News from March 2022

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
FY 2022 Competitive Funding Opportunity: Buses and Bus Facilities Competitive Program grant opened on March 7.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: TUSKEGEE, AL - This year the Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site will host the annual Double Victory Poetry Contest. For those interested in submitting a poem to the contest you must send in your application by April 1, 2022. Please follow this link for more information.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Attempted Production of Child Pornography and Transfer of Obscene Materials to Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Jontez Xavier McLeod, 27, of Charlotte, to 141 months in prison today for carjacking and gun charges, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Whitney also ordered McLeod to serve three years under court supervision after completing his prison term and to pay restitution to the victim of the carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ANTOINE MERCHANT, age 33, of New York, New York, was sentenced on March 3, 2022 by U.S. District Court Judge Carl J. Barbier of the Eastern District of Louisiana to three (3) years of probation for conspiracy to pass altered U.S. Postal money orders, passing altered U.S. Postal money orders and possessing stolen U.S. government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: MOX Services LLC, formerly known as CB&I AREVA MOX Services LLC (MOX), located in South Carolina, has agreed to pay $10 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) false and fraudulent invoices for non-existent materials and receiving improper kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: Pharmaceutical company Mallinckrodt ARD LLC (formerly known as Mallinckrodt ARD Inc. and previously Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Questcor)) (collectively Mallinckrodt), has agreed to pay $260 million to resolve allegations that Mallinckrodt violated the False Claims Act by knowingly: 1. underpaying ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: MOX Services Agrees to Pay $10 Million to Resolve Allegations of Knowingly Presenting False Claims to Department of Energy for Non-Existent Construction Materials.
By State Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO): DRL: Laying the Groundwork for Peace in Ethiopia. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0008682. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Number: 19.345. Type...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Scott Allen Greenwalt, of Moorefield, West Virginia, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles County men today were sentenced to federal prison on conspiracy and hate crime charges for attacking five victims inside a family-owned Turkish restaurant in 2020 while shouting ethnic slurs, hurling chairs at the victims, and threatening to kill them.

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: Funds from President Biden's American Rescue Plan will provide additional support to 35 transit agencies in 18 states

By State Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
Release: The following is the text of a joint statement by the Governments of the United States of America and Bahrain.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: Homestead National Historical Park to host Women’s History Month Program.

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law includes funding to expand the availability of clean buses in communities across the country
By State Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
Release: The following is the text of a joint statement by the Governments of the United States of America and Bahrain.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - Mario Herrera, age 31, of Davenport, was sentenced on March 4,2022, to 20 years and 10 months in federal prison for his role in a drug and racketeering conspiracy that encompassed four attempted murders and a stabbing at a local bar.

By USDA Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
Minnesota (MN) Fiscal Year (FY) 22 Grant Agreement Notice of Funding Opportunity for For-Profit and Non-Profit Organizations grant opened on March 7.

By Timothy Stuckey | Mar 7, 2022
The U.S. agriculture industry's 2021 exports were the highest ever recorded, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced last month.
By State Newswire | Mar 7, 2022
Release: The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the Republic of Austria on the occasion of the U.S.-Austria Strategic Dialogue.