News from March 2022
By David Hutton | Mar 31, 2022
Representatives from the U.S. and Canada met recently to begin the process of re-establishing the Cross-Border Crime Forum (CBCF) and discuss how the two nations can work together to tackle cross-border crime and make their communities safer.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former coal company executive was arrested today on charges of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), laundering funds, and receiving kickbacks as part of an alleged scheme to pay bribes to government officials in Egypt in connection with contracts with an Egyptian state-owned and state-controlled company, Al Nasr Company for Coke and Chemicals (Al Nasr).
By EPA Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered remarks at today’s Health Subcommittee hearing entitled “FDA User Fee Reauthorization: Ensuring Safe and Effective Medical Devices."
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: Obed Wild & Scenic River is initiating a new volunteer program this year for river cleanup.
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman spoke today with French MFA Secretary General Francois Delattre, German MFA Political Director Tjorven Bellmann, Italian MFA Secretary General Ettore Sequi, and UK Minister of State for Europe and North America ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that a federal jury convicted Devonte L. Fellows, 26, of Cleveland, Ohio, on Friday, March 25, 2022, of distributing fentanyl that led to the death of an individual. The jury returned the verdict after a four-day trial before Judge Donald C. Nugent in Cleveland.
By Andy Nghiem | Mar 31, 2022
The Transportation Security Administration is seeing a rise of travelers trying to bring firearms through security checkpoints at Oklahoma airports.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that JARED MATTHEW NOSEEP, 24, of Fort Washakie, Wyoming pleaded guilty to two counts of assault by strangulation on March 29, 2022, before United States District Court Chief Judge Scott W. Skavdahl. Sentencing has been set for June 17, 2022.
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Monica P. Medina will travel to Houston, Texas, from March 31 to April 1, to participate in discussions on protecting our ocean and fighting plastic pollution at the 31st Annual Conference of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ). These discussions will set the stage for the Our Ocean Conference which the United States will co-host with Palau in Koror, April 13-14.
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
Strengthening Anti-Corruption Supervisory Institutions (SACSI) grant opened on March 31.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.6 million grant to the Bedford County Development Authority, Bedford, Pennsylvania, to construct a new 24,000-square foot, multi-tenant building at Bedford County Business Park I to support manufacturing businesses. This grant is funded by the American Rescue Plan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Ronald Lopez, 29, of Albuquerque, made an initial appearance in federal court on March 30 facing a charge of bank robbery. Lopez will remain in custody pending a detention hearing scheduled for April 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Swampscott man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with a scheme to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by falsely inflating taxpayer’s federal income tax refunds and diverting a portion of those refunds to accounts he and his co-conspirators controlled.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Bipartisan legislation authored by U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI) and John Cornyn (R-TX) to require the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to provide voluntary cybersecurity resources to commercial satellite owners and operators has advanced in the Senate. Commercial...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) spoke before the Rules Committee during a hearing on H.R. 6833, an attempt by Democrats to revive socialist drug pricing in the tax and spending spree and give Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) a pass to keep hiding savings from patients.
By State Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: AMBASSADOR AUBIN: (In progress) you’ve been here since then as deputy, and we are so thrilled that you could be here today as the Secretary of State.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A former Puerto Rico legislator and two employees who worked in his office pleaded guilty this week to engaging in a bribery and kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: Defendants billed Medicare for expensive and unnecessary urine drug testing.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: HONOLULU - This week in Hawaiʻi, Department of the Interior leadership convened a workshop with federal partners and teams from several of the U.S. Territories - American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands - to discuss strategies to support the successful implementation of projects supported by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in the U.S. Territories.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2022
News Release: United States Attorney Bob Murray announced today that SHANE DUANE BLACKBURN, age 33, of Fort Washakie, Wyoming pleaded guilty to carjacking and assaulting a federal officer during a change of plea hearing on March 8, 2022 before Chief United States District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl. Sentencing has been set for May 27, 2022.
