News from November 2022

By USDA Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...

By Tamara Browning | Nov 29, 2022
Applications for funding through a U.S. Department of Energy program that supports community-based clean energy will open in January 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: EVANSVILLE -Roy L. Durham Jr., 37, of Evansville, Indiana, was sentenced to 92 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to illegal possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that four defendants were arrested and charged in two separate criminal complaints with selling cocaine, fentanyl, methamphetamine and firearms in the Medina, NY, area.
By State Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Strategic Partnership between the United States and Romania. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Bucharest, Romania November 28-30 for a meeting of the NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs and will meet with senior Romanian officials, including President Klaus Iohannis and Foreign Minster Bogdan Aurescu.

By Homeland Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a two page notice on Nov. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher today sentenced Rashaud Nesmith, a/k/a Shaud, age 21, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 40 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for a racketeering conspiracy charge in connection with Nesmith’s participation in...
By State Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
Release: U.S. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom Rashad Hussain will travel to Morocco, The Gambia, and Senegal from November 28 through Dec. 1, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas- A Cleveland, Texas man and woman have been sentenced to federal prison for wire fraud violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA - A Coffee County, Ga., physician has been sentenced to five years in federal prison after he admitted to participating in a drug trafficking conspiracy that distributed massive amounts of addictive-controlled substances from pain management and addiction clinics.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Nov. 15, 2022, Michael Feinberg, 73, and Betsy Feinberg, 80, both of Tucson, Arizona, were sentenced by United States District Judge James A. Soto to 60 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. In April 2022, a jury found the Feinbergs guilty of multiple counts of securities and wire fraud.

By USDA Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: This Secretarial natural disaster designation allows the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Farm Service Agency (FSA) to extend much-needed emergency credit to producers recovering from natural disasters through emergency loans. Emergency loans can be used to meet various recovery needs including...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: A Miami business owner pleaded guilty today to willfully failing to pay over employment taxes to the IRS. The proceeding was held before U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis. A sentencing date will be set by U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: PANAMA CITY, PANAMA - After working around the clock for two weeks, the Biden-Harris administration announced today it has forged critical agreements to ensure legal, traceable and biologically sustainable international trade of wild animals and plants. U.S. government leaders met with over 2,000 representatives ...

By State Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following statement following the widespread protests in China against draconian COVID-related restrictions in the country. Reports indicate protest activities have included PRC citizens openly calling for the end of the dictatorship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and General Secretary Xi Jinping.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Olayinka Babatunde (a.k.a. “Tom"), 23, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William K. Sessions III to 36 months of imprisonment to be followed by a three-year term of supervised release after previously pleading guilty to fentanyl distribution.

By EPA Newswire Report | Nov 29, 2022
Rhode Island is receiving six of 22 community-improvement grants awarded across New England recently.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: Ten people have been indicted in an Augusta-area drug trafficking conspiracy linked to another large-scale drug trafficking prosecution.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the appointment of 28 members, 14 new and 14 returning, to the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee (CHPAC). The Agency also announced the next meeting of the committee, to be held on December 1-2, 2022. Members of ...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 29, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS- Christopher Gene Beke, 44, of Crawfordsville, Indiana, was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession of child sexual abuse material with a prior conviction.