News from March 2022
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
Release: We condemn Russian authorities’ politically-motivated conviction and sentencing of opposition leader Aleksey Navalny on additional spurious charges to nine more years in a high security prison. This outlandish prison term is a continuation of the Kremlin’s years-long assault on Navalny and on his movement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: De Motte Man Sentenced to 180 Months in Prison.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.- House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY) released the following statement after President Joe Biden signed H.R. 1667, Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act, and H.R. 189, the John Lewis NIMHD Research Endowment Revitalization Act of 2021.
By Bob Pepalis | Mar 22, 2022
The U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security publicly identified any aircraft that has flown into Russia in violation of the Export Administration Regulations, the Department reported March 18.
By Bob Pepalis | Mar 22, 2022
A federal court in Massachusetts ordered a Weymouth restaurant owner to pay $344,798 in back wages and damages to 13 workers who were reportedly denied overtime and tips they earned, according to a Feb. 11 U.S. Department of Labor news release.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: New funding opportunity helps underserved communities turn waste into a resource for a clean and equitable energy economy.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - With opioid-related overdoses linked to 3,237 deaths in Ohio in 2018 , and the state’s neonatal units reporting higher rates of newborns suffering opioid withdrawal, opioid abuse remains a serious health emergency.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM and its contractor partners at the Hanford Site recently hosted an online job fair that attracted more than 1,500 participants.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Chico Terrell Bell, 41, of Shreveport, Louisiana, has been sentenced by Chief United States District Judge S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. to 112 months (9 years, 4 months) in prison, followed by 4 years of supervised release, for possession with intent to distribute 5 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
Release: At a high-level dialogue on March 22 in San José, Costa Rica, Under Secretary Jose W. Fernandez and Assistant Secretary Monica P. Medina announced U.S. government support for the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Mark Wayne Ramsey, 32, of San Francisco, CA, was sentenced to 60 days in prison, three years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine by United States District Judge Gene E.K. Pratter for his participation in an insider trading scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Hanover, Maryland, man was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for making false statements in an attempt to acquire 11 firearms.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: The Department of State is taking action against PRC officials for their involvement in repressive acts against members of ethnic and religious minority groups and religious and spiritual practitioners inside and outside of China’s borders, including within the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Dennis Lee Boyce, of Fairmont, West Virginia, has admitted a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
Release: Our partnership with, and commitment to, the people of Ukraine is steadfast and enduring. To that end, the Department of State has coordinated with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to provide necessary life-saving and immediate care to four Ukrainian children whose ongoing cancer treatment was disrupted ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.3 million grant to the city of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, for wastewater infrastructure improvements.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has extended the public review period on the Harris Acquisition Environmental Assessment which analyzes a proposed purchase of a 275-acre private land parcel, located 5 miles east of downtown Boise, that has been directly offered to the BLM by the owner.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - DeAngelo Copeland has been sentenced for selling heroin and admitting that his act of distribution resulted in the overdose death of a college student in April 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced that United Parcel Service Inc. (UPS) has agreed to pay approximately $5.3 million to resolve its potential liability under the False Claims Act for falsely reporting information about the transfer of U.S. mail to foreign posts or other intended recipients under contracts with the U.S. Postal Service (USPS). UPS is an international package delivery company incorporated in Delaware with headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Court Judge Sarah E. Pitlyk sentenced former St. Louis Metropolitan Police Officer Brad Stephens to one year and one day in federal prison for 3 counts of Mail Fraud by obtaining taxpayer moneys from the Tower Grove South Concerned Citizen Special Business District (“Tower Grove South") by means of material false representations. Stephens pleaded guilty on December 6, 2021.
