News from April 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Brookings, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Attempted Enticement of a Minor Using the Internet.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: Join a ranger at Indiana Dunes National Park’s Heron Rookery on Saturday, April 23rd and 30th, from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm for two-hour woodland wildflower hikes. The Heron Rookery is one of the best locations in the region to see spring wildflowers. Be prepared for muddy conditions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: Today, a Texas man was convicted of obstructing a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation, following an eight-day trial in the Eastern District of Texas.
By Kaleb Brown | Apr 19, 2022
Federal Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle ruled April 18 that the longstanding mask requirement for public transportation was "unlawful," reporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention exceeded its authority and failed to properly make rules.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today led her Republican colleagues on the committee in a letter to Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works Michael Connor expressing strong opposition to the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) decision to formally review Nationwide Permit (NWP) 12, the Corps’ general permit for oil or natural gas pipeline activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Marshals Service Capital Area Regional Fugitive Task Force is seeking the public’s help and offering up to $2,000 for information that will lead to the arrest of a man wanted in connection with a shooting death at a Hopewell convenience store April 3.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
There were three press releases published by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in February.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Portland area housekeeper pleaded guilty today for perpetrating a scheme to steal funds intended to help small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: Alamosa County and the Federal Highway Administration Central Federal Lands Highway Division (FHWA-CFLHD), in cooperation with the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, will be constructing improvements to Lane 6 North between Mosca, CO and the national park. The route is approximately 16 miles...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on April 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia alleging that Steve’s Towing Inc. in Virginia Beach, Virginia, violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by failing to obtain court orders before auctioning off vehicles belonging to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CARLTON FOX, 37, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to possession of firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By State Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
Release: The United States joins the international community in expressing outrage in response to today’s heinous attacks on the Mumtaz Education Center and the Abdul Rahim Shahid school in Kabul, Afghanistan. We offer sincere condolences to the families and other loved ones of those killed in these cowardly acts. The perpetrators must be brought to justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: A Louisiana woman was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to defraud the United States and helping clients file false tax returns.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a three page rule on April 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Pierre, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By Bob Pepalis | Apr 19, 2022
A Bayville, New Jersey commercial landscaping company must pay $181,670 in back wages and a little more than $38,000 in civil penalties for failing to pay 47 temporary workers prevailing wages or overtime.
By Ariana Chiarenza | Apr 19, 2022
Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas honored Department of Homeland Security employees April 7 during the annual Secretary’s Awards.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - A Florida man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to threatening a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Roger B. Handberg for the Middle District of Florida made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Luke Marshall Wenke, 29, of Olean, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to cyberstalking. The charges carry a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
