News published on Federal Newswire in November 2022

News from November 2022



DOS-MLI offers new grant application process starting Nov. 23

U.S. Embasy Bamako Public Diplomacy Anual Program Statement grant opened on Nov. 23.


Leaders Rodgers and Cole to Biden Administration: Don’t Punish Doctors, Nurses and Frontline Workers

News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Republican Leader Tom Cole (R-OK) issued the following statement after the Biden administration announced plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars out of the Provider Relief Fund on a COVID-19 vaccine campaign...


Commerce Department discusses Resumption of the Population Estimates Challenge Program on Nov. 22

The US Commerce Department published a three page rule on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Homeland Security Department published a three page rule on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to 4 years in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon.



Iranian Attacks Against the Iraqi Kurdistan Region

Release: Iran’s violations of Iraqi territorial integrity continue with lethal attacks carried out against the Iraqi Kurdistan Region from November 20 through 22. The United States strongly condemns these repeated and brazen violations of Iraq’s territorial integrity and calls on Iran to refrain from further threats and violence.


New Orleans Man Convicted of Drug Trafficking Charges at Trial

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on Nov. 18, 2022 after a four (4) day trial before United States District Judge Eldon E. Fallon, GEORGE BENNETT, aka “G," 39, from the greater New Orleans area, was convicted of three counts of drug trafficking charges.


Somerset County Man Admits $850,000 Paycheck Protection Program Fraud Scheme

News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey, man admitted fraudulently obtaining over $850,000 in federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger, announced today.


Biden-Harris Administration Announces $550 Million in Clean Energy Funding to Benefit and Lower Costs for More than 250 Million Americans

Release: Program Makes Funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Available to Over 2,700 Communities, including States, Local Governments, and Tribes Nationwide for Clean Energy Efforts


News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal jury has convicted Michael Rech, 49, of North Chili, NY, of 37 counts of bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a fine of $500,000.


DOE Issues Initial PFAS Assessment

News Release: The Department of Energy (DOE or the Department) would like to share with you an update on its efforts to assess and address the presence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances at DOE sites.


Two Des Moines Men Sentenced to Federal Prison for Fentanyl Overdose Death

News Release: DES MOINES, IOWA - Michael Allen James, age 39, of Des Moines, was sentenced to 240 months in prison for distributing a controlled substance which resulted in death on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. On August 5, 2022, Gregory Michael Williams, age 38, was sentenced to 168 months in prison for distributing a controlled substance which resulted in death. Both men were sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge Stephanie Rose after pleading guilty.



Clarksville Home Business Owner Convicted Of Filing False Tax Returns

News Release: NASHVILLE - A federal jury yesterday convicted a Clarksville, Tennessee man of filing false tax returns that omitted income he earned from his business, announced U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.


Notice published on Nov. 22 by Commerce Department

The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Medical Certification Standards for Commercial Balloon Operations discussed on Nov. 22 by Transportation Department

The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that STEPHFAN SANDERSON, also known as “Birdy" and “Beans, 24, of Covington, Georgia, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a firearms trafficking offense.


News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Coenraad Cromhoudt, 48, of Cayuga, Indiana, was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to distribution and receipt of child sexual abuse material.