News from March 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida-United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Eurich Z. Griffin III has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States by promoting a tax fraud scheme and helping others prepare and file false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Griffin faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Karen Kidd | Mar 15, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not yet issued an update following public listening sessions earlier this month on a draft strategy to reduce lead exposures and disparities in local communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A North Hollywood man has agreed to plead guilty to acting as an unlicensed gun broker by selling 16 rifles and handguns - many without serial numbers - as well as various firearms accessories over a seven-week period.
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke yesterday with Iraqi Kurdistan Region (IKR) Prime Minister Masrour Barzani. Secretary Blinken expressed support for the Kurdistan Regional Government and condemned the Iranian missile attacks near Erbil ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., will convene a hearing on Thursday, March 17, to examine charitable giving and trends in the nonprofit sector. The hearing will take place at 10:00 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: “The BLM Elko District thanks NDOW, the volunteers and the students from Wells High School who are supplying the sage brush seedlings to restore wildlife habitat lost in the Cedar Fire," said Casey Addy, Supervisory Natural Resource Specialist - Fire Rehabilitation.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Fla., March 15, 2022 - On Saturday, April 2, park partners and nonprofits will present the Inaugural 7 Creeks Fest and the community is invited to celebrate and explore the 7 Creeks Recreation Area. Timucuan Parks Foundation, North Florida Land Trust, the City of Jacksonville, Florida State...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
Release: BOSTON - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers stopped a woman from carrying a loaded firearm onto an airplane at Boston Logan International Airport (BOS) on Monday, March 14.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
“LEGISLATIVE SESSION“ was published in the Senate section on pages S1096-S1105 on March 10
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Christopher Myers, 30, of St. Louis, Missouri appeared before United States District Court Judge John A. Ross on today’s date. Myers pleaded guilty to willfully depriving another of their civil rights by damaging the property of former undercover police officer Luther Hall, while acting under color of law. Judge Ross then sentenced Myers to a year of probation.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA-07) joined Leah Griffin, a Washington state constituent and survivor advocate, to highlight how key provisions of the Survivors’ ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million grant to the city of Springdale, Arkansas, to extend Dixieland Road in the northern portion of the city. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Omar Feliciano-Estremera, 44, of Trenton, today admitted participating in a string of armed robberies of businesses in New Jersey and Pennsylvania in May and June of 2019, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Six Patrons Also Sentenced to Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Defendants allegedly defrauded donors and grant issuers, the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance and a mortgage lending business.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.5 million grant to the city of Tonganoxie, Kansas, to construct a water tower. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: ANCHORAGE - Following a three-week trial in U.S. District Court, a federal jury convicted an Anchorage man on charges of murder in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise, using a firearm to commit murder in a drug trafficking crime, drug conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX - Federal and contractor leadership serving on a panel at the 2022 Waste Management Symposia last week discussed the progress of liquid waste treatment facilities at three EM sites as they work to meet cleanup commitments.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2022
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that Angelo Kanaris, 42, of Strongsville, Ohio, was sentenced on Monday, March 14, 2022, by U.S. District Judge Christopher A. Boyko to six months in prison, six months of home confinement and ordered to pay $87,068 in restitution to the IRS after Kanaris pleaded guilty to a Bill of Information charging him with one count of bank fraud and four counts of filing a false tax return.
By Kaleb Brown | Mar 15, 2022
Homeland Security Investigations announced Bryan Morse, 61, of Chadron, Neb., had been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison with an additional 20 years of supervised release for the possession of child pornography, in a March 7 news release.
