News from August 2022
By DOL Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: MECHANICSBURG, PA - A Maryland residential framing contractor - cited for 136 willful, repeat, serious and other violations in 20 workplace safety inspections since 2020 - continues to expose its workers to falls from elevation, the construction industry's most lethal hazard, inspectors with the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently found.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Leon Eugene Smith, Jr., 41, of Beckley, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: Defendant allegedly sold three ghost guns he made to cooperating witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces the return of a superseding indictment charging Samuel Robert Bruner (46, North Fort Myers) with possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon. If convicted, Bruner faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison.
By Bob Pepalis | Aug 18, 2022
Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, said the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda is, “An incredibly powerful reminder of man’s inhumanity to man,” during a visit to the site Aug. 10.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: Charges Allege Approximately $30 Million Fraudulently Billed to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Ronald Rechan, 59, of Douglasville GA, who was convicted of making a false statement on a bank loan application and tax evasion, was sentenced to serve six months in prison and ordered to pay restitution totaling $628,144 by U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo released the following statement following President Biden signing the Inflation Reduction Act into law: "President Biden is securing historic victories for American families, American workers and our economy. The Inflation Reduction Act will lower cost for families, including health care and prescription drug costs, reduce the deficit, combat the climate crisis, and so much more.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: East St. Louis, Ill. - Mary M. Thornhill, 36, of Knoxville, TN, was sentenced on Wednesday, August.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal court unsealed a two-count indictment today against Monongalia County, West Virginia, Deputy Sheriff Lance Kuretza, 38, for depriving an individual of his civil rights by using excessive force and for writing a false report to cover it up.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
“INTRODUCTION OF BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS“ was published in the Senate section on page S9260 on Dec. 16, 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Heart Butte man who admitted to trafficking methamphetamine on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation was sentenced today to 38 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Authorities this morning arrested 28 members and associates of the South Los Angeles-based Eastside Playboys street gang on federal racketeering, narcotics and firearms charges. Today’s arrests stem from six grand jury indictments, one of which alleges a racketeering scheme and includes allegations of narcotics and weapons trafficking, as well as the extortion of local businesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man who injured two United States deputy marshals by crashing into them while attempting to flee in a stolen truck was sentenced in federal court today for forcibly resisting federal law enforcement officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG, The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Kyle Jones, age 25, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 18, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Balmoth Alberto Caceres-Henriquez, age 36, of Sonsonate, El Salvador, was indicted by a federal grand jury on illegal reentry charges.
By Press release submission | Aug 18, 2022
Remarks at a UN Security Council Arria-Formula Meeting on Penholdership
By Press release submission | Aug 18, 2022
Advancing a Right to a Healthy Environment Globally
By Press release submission | Aug 18, 2022
Additional U.S. Contribution to the World Food Programme
By Press release submission | Aug 18, 2022
Liechtenstein’s National Day