News from February 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: 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. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervise release, for distributing child pornography through the Kik social media application.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor - in collaboration with the Departments of the Treasury, State, Commerce, Homeland Security and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative - today issued a Burma Business Advisory highlighting the risks of doing business due to corruption, illicit finance and human rights abuses.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released the following statement and video on International Holocaust Remembrance Day: “When you walked into the home where I grew up, our living room shelves were filled with books of Jewish history and, regrettably and all too often tragically, histories and stories of antisemitism and violence that accompanied it.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh unveiled the Department of Labor’s “Good Jobs" initiative, a coordinated effort by Biden-Harris administration to improve job quality nationwide, during a speech today at the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ 90th Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) spoke today before the House Committee on Rules in opposition to H.R. 4521, the America Concedes Act.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today announced the names of individuals who will hold senior staff positions in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: An indictment was unsealed on Friday charging a Maryland security guard with six counts of tax evasion.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, 2022 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced Dr. Arthur D. Middleton will serve as a Senior Advisor on Wildlife Conservation at USDA.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced 22 new fields of study have been added to the STEM Optional Practical Training (OPT) program to enhance the contributions of nonimmigrant students studying in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), and support the growth of the U.S. economy and innovation.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - As National Human Trafficking Prevention Month concludes, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division continues to support the updated U.S. National Action Plan to Combat Human Trafficking by committing resources, collaborating with criminal enforcement agencies and providing outreach to combat labor trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: A woman who possessed firearms while being a user of marijuana was convicted by a jury today after a three-day trial in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM and its liquid-waste contractor at the Savannah River Site (SRS) have filled two tank farm structures with cementitious grout to complete a significant step toward the operational closure of the first high-activity liquid waste facilities at the Savannah River Site (SRS) since 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - The U.S. Department of Labor filed suit against a federal contractor that failed to ensure its subcontractors paid 3,964 employees as required at 88 Iowa sites, resulting in $3,348,543 in prevailing wage, overtime and fringe benefit back wages due. The employees removed poultry waste potentially infected with avian flu from the sites.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: FORT MYERS, FL - A Fort Myers heating, ventilating and air conditioning company paid commissions and stipends to a rotation of on-call dispatchers but failed to include those payments in the workers’ rate of pay when calculating overtime in violation of federal law, the U.S. Department of Labor has determined.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2022 – Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack issued the following statement highlighting key steps the Department of Agriculture (USDA) has taken to advance equity under the Biden-Harris Administration. Under Secretary Vilsack’s leadership, USDA has taken bold, historic action toward rooting out generations of systemic racism, deeply integrating equity in decision-making and policymaking inclusive of all USDA employees and customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Middleboro financial advisor has been charged in a superseding indictment in connection with defrauding his elderly clients and stealing the victims’ retirement assets.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - Mona Pryor, 38, has been sentenced to 148 months in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., United States Attorney announced the sentence today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: African Americans in Essex County, Massachusetts: An Annotated Guide is available only online and can be download at www.nps.gov/articles/000/african-americans-in-essex-county.htm.
By State Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: Dear Secretary Blinken: We write to express serious concerns regarding the energy deals the Biden Administration is facilitating between Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt that would undoubtedly enrich the Assad regime and trigger U.S. sanctions under the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act. As we saw...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 1, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON -The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission today launched the Hiring Initiative to Reimagine Equity with a roundtable discussion reflecting on the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
