News from February 2022

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine -- U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland released the Justice Department’s new National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.
By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A convicted felon with a lengthy criminal history who was found illegally in possession of 14 firearms and ammunition was sentenced to prison for his crime.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
Release: Private exporters reported the following activity.

By Emily Bevard | Feb 1, 2022
A Honolulu company was ordered to pay $1.5 million to 171 security officers after a federal investigation determined the company illegally denied workers overtime pay.

By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
Conservation Collaboration Grant Agreements Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Announcement for Program Funding &- NORTH DAKOTA grant opened on Feb. 1.

By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: Matt Murray was appointed as the U.S. Senior Official for Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) in February 2022. In this role, he coordinates U.S. participation in APEC and also oversees the Office of Economic Policy in the State Department’s Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
By Emily Bevard | Feb 1, 2022
Funding from the U.S. Department of Labor will help organizations provide training and employment services to veterans at risk of or experiencing homelessness.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Feb. 1, 2022, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging Chad M. Schampers (age: 38) of De Pere, Wisconsin, with one count of wire fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, delivered opening remarks at a hearing to consider the nominations of Shalanda Young to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Nani Coloretti to...

By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
2022 Tanzania Academy for Women Entrepreneurs Implementing Partner grant opened on Feb. 1.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
There were 1,367 press releases published by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of the United States Attorneys in January.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: 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...

By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
Track II Programs grant opened on Feb. 1.

By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) and Representatives Ami Bera, M.D. (D-CA) and Steve Chabot (R-OH), Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, Central Asia, and Nonproliferation, released the following joint statement on the one-year anniversary of the Burma coup...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: ALBUQERQUE, N.M. - Fred J. Federici, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, has announced that Ready Pharmacy has agreed to a $400,000 settlement relating to civil claims brought by the Department of Justice on behalf of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) El Paso Division Regulatory Diversion Group.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: Defendant and co-conspirator submitted 100 PUA claims in others' names resulting in more than $1.2 million in payments.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
There were five press releases published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service in January.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - U.S. Attorney General Merrick B. Garland today released the Justice Department’s new National Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking pursuant to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - EM is upgrading a historic reactor at Oak Ridge to keep the facility in a safe mode until its demolition is scheduled.