News from March 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: On Feb. 26, a federal court in the Eastern District of New York issued a preliminary injunction against four Brooklyn tax return preparers and their business.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, MO - After long days spent toiling in fields under a hot Missouri sun, immigrant workers returned to what was once a county jail where their employer housed them in unsanitary living conditions and added to their misery by failing to pay them the wages they earned under their contract.
By Kaleb Brown | Mar 5, 2022
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced March 2 it was designating Sudan and redesignating South Sudan for Temporary Protected Status, citing dangerous environments in both countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department concluded today that Colorado unnecessarily segregates people with physical disabilities in nursing facilities, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Supreme Court’s decision in Olmstead v. L.C. The department’s findings , detailed in a letter to Colorado Governor Jared Polis, follow a thorough and multi-year investigation into the state’s system of care for people with physical disabilities.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: Dear Secretary Blinken: We write to express urgent concern that the Administration is working through Russian intermediaries to finalize an Iran nuclear deal without submitting it for Congressional consideration, as required by law. It is imperative that the American people, through Congress, have the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: Gregory Evans, 50, was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky, for using unlawful force against a pretrial detainee while Evans was a captain at the Madison County Detention Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: A former Hialeah Police Department Sergeant pleaded guilty today to three counts of depriving women of their civil rights under color of law by sexually abusing them.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: Yesterday, Attorney General Merrick B. Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa O. Monaco and Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta met virtually with members of FAMM and a number of individuals and their families who have been impacted by the federal criminal justice system. Department leadership had an opportunity to hear personal stories about how the new earned time credit rule and home confinement policies have changed lives.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Earlier today, Deputy Secretary of Labor Julie Su hosted an online listening session with members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters to discuss strategies for improving trucking job quality, and for retaining and recruiting drivers.
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Slovak Foreign Minister Ivan Korcok. The Secretary condemned Russia’s premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified invasion of Ukraine. The Secretary emphasized that the United States stands with all ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper, Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, proudly earned another 100 percent rating on the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) National Environmental Scorecard for his leadership fighting for transformational climate action, environmental justice, clean air, and safe drinking water for the American people.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: McLean, Va. - The National Park Service (NPS) and the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) hosted a ceremony today to officially reopen a half mile section of trail within the George Washington Memorial Parkway at Turkey Run Park. The ribbon cutting ceremony honored the contributions of more than 100...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department, together with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), today announced a civil enforcement action against B4B Earth Tea LLC, B4B Corp., and Andrew Martin Sinclair (collectively, “defendants") for alleged violations of the COVID-19 Consumer Protection Act, the FTC Act, and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: A federal court in the Southern District of New York today unsealed the first-ever criminal indictment charging a violation of U.S. sanctions arising from the 2014 Russian undermining of democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the EPW Committee, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), also a member of the EPW Committee, today introduced two pieces of legislation focused ...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) and Co-Chair of the Senate Recycling Caucus, along with Senators Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the EPW Committee, and John Boozman (R-Ark.), Co-chair of the Senate Recycling Caucus and member of the EPW Committee, introduced two pieces of legislation today focused on improving our nation’s recycling and composting systems.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Vennie Coleman, age 38, of Utica, New York, was sentenced yesterday to serve 97-months in federal prison for his role in a drug conspiracy that trafficked fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl in Utica from July 2018 through July 2019, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Oneida...
By State Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke today with Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili about the global response to the Russian government’s premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified attack on Ukraine and about Russia’s continuing occupation of Georgia.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today released the following opening statement at the hearing to consider the nominations of Christy Goldsmith Romero, Kristin N. Johnson, Summer Kristine Mersinger, and Caroline D. Pham each to be a Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.".
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2022
News Release: A federal jury convicted a Tennessee physician and his wife yesterday in the Northern District of Alabama for unlawfully distributing opioids, providing unnecessary services and defrauding insurers from their now-shuttered Alabama clinics.