News from May 2022
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on May 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - In honor of National Police Week, United States Attorney Jason M. Frierson recognizes the service and sacrifice of federal, state, local, and tribal law enforcement. This year, National Police Week is observed from Wednesday, May 11 through Tuesday, May 17.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that United States District Judge Malachy E. Mannion sentenced Devro Hebron, age 38, of the District of Columbia, yesterday to 24 months’ imprisonment for the offense of Attempted Provision of Contraband to an Inmate. The 24-month sentence must run consecutively to the federal prison sentence that Hebron was already serving at the time of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - Investigators from the DEA Criminal Diversion Group, the Kentucky Attorney General’s Office, the Barbourville Police Department, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, and the Manchester Police Department arrested twelve people, and seized approximately 10,000 diverted oxycodone pills and over $2,000,000 in U.S. Currency, as the result of an investigation into a Louisville-based drug trafficking operation.
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: Joint statement from Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Highways and Transit Subcommittee Ranking Member Rodney Davis (R-IL) on the Administration’s “action plan" on infrastructure project permitting announced today...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Ashley Leyba, 32, of Sacramento, charging her with bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession of stolen mail, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC. - Today, the Bureau of Land Management announced project allocations for $26 million received through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to begin the work of ecosystem restoration following the Department of the Interior’s allocation of more than $68 million for 125 ecosystem restoration projects in over 20 states, Tribes and territories.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Parkersburg man was sentenced today to one year and three months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for escape after walking away from a federal reentry facility.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 13-count indictment charging nine defendants with narcotics conspiracy. Named in the indictment are.
By Homeland Newswire | May 12, 2022
Release: Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), Chair of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Army Installations and Quality of Life Hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: Indictment Alleges the Defendant Used the Re-encoded Gift Cards to Sell Fuel to Truck Drivers in Exchange for Cash at Half-Price.
By Homeland Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on Healthy Aging: Maximizing the Independence, Well-being, and Health of Older Adults.
By EPA Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) delivered remarks at today’s Health Subcommittee markup of six bills, including the H.R. 7667, the “Food and Drug Amendments of 2022, and H.R. 7666, the “Restoring Hope for Mental Health and Well-Being Act of 2022."
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
There was activity on three bills related to the Judiciary Committee on April 1.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Craig Wilkins, 37, of Rutland, pleaded not guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to charges that he possessed two handguns as a convicted felon and that he possessed fentanyl and cocaine base with intent to distribute them. U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin Doyle ordered that Wilkins be held without bail pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Michigan man suspected of working with other Detroit-area individuals to distribute fentanyl on the Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservation admitted to a trafficking crime today, said U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson,.
By Commerce Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, MA-House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) released the following statement on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) April 2022 jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2022
News Release: NAUGATUCK, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ADAM MINES, 38, of Naugatuck, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 33 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By Homeland Newswire | May 12, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on May 11.
By Press release submission | May 12, 2022
On May 4, 2022, United States Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan HAGIUDA Koichi met in Washington D.C. to discuss the situation surrounding global energy security, strengthening energy cooperation between the United States and Japan, and policies and initiatives to address the global climate crisis.
