News from May 2022
By DOE Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH) wrote to President Biden today in support of Doreen Bogdan-Martin’s nomination to be Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) of the United Nations (UN).
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: MANTEO, N.C. - Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) confirmed reports this morning of an unoccupied house collapse at 24235 Ocean Drive, Rodanthe, N.C. The beach has been closed along all of Ocean Drive in Rodanthe to protect the public from hazards associated with the collapsed home and because there are additional homes in the area that may collapse.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: MANTEO, N.C. - Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) has confirmed that an unoccupied house at 24265 Ocean Drive, Rodanthe, N.C. collapsed this afternoon. This is the second unoccupied house collapse of the day at the Seashore.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The former chief financial officer for a biopharmaceutical company was indicted today for his role in an insider trading scheme, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, during a hearing she chaired, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, urged her colleagues to support the nomination of Kalpana Kotagal to be a member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), highlighting her long record defending workers’ rights-and working to create fairer workplaces and equal opportunity for all workers.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: FAIRBANKS, Alaska - Due to extremely saturated trails, the Bureau of Land Management Eastern Interior Field Office (EIFO) is temporarily closing the Wickersham Creek, Trail Creek, and Quartz Creek trails to all motorized vehicles including off-highway vehicles (OHVs).
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. - A traffic stop by the Montana Highway Patrol on Nov. 23, 2020, led to the arrest of Raymond Gerald Fillion, a previously convicted felon, for the unlawful possession of a firearm, ammunition, and drug paraphernalia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO - Yesterday, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service arrested a San Antonio man on criminal charges related to his alleged involvement in robbing U.S. letter carriers and stealing their postal keys.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on May 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - James Christopher Castle, 57, formerly of Petaluma, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for a bank fraud scheme that sought to fraudulently eliminate home mortgages and then profit on the subsequent home sales, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Norris, South Dakota, man convicted of Abusive Sexual Contact was sentenced on May 9, 2022, by Chief Judge Roberto A. Lange, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: Owensboro, KY - Ryan Compton, the remaining defendant in a federal drug conspiracy, was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in federal prison for conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and for distributing methamphetamine. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a three page rule on May 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: A Sioux City man who conspired to distribute methamphetamine pled guilty May 9, 2022, in federal court in Sioux City. Jose Luis Estrada, age 37, from Sioux City, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Kendall Dean Kipp, age 53, of Yale, was sentenced today in federal court to three years of probation for making a False Statement. He was also ordered to pay a $9,500 fine and perform 180 hours of community service over a three-year period. According to court documents, Kendall pleaded guilty to the charge on Dec. 16, 2021.
By State Newswire | May 10, 2022
Release: Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland will travel May 10-12 to Marrakech, Morocco, to attend a meeting of the Ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS.
By DOL Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Official merchandise for artists including the Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Willie Nelson or Ariana Grande may have been made by workers at a San Diego silk-screening contractor who denied them the wages they earned for their work.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Miami, Fla. man was sentenced to 78 months in prison for conspiring in a racketeering enterprise to defraud individuals through moving companies located throughout the United States. Identified victims of the fraud lost more than $2.4 million total.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2022
News Release: Innovation, Supplier Diversity, and Semiconductors Front and Center in the Motor City Yesterday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves, U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, U.S. Congresswomen Brenda Lawrence and Rashida Tlaib, Michigan Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist II, and Detroit ...
By State Newswire | May 10, 2022
Release: Under Secretary John Bass; Ambassador Beth Jones, Coordinator for Afghan Relocation Efforts; and other senior officials met yesterday with representatives of a self-organized coalition of more than 180 organizations, including veterans, frontline civilians, social workers, attorneys, non-profits, Congressional staff, and private sector employees, working to support relocation and resettlement of our Afghan allies and partners.
