022
Travelers in New York and New Jersey who want to board an airplane will need a REAL ID-compliant credential or some other type of approved identification to fly or enter a secure federal facility, the Transportation Security Administration said in a May 4 news release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member who was charged in federal court in Boston in 2017 was arrested on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 in Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2022
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on May 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | May 13, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Ways and Means Committee on April 1.
By Homeland Newswire | May 13, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a one page notice on May 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Harold, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on May 10, 2022, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2022
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - A Purvis husband and wife were sentenced to prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroine, and fentanyl, announced U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Brad Byerley of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
