News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a mark-up to advance nominees to the Department of Education (ED), Department of Labor (DOL), and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC).
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, highlighted how critical it is to listen to health care workers and address the steep challenges they continue to face during the pandemic at a HELP Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety hearing chaired by Senator Hickenlooper (D-CO).
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) Chair of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), and Assistant Speaker of the U.S. House Katherine Clark (D-MA-5), introduced the Higher Education Access and Success for Homeless and Foster Youth Act to remove barriers and provide support to help students experiencing homelessness and students in foster care access and succeed in higher education.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing on overcoming barriers to employment for workers with disabilities and building on recent progress, including the widespread use of inclusive practices to make work more accessible—like flexible schedules and remote options
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chair, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and Ranking Member, Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), announced they are working in a bipartisan way to reauthorize, improve, and expand federal mental health and substance use disorder programs.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Today, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) held a hearing titled, “Lessons Learned from COVID-19: Highlighting Innovations, Maximizing Inclusive Practices and Overcoming Barriers to Employment for People with Disabilities.”
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2022
Release: Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa David Satterfield will travel to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 13-14. Special Envoy Satterfield will meet with Ethiopian government, African Union, and United Nations officials, as well as representatives of humanitarian organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2022
News Release: Zen Solutions Inc., a Virginia-based company, has agreed to pay approximately $31,000 in damages and civil penalties to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by obtaining more than one Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan in 2020. Zen Solutions also agreed to repay the duplicative ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 13, 2022
News Release: The Flagstaff Area National Monuments will host a birding event from February 18th-21st, 2022 in conjunction with the 25th annual Great Backyard Bird Count. The Great Backyard Bird Count was started in 1998 by the Cornell Ornithology Lab and the Audubon Society and is the oldest citizen science event focused on wild birds. More information about the project is available at www.birdcount.org.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2022
News Release: A New York man pleaded guilty today to tax evasion and a wire fraud conspiracy.
By State Newswire | Feb 13, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. I am very grateful to my colleagues, Foreign Ministers Hayashi and Chung, for a very productive set of meetings today. And it’s good to be not just with colleagues, but with friends. (Inaudible.).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2022
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Florida doctor yesterday in the Southern District of Florida for a health care fraud scheme that billed private health insurance companies approximately $110 million for addiction treatment services that were not medically necessary. This is the second trial conviction to arise out of the Justice Department’s Sober Homes Initiative.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that David Boyle, 44, Wausau, Wisconsin pleaded guilty and was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge James Peterson to 18 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of firearms.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Steven Carrillo pleaded guilty today to murder and attempted murder in connection with the May 29, 2020, drive-by shooting at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Calif., an event that resulted in the death of Protective Services Officer Dave Patrick Underwood and the wounding of a second security contra
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
The Charlotte Division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives today called on ATF’s National Response Team to begin a joint investigation of a major structural fire at an apartment complex in Charleston, S.C.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Acting U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that a federal grand jury returned an eighteen-count superseding indictment charging 13 individuals as part of a drug trafficking conspiracy that sought to distribute approximately 16 kilograms of fentanyl, nearly 10 kilograms of methamphetamine and other controlled substances in the Akron area.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
A federal jury in Abingdon convicted a Georgia man yesterday for conspiring to traffic methamphetamine from Georgia into Southwest Virginia.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
Two Rockholds, Kentucky, men, Jake Messer, 38, and George Oscar Messer, 62, have been convicted by federal juries sitting in London, of two counts of kidnapping.
By Press release submission | Feb 13, 2022
A Cedar Park man was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison today for possessing parts of a destructive device, a Molotov cocktail, with the intent to construct such a device during an evening protest in Austin on May 30, 2020.
