News from March 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Defendants Participated in Transnational Repression Schemes to Silence Critics of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Residing in the United States and Abroad - Including by Attempting to Disrupt the Campaign of a U.S. Military Veteran and Candidate for U.S. Congress in Brooklyn Who Expressed Views Critical of the PRC and by Scheming to Destroy a PRC Dissident’s Artwork Criticizing the PRC Government
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: A federal jury in the Western District of North Carolina convicted two men today for the submission of fraudulent loan applications seeking more than $1.7 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans guaranteed by the Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties held a hearing to examine the neglected epidemic of missing BIPOC women and girls. In her opening statement, Subcommittee Ranking Member Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) emphasized the importance of the hearing and how all Americans, especially...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Brady: American Dollars Will No Longer Fund Russia’s War Machine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that that DENIS J. JOACHIM, age 55, DONNA K. JOACHIM, age 55, residents of Covington, Louisiana, and their company, The Total Financial Group, Inc. (“TTFG"), having previously pled guilty, were sentenced on March 17, 2022 by United States District...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and senior Committee Member Rep. Mark DeSaulnier,
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: On International Women’s Day, we reflect on the remarkable contributions of women across our Department’s workforce, our government, our economy, culture, and society - and rededicate ourselves to our country’s never-ending pursuit of a more perfect union.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - An MS-13 member was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for RICO conspiracy and for his participation in the July 2018 murder of a teenage boy who was stabbed at least 32 times in a public park in Lynn.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A Woonsocket man convicted in September 2011on drug trafficking and firearm charges admitted in U.S. District Court on Wednesday that, while serving a term of supervised release related to that conviction, he threatened a United States Probation Officer, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Thomas Barber has sentenced James Lee Clark (61, Wilton Manors) to 48 months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bankruptcy fraud and wire fraud. Clark had pleaded guilty on Dec. 14, 2021.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
Release: MR PRICE: Good afternoon, everyone. Thanks very much for joining. This is Ned Price with the Department of State. We’re very pleased to see so many of you on screen today and we’re really gratified to have the opportunity. As you know, this will be an on-the-record (inaudible) to speak with Secretary Blinken. He’ll have some opening remarks and then he’ll go into taking your questions.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Following the government of Somalia’s failure to meet another self-established deadline of March 15 for the completion of its parliamentary electoral process, the United States is expanding the number of Somali individuals subject to visa restrictions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Cleveland, OH - Members of the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force (NOVFTF) arrested three juvenile homicide suspects at a home on Cleveland’s west side, earlier this afternoon.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: The Blue Lightning Initiative (BLI), a joint campaign of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and United States Department of Transportation (DOT), announced today the release of a new online training program to combat human trafficking in the aviation industry. The updated training...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Today, United States Attorney Chad E. Meacham presented the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces National Award for Significant Contribution to Public Safety and Security to prosecutors and agents who worked Operation Celtic Cobra.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice filed a civil lawsuit today to stop Grupo Verzatec S.A. de C.V. (Verzatec) from acquiring its biggest competitor, Crane Composites (Crane), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Crane Co. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleges that ...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will host the 22nd annual Spring Planting and Music Festival on Saturday, April 30, 2022. This festival celebrates the Appalachian way of life that has been such a huge part of the history of the Big South Fork area.
By Press release submission | Mar 18, 2022
In a letter to Dr. Alondra Nelson, who is performing the duties of the OSTP director, the Republican lawmakers call for the release of all communications made through Signal Messenger as well as all reports and communications about toxic workplace allegations.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on March 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Press release submission | Mar 18, 2022
To date, the Biden Administration has spent over $3.3 trillion taxpayer dollars, including $1.9 trillion under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, and is slated to spend another $1.2 trillion authorized under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
