News from February 2022
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called on seven scientists who...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: Two attorneys and a Savannah man have been indicted on multiple felony charges in the Southern District of Georgia for a wide-ranging COVID-19 relief fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Bureau of Land Management Colorado Plant Conservation and Restoration Management grant opened on Feb. 3.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: DURHAM, N.C. - Aspirar Pharmacy, LLC and Aspirar Pharmacy of Durham, LLC (collectively Aspirar Pharmacy), located in Cary and Durham, North Carolina, respectively, have agreed to pay the United States $100,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the Controlled Substances Act from 2017-2018 by filling prescriptions for a physician who lacked a valid state license.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - Robert Bell, Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Chicago Division, and U.S. Attorney John Lausch, Jr., of the Northern District of Illinois announced the arrest of a man on a federal drug charge after law enforcement seized fentanyl and a “pill press" in his suburban Chicago residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: SAN DIEGO - Naval seaman Sergio Reinaldo Williams pleaded guilty in federal court today, admitting that he sent graphic sexual messages via social media to a civilian woman and members of her family, posted sexual videos of her on Pornhub.com without her knowledge or consent, and sent screenshots of the Pornhub.com videos to the victim’s niece.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: According to a new report released today by the U.S. Census Bureau, the majority (70.1%) of the nation’s childrenunder age 18 lived with two parents, 21.4% lived with their mother, 4.4% with their father, and 4.0% did not live with a parent in 2019. While most of the children living with two parents...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
NMFS West Coast Region Education and Outreach Program grant opened on Feb. 3.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: HENDERSON, TX - A federal investigation into fatal injuries suffered by an 86-year-old worker at a Henderson sawmill and pallet manufacturer found the company exposed workers to hazardous energy sources and lack of machine guarding.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - Lance Cojo, 35, of Mescalero, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, appeared in federal court on Feb.1 for a preliminary and detention hearing on charges of assault resulting in substantial bodily injury to an intimate partner and assault of an intimate partner by strangulation in Indian Country. Cojo will remain in custody pending trial, which has not been scheduled.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
FY 2022 High Priority Program &- Innovative Technology Deployment (HP-ITD) grant opened on Feb. 3.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm announced the four winners in Phase 1 of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lighting Prize (L-Prize® ) at the Building Technologies Office’s annual Solid-State Lighting Workshop. The L-Prize® is a $12.2 million prize lighting competition launched...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) is working with local, state, and federal law enforcement partners to provide essential public safety measures in and around the Los Angeles area. Measures include, but are not limited to, investigating human trafficking and intellectual property rights...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG, The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ajear Anthony Miller-Carter, age 22, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury for a firearm offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Nicholas W. Chase announced that U.S. District Court Chief Judge Peter D. Welte sentenced John Thomas Poitra, age 32, Belcourt, ND, to 7 years in federal prison for carjacking,18 U.S.C. § 2119. Chief Judge Welte also sentenced Poitra to three years supervised release, a $100 Special Assessment, and restitution of $496.24 to the victim of the carjacking and $1,188.00 to the Minnesota Counties Intergovernmental Trust (police vehicle damages).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened today’s roundtable on “Examining the Washington Football Team’s Toxic Workplace Culture" by emphasizing the need for Democrats to redirect their focus towards conducting proper oversight over the Biden Administration’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Yutong Zhang, 63, of Berwyn, PA, a physician, pleaded guilty before United States District Court Judge Michael M. Baylson to charges stemming from his operation of what was, in essence, a ‘pill mill’ rather than a medical practice focused on pain management located in St Davids, PA.
By State Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good evening, everyone. Foreign Minister Korčok, Defense Minister Nad’ - Ivan, Jaroslav - welcome. I am so pleased to have you here at the State Department today in Washington. We just had very good consultations on the many issues that bring us together.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that an Atlanta, Georgia man, who was an inmate serving time in the Georgia Department of Corrections at the time of his crimes, has pleaded guilty to a wire fraud conspiracy in the Western District of Louisiana. Andre Deaveon Reese, 32, entered his guilty plea before United States District Judge Donald E. Walter on Jan. 28, 2022.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2022
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Biden Administration’s launch of the new Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB), a Board comprised of representatives from the Federal government (including DOD, DOJ, CISA, NSA, FBI), security firms, software suppliers, and other private sector organizations, to investigate “significant cyber incidents":
