News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: A Maryland woman was sentenced today to three years in prison for preparing false tax returns for District of Columbia residents as part of a nationwide tax fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Great Sand Dunes is actively recruiting energetic, committed young adults who are interested in a career with a federal land agency for this year’s Conservation Internship Program. The internship program recruits young adults from San Luis Valley communities to work at Great Sand Dunes National Park...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Medicare reimbursement consultant Ted Albin and his wholly-owned consulting and billing firm Grapevine Billing and Consulting Services Inc. (Grapevine), both based in Stuart, Florida, have agreed to pay $50,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act. This settlement resolves allegations ...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the employer involved in a February 2021 double fatality at a downtown Boston worksite and his successor company again for failing to provide employees with essential and required safeguards, this time at an East Boston residential construction site.
By Andy Nghiem | Feb 16, 2022
The U.S. Department of State recently announced that it has updated its list of critical and emerging technologies (CETS) to inform the U.S. approach to technological competitiveness and national security.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A Texarkana father and son have been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking and firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: The Defendant Possessed More than a Kilogram of Narcotics, Including Fentanyl Methamphetamine Mixture and Heroin.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ranking Member, today announced that the Committee will hold a hearing titled “Examining Digital Assets: Risks, Regulation, and Innovation".
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Three men were sentenced yesterday in the Middle District of North Carolina for fraudulently seeking over $2.7 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Opening remarks, as prepared, of Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management Ranking Member Daniel Webster (R-FL) from today’s hearing entitled, “FEMA Priorities for 2022: Stakeholder Perspectives":
By DOL Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to the March 25, 2020, reauthorization of the Older Americans Act through the Supporting Older Americans Act of 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor today published two notices to revise its Senior Community Service Employment Program regulations to conform to the changes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A California man was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for conspiracy and manufacturing, distributing, and possessing with intent to manufacture and distribute a fentanyl analogue, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
Design and Implementation of the English Micro-scholarship Programs in Uzbekistan grant opened on Feb. 16.
By Press release submission | Feb 16, 2022
Today, the last group of Afghan nationals temporarily housed at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin as part of Operation Allies Welcome (OAW) departed the base.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: Brady Warns Dems’ Crippling Tax Hikes are Still on the Table.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Santa Barbara County man was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison for crashing a stolen Jeep near Vandenberg Air Force Base while under the influence of drugs, killing one motorist and severely injuring another.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - On Feb. 16, 2022, a federal grand jury indicted Chuny Ann Reed, age 46, for distribution of crack cocaine (cocaine base) and fentanyl, and distribution of cocaine base and fentanyl resulting in serious bodily injury to another person. These charges were a result of an investigation that...
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken met today with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Washington, D.C. Secretary Blinken and Prime Minister Rama celebrated the 100th anniversary of U.S.-Albanian diplomatic relations and the Secretary praised Albania’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: A doctor licensed in the states of Oklahoma and Texas pleaded guilty Wednesday for writing and referring compounded drug prescriptions in return for illegal kickback payments, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 16, 2022
News Release: PORT ARTHUR, TX - The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against a Florida security contractor that terminated a worker after they raised concerns in a work group chat on a secure messaging app about safe firearm storage and coronavirus-related workplace hazards, including a lack of physical distancing and other potential exposure risks.
