News from February 2023
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Will Thompson announced today that the Southern District of West Virginia collected $3,418,522.70 in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2022. Of this amount, $1,771,403.30 was collected in criminal actions and $1,647,119.40 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Robert Colon, 32, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl before U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s full committee markup of Energy and Commerce’s Authorization and Oversight Plan for the 118th Congress.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: On February 9, the United States and Japan held the inaugural U.S.-Japan Strategic Dialogue on Democratic Resilience in Tokyo, Japan.
By State Newswire Report | Feb 10, 2023
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba about maintaining strong security and economic ties as the first anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked attack on Ukraine approaches.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: A Texas man who carried out the mass shooting at the Cielo Vista Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Aug. 3, 2019, killing 23 people and injuring 22 more, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to a 90-count indictment, including 45 counts of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and 45 counts of using a firearm during and in relation to crimes of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DILLON JORDAN, a/k/a “Daniel Jordan," a/k/a “Daniel Maurice Hatton," a/k/a “Daniel Bohler," was sentenced today to five years in prison in connection with operating a prostitution business with national...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: A Massachusetts man was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for his role in a scheme in which he accepted bribes from an Afghan company in exchange for helping it deceive the U.S. military into awarding at least 10 contracts at inflated values.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
The US Homeland Security Department published a one page rule on Feb. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
IIJA Bureau of Land Management Utah Environmental Quality and Protection grant opened on Feb. 10.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: The United States is designating nine entities, pursuant to Executive Order 13846, that are involved in Iran’s petrochemical and petroleum products trade.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, DC - After President Biden once again declared “the watchdogs are back" during the State of the Union yesterday, a hearing on unemployment insurance fraud convened by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) revealed that the federal government still does not know exactly how much money was stolen by criminals in unemployment benefits.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
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 US DOT Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
The Extensions of Remarks section of the Congressional Record published “HONORING BOBBY EVANS” on Feb. 10.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Chairwoman Maria Salazar (R-FL) released the following statement on the news that 222 political prisoners in Nicaragua, including a U.S. citizen, have been released and are en route to the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
News Release: Washington, DC - Senator Elizabeth Warren, Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter yesterday to Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen requesting that she revise the rules governing how and when the Board of Governors may delegate critical supervisory and enforcement responsibilities to Board staff.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2023
IIJA Bureau of Land Management Colorado Fuels Management and Community Fire Assistance Program grant opened on Feb. 10.
By DOL Newswire Report | Feb 10, 2023
The U.S. Department of Labor marked the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act with events and updated resources to commemorate its impact on millions of American workers and their families.
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
A Prescribed Grazing Tool for the Pacific Islands Area
By Press release submission | Feb 9, 2023
NRCS in the Pacific Islands Area Seeks Producers and Forest Land Managers for the National Water Quality Initiative Projects in Hilo Bay and Kawaihae Watersheds on Hawaiʻi Island
