News published on Federal Newswire in May 2022

News from May 2022


Deputy Secretary Sherman’s Meeting with Angolan President Lourenço

Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.


Convicted Sex Offender Pleads Guilty to Violating Federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act

News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. - A convicted West Virginia sex offender pleaded guilty today to failing to provide information related to foreign travel as required by the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).


$300 Million Yacht of Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Suleiman Kerimov Seized by Fiji at Request of United States

News Release: Fijian law enforcement executed a seizure warrant freezing the Motor Yacht Amadea (the Amadea), a 348-foot luxury vessel owned by sanctioned Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov. Fijian law enforcement, with the support and assistance of the FBI, acted pursuant to a mutual legal assistance request from ...


News Release: BRECKSVILLE, Ohio - Cuyahoga Valley National Park closed the Brandywine Falls parking lot and the upper section of the Brandywine Gorge Trail today. A section of the Summit Metroparks Bike & Hike Trail is also closed, making the waterfall inaccessible from that trail. Due to multiple construction projects in the area, this closure will be in effect until September 30. Park staff will regularly assess conditions and reopen sections if it is safe to do so.


News Release: ANCHORAGE - Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Alaska joins with communities across Alaska in shining a spotlight on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Awareness Day.


E&C Leaders Unveil FDA User Fees Legislative Package

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) today unveiled a comprehensive...


News Release: Today, the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced that it has awarded 19 grants as part of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program. Andy Berke, NTIA’s Special Representative for Broadband, will announce the grants at an event in the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona.


News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Swedish Foreign Minister Ann Linde in Washington, D.C. Secretary Blinken underscored the importance of the Transatlantic relationship to European security and reaffirmed our commitment to NATO’s Open ...


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on May 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Former Liberian Rebel General Charged With Immigration Fraud

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Laye Sekou Camara, a/k/a “K-1," a/k/a “Dragon Master," 43, of Mays Landing, NJ,was arrested and charged by Criminal Complaint and subsequent Indictment on the charge of use of an immigration document obtained by fraud.


News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Cory O’Connor, age 33, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced yesterday to 60 months’ imprisonment to be followed by 4 years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for drug trafficking.


News Release: OAKLAND - Javed Wahab pleaded guilty today to theft of government property in connection with a scheme to steal funds designed to aid medical providers in the treatment of patients suffering from COVID-19, announced U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office...


The US Homeland Security Department published a five page notice on May 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


DOI-USGS1 grant application closes on June 7

Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Rocky Mountain Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on May 5.



DOJ's Olsen: 'Economic espionage is a serious offense'

A Chinese national who lived for a time in the U.S. has been sentenced to 29 months in prison for conspiring to commit economic espionage, the U.S. Department of Justice reported last month.


News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) today unveiled a comprehensive...


Biden Administration Continues War on American Minerals

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - This week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its recommendation that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers not re-issue PolyMet’s Clean Water Act Section 404 permit for the NorthMet project in northeastern Minnesota.


The US Environmental Protection Agency published a two page rule on May 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


USDOJ-OJP-COPS grant application closes on June 21

FY22 Expansion of Regional De-Escalation Training Centers - Community Policing Development Solicitation grant opened on May 5.


News Release: A federal jury convicted a Tulsa man Wednesday for breaking into a former girlfriend’s home and strangling her, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.