News from March 2022
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it reached a settlement with Bianchi Home Care Inc. (Bianchi), a home care provider based in Washington state. The settlement resolves the department’s claims that Bianchi violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) when it discriminated against non-U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Louisiana-based company Power Performance Enterprises Inc. (PPEI) and its President and owner, Kory B. Willis, pleaded guilty to criminal charges today in federal court in Sacramento, California. Both defendants pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Clean Air Act and to violating the Clean Air Act by tampering with the monitoring devices of emissions control systems of diesel trucks.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is continuing its multi-year education and enforcement initiative to increase compliance with federal labor laws in the Southeast’s agricultural industry. In addition to enforcement activity, the initiative provides compliance assistance to employers and educates workers and other stakeholders.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today sent invitations to the chief executive officers of three fossil fuel companies-EOG Resources, Devon Energy Corporation, and Occidental Petroleum-to testify at a Committee on Natural Resources hearing to be held Tuesday, April 5 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Two Individuals and Four Companies Indicted for Price Fixing DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs Sold on the Amazon Marketplace.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), delivered the following remarks at a nominations hearing.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a supplemental award of $800,000 in funds to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands’ Department of Labor - Workforce Investment Agency Division to support continued pandemic-related, disaster-relief employment.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: SAN ANTONIO, TX - US Park Rangers of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park are seeking information from the public to help identify those responsible for recent vandalism and forced entry into historic churches. Park officials report that several incidents occurred at Mission Concepcion and Mission San Juan between March 12 and March 17, 2022.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Former Logan Police Department Officer Everett Maynard, 45, was sentenced to nine years in prison and three years of supervised release for violating an arrestee’s civil rights by using excessive force against him.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
Conservation Innovation Grants State Program grant opened on March 18.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: HARTFORD, CT - A federal court entered a consent order that requires two Fairfield County restaurants and their owners - who used threats of retaliation to coerce nine workers to kick back thousands of dollars of back wages and liquidated damages recovered by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division - to pay $150,000 to those employees.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that WILSON ROMERO, age 55, of Katy, Texas, was sentenced on March 17, 2022 by United States District Judge Barry W. Ashe after previously pleading guilty to violations of the Federal Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Sito Aeroplan Nalwood, 33, of Chinle, Arizona, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Michael T. Liburdi to nineteen years in prison. Nalwood previously pleaded guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The owner and operator of The Tax Company in Corpus Christi is set to appear in federal court on charges of tax fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal criminal case filed yesterday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California charges Dhirendra Prasad with defrauding his former employer Apple, Inc. of millions of dollars and with money laundering and tax evasion, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Mark H. Pearson.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), and Oversight Republicans sent a letter to Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) urging Democrats to cease their baseless, partisan investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - An off-duty police officer from Virginia pleaded guilty today to a felony charge related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, which disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress that was in the process of ascertaining and counting the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By Kaleb Brown | Mar 18, 2022
The U.S. Department of Energy announced March 14 that $30 million was being allotted to fund more than 30 retrofit projects which will test quick, inexpensive and low-carbon building renovations in the affordable housing sector across the U.S.
