News from January 2022
By DOL Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: FINDLAY, OH - Responding to a complaint that a Findlay auto-parts supplier was ignoring guidelines to limit employee exposure to the coronavirus and that several employees were sick, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration found the company did not enforce its own policy or federal guidelines on social distancing and mask wearing.
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
DRL Protecting the Rights of Environmental Defenders in Africa grant opened on Jan. 14.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - FEMA mitigation specialists will be on-hand at Stine Home & Yard in Walker from Jan. 18 to 22.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Wednesday, January 19 at 2:00 PM ET, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform Republicans and the Congressional Western Caucus will host a virtual joint forum on rising American energy prices titled, “Holding the Biden Administration Accountable for Skyrocketing Prices & Failing Energy Policies."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Trini E. Ross announced today that Takeya Rainey, 45, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, oxycodone, hydrocodone, and amphetamine, was sentenced to time served and five years’ supervised release by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The defendant was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $1,304.89 to Medicare Part D; Medicaid; Fidelis Care, and Independent Health.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: MADISON, Wis. - John G. McGarry, Assistant Special Agent in Charge for Drug Enforcement Administration-Wisconsin, and Timothy O'Shea, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that three indictments have been unsealed charging a total of 10 people with participating in a cocaine conspiracy. The indictments were returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison on Jan. 5, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross and Timothy Foley, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, announced that Takeya Rainey, 45, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, oxycodone, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jorge Chavez, 36, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 16 years and eight months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
Release: Jan. 14, 2022 - The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed highly pathogenic Eurasian H5 avian influenza (HPAI) in a wild American wigeon in Colleton County, South Carolina. Eurasian H5 HPAI has not been detected in a wild ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement on news that the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), at the request of US authorities, arrested members of the REvil ransomware gang and shut down their operations - including those responsible for the Colonial Pipeline, JBS Foods, and Kaseya ransomware attacks...
By State Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
U.S. Embassy Timor-Leste FY22 Program Statement grant opened on Jan. 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: Jackson, Miss.- A Jackson man was sentenced to 5 years in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Darren LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that two Kyle, South Dakota, men have been charged in federal court with First Degree Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: BOISE, Idaho- A Caldwell man was sentenced to 108 months in federal prison for distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: Steven Michael Braithwaite, Adam Thomas Braithwaite and their company Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services LLC (NRCS) were sentenced today in Omaha, Nebraska, for willful violations of worker safety standards that resulted in two worker deaths, knowing violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
WaterSMART: Desalination Construction Projects Under the WIIN Act grant opened on Jan. 14.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, NY - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross and Timothy Foley, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, announced that Nikita Burt, 38, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with being a felon in possession of firearms. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Jorge Chavez, 36, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 16 years and eight months in prison for possessing with intent to distribute methamphetamine, heroin, cocaine and marijuana, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: NEW YORK CITY -Timothy Foley, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division, Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Keechant Sewell, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department, announced that Sucre...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 14, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Perry Santillo, 41, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit mail fraud, mail fraud, and conspiracy to launder money, was sentenced to serve 210 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. Santillo was also ordered to pay restitution totaling $102,952,582.77.
