News published on Federal Newswire in November 2022

News from November 2022


DOS-MKD grant application closes on Aug. 15

Public Diplomacy Smal Grants Program 2023 grant opened on Nov. 22.


News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On November 7, 2022, Keenan Sherman Johnson, 26, of McNary, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Steven P. Logan to 180 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release. Johnson, an enrolled member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, previously pleaded guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child.


News Release: Concord, NH - Late this afternoon, “Fugitive of the Week", Amanda Lee Tappan, 31 years-of-age, surrendered at the U.S. District Court in Concord, NH. Tappan had been wanted on an outstanding federal arrest warrant issued on Sept. 24, 2019 for bail violations and failing to appear on an original charge of sales of the synthetic narcotic - Fentanyl.


Notice published by Transportation Department on Nov. 21

The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: MIAMI - A federal magistrate judge has unsealed an indictment charging Miami resident Julio Arsenio Rodriguez, 61, with running a money laundering operation involving millions of Medicare and Medicaid health care fraud proceeds.


DOS-MOZ offers new grant application process starting Nov. 22

FY2023 Alumni Engagement Inovation Fund grant opened on Nov. 22.


What did Energy Department publish on Nov. 21?

The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Nebraska man sentenced to 10 years in prison for distribution of methamphetamine following joint HSI, law enforcement partner investigation

News Release: GRAND ISLAND, Neb. - Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations Kansas City Katherine Greer and Acting United States Attorney Steven Russell announced that Raymond L. Moreno, 37, of Grand Island, Nebraska, was sentenced today in federal court in Lincoln. United States District Judge...


News Release: NORTH BEND, Ore. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will remove the docks from the water at the North Spit Boat Ramp as early as Monday, Nov. 21, depending on weather.


Justice Department Secures Agreement with University of California, Berkeley to Make Online Content Accessible to People with Disabilities

News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a proposed consent decree in federal court to resolve allegations that the Regents of the University of California on behalf of the University of California, Berkeley (collectively, UC Berkeley) violated Title II of the Americans with Disabilities...



Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC): Revisions in the WIC Food Packages discussed on Nov. 21 by Agriculture Department

The US Agriculture Department published a seven page proposed rule on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Jury convicts out of state woman in murder for hire case

News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A federal jury sitting in McAllen has convicted a 52-year-old woman for conspiracy to commit murder for hire, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.


The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program-Eastern Division-Rate Order No. WAPA-203 discussed on Nov. 21 by Energy Department

The US Energy Department published a nine page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


United States Repatriates More Than $20 Million in Assets Stolen by Former Nigerian Dictator

News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has transferred over $20.6 million to the government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (Nigeria) in accordance with an Aug. 23 agreement between the governments to repatriate assets the United States forfeited that were traceable to the kleptocracy of former Nigerian Dictator General Sani Abacha and his co-conspirators.


Comer: Biden Administration Officials Will be Held Accountable for the Worst Border Crisis in U.S. History

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent letters to senior leadership at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and the White House Office...


News Release: San Antonio, TX - Joel Francisco, alleged murder suspect, was arrested today by members of the U.S. Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force (LSFTF) in New Braunfels, TX.


News Release: WASHINGTON - A former police officer with the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old crime victim in violation of her constitutional rights.


The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.