News from February 2022
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge of the Kansas City area of responsibility and United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Krystal Smith, 30, formerly of Bruning, Nebraska, was sentenced Jan. 26, 2022 in Lincoln by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard for distribution of visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
A middle Tennessee man was sentenced in federal court yesterday to serve 35 years in federal prison for crimes related to the production of child exploitation material.
By ICE HSI task force members assist USMS in arrest of Austin man wanted for deadly stabbing | Feb 2, 2022
A central Texas man is facing homicide charges for the stabbing death of another man.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services today announced that the initial registration period for the fiscal year 2023 H-1B cap will open at noon Eastern on March 1 and run through noon Eastern on March 18, 2022.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
USCIS announced today that it is updating guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual regarding immigration medical examination requirements for certain Afghan nationals applying for adjustment of status after arriving in the United States under Operation Allies Welcome (OAW).
By Emily Bevard | Feb 2, 2022
The Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed fines in excess of $14,000 for a Wisconsin-based auto repair company after one of two employers died in a three-week span.
By Caleb Lombardo | Feb 2, 2022
The Wage and Hour Division found that the Trans Express failed to pay overtime wages to employees who picked up and transported passengers for clients of the company.
By Caleb Lombardo | Feb 2, 2022
The latest in a long line of back wage crackdowns comes at the expense of a Fort Myers air conditioning company, Sunset Air & Home Services Inc.This week, the US Department of Labor recovered $36k in back wages and damages after finding that the company used improper pay practices and victimized their employees. Wage and Hour Division District Director Nicolas Ratmiroff commented on the investigation, saying, “When employers pay commissions, differentials, certain bonuses, stipends or other incentives, they must include them in calculation of overtime pay.
By Karen Kidd | Feb 2, 2022
A toolkit to help Puerto Rico recover from multiple natural disasters can help provide education infrastructure that children in the territory deserve
By Caleb Lombardo | Feb 2, 2022
The judgement comes after the employer denied them overtime wages that were rightfully earned and then lied to federal investigators about the wages owed.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and other House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the State Department to immediately implement the bipartisan American Values and Security in International Athletics Act (AVSIA) in light of this unprecedented threat to international human rights and our values.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul has released the following, initial reaction to Speaker Pelosi ending bipartisan, bicameral negotiations to develop legislation to counter the Chinese Communist Party’s malign actions that would have the ability to pass both chambers of Congress.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul joined Margaret Brennan on Face the Nation this morning to discuss Russia’s continued aggression toward Ukraine and the Biden administration’s weak response.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy (D-FL) introduced the Prosper Africa Act to codify interagency efforts and promote, facilitate and increase two-way trade and investment between the United States and Africa.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul released a statement in response to recent North Korean missile tests.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) today announced the availability of 20,000 additional H-2B temporary nonagricultural worker visas for the first half of fiscal year (FY) 2022.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
Leonard C Boyle, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JESSICA PICKERING, 28, formerly of Waterbury, was sentenced yesterday by U.S.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
A Springfield woman pleaded guilty yesterday in connection with her involvement in a scheme to fraudulently obtain COVID-19-related unemployment assistance.Audri Ford-Victory, 61, pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud conspiracy.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Timothy Foley, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division (“DEA”), and Ricky J. Patel, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Department of Homeland Security (“HSI”), and Keechant L. Sewell, Police Commissioner for the City of New York (“NYPD”), announced today that CARLOS LAUREANO, a/k/a “Gordo,” and NNANDI BEN-JOCHANNAN, a/k/a “BJ,” were charged with the August 12, 2014 murder of Luis Perez in Harlem.
By Press release submission | Feb 2, 2022
U.S. District Judge Thomas T. Barber has sentenced Jarrett Parker Truman (25, Fort Myers) to five years in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon and for possessing an unregistered firearm.
