News from February 2022
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2022
Release: The following is the joint statement released by the Secretary of State of the United States and the Foreign Ministers of the Governments of Japan, and the Republic of Korea.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
The U.S. Marshals – NH Joint Fugitive Task Force is very pleased to announce that “Fugitive of the Week,” Jason Lee Brewer was arrested this afternoon in Rochester, NH.
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2022
Release: MR GREUBEL: Those were our LE staff, they were not professionals. They should be professionals, but they were an embassy staff. (Applause.).
By State Newswire | Feb 12, 2022
Release: Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Akunna Cook and Prosper Africa Acting Chief Operating Officer Leslie Marbury will travel to Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, and Namibia on a State Department Prosper Africa economic diplomacy visit, February 14 - March 1. The delegation will meet with entrepreneurs...
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
The U.S. Marshals Service, Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force, in conjunction with the Atlanta Police Department, State of Georgia SWAT Team, and the North Metro SWAT Team, arrested three individuals wanted for homicide in two days.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
The Bureau of Prisons has announced a National Hiring Initiative in an effort to strengthen the future of the Federal prison system and supply jobs to those looking for employment during the pandemic.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 12, 2022
Release: ROANOKE, Va.-- A man from Pocahontas County, W. Va., was cited by police after Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers prevented him from carrying a loaded handgun onto his flight on Friday, Feb. 11, at Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
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.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
Three Hawaii-based executives of a government contractor were indicted today in the District of Columbia for allegedly making unlawful campaign contributions to a candidate for Congress and a political action committee.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
A former National Football League (NFL) player was sentenced today to five years in prison for orchestrating a nationwide scheme to defraud a health care benefit program for retired NFL players.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
A California man was arrested yesterday and will make his initial appearance in federal court today to face charges that he cyberstalked multiple young women in California in a “sextortion” campaign.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
Two individuals were arrested this morning in Manhattan for an alleged conspiracy to launder cryptocurrency that was stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a virtual currency exchange, presently valued at approximately $4.5 billion.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers on Facebook’s continued promotion of medically inaccurate anti-abortion advertisements while simultaneously censoring medically accurate information about abortions services.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
“By giving more money and power to Biden’s out-of-control Federal Trade Commission to continue its punishment of American businesses, this Democrat mega-bill’s biggest beneficiaries will be our competitors in China.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
At a meeting in the White House, U.S.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
Today, U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined U.S. Senators Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in announcing the Senate passage of the bipartisan Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, legislation that will prevent perpetrators from being able to push survivors of sexual harassment and sexual assault into the secretive, biased process of forced arbitration.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today introduced the bipartisan Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered remarks at the Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights hearing on “Abusing Chapter 11: Corporate Efforts to Side-Step Accountability Through Bankruptcy.
By Press release submission | Feb 12, 2022
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will begin field-testing new drone-traffic-management capabilities to further integrate these aircraft into the National Airspace System.
