News from April 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG, PA -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that KCF Technologies, Inc., located in State College, PA, has agreed to pay the United States $1,226,436.14 to resolve civil liability for alleged violations of the False Claims Act.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on April 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
“SENATE COMMITTEE MEETINGS” was published on page E402 of the Congressional Record on April 25.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on April 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Nathaniel Speaks, age 46, formerly of Tobyhanna, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on April 28, 2022, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani to 210 months’ imprisonment for drug distribution resulting in death. Speaks was also ordered to serve 4 years of supervised release upon release from custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOSE CABAN, a/k/a “Nene," was sentenced today to 21 years in prison for committing violent crimes in aid of racketeering and firearms offenses. In June 2018, CABAN helped shoot and paralyze an 18-year-old...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on April 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - Thermo Fisher Scientific Chemicals, Inc., an affiliate of the Waltham-based Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (Thermo Fisher), has agreed to pay $25,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act, by improperly purchasing and distributing chemicals regulated by the Act. Thermo Fisher self-disclosed these violations to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: A Cameroonian national was sentenced today to 21 months in prison and two years of supervised release for his role in a scheme to trick American consumers into paying fees for pets that were never delivered and for using the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse to extract higher fees from victims.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
Bureau of Land Management New Mexico Recreation and Visitor Services grant opened on April 29.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - The Justice Department announced today that it has settled a civil complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia against Prince George County, Virginia, and the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) to enforce employment rights guaranteed to a member of the Virginia Army National Guard, Major Mark Gunn, under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA).
By EPA Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
The Senate section of the Congressional Record published “WITHDRAWALS” on April 25.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Three Jacksonville men have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. Steven Ray McWhorter (49) was sentenced to 11 years and 4 months, Christopher Douglas Green (48) was sentenced to 10 years, and Kevin Joseph DeWitt (50) was...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
The US Justice Department published a five page notice on April 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics today released Trends and Patterns in Firearm Violence, 1993-2018. This report describes trends and patterns in fatal and nonfatal firearm violence from 1993 to 2018 and for the more recent period of 2014 to 2018. The report includes...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on April 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing commitment to Puerto Rico, Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves visited the island from April 21-22. This visit represents the latest in a series of high-level U.S. government officials travelling to the island, focusing on supporting Puerto Rico’s long-term recovery and resilience — an important priority for President Biden.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
This bill is sponsored by Rep. Joe Neguse.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Roger Handberg for the Middle District of Florida announced today that a federal grand jury in Tampa, Florida, returned a two-count indictment charging Jordan Patrick Leahy, 29, with committing hate crimes for his racially-motivated attack on a Black man who was driving along a public road in Seminole, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 29, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, joined by Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta, recognized 14 individuals, organizations and teams for their advocacy on behalf of victims of crime. The award recipients were honored during the annual National Crime Victims’ Service Awards Ceremony.
