News from March 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ERIN VERESPY was sentenced to 66 months in prison for her participation in a widespread, $33 million scheme to misappropriate client healthcare funds and defraud multiple lenders through her role as...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on President Biden’s FY2023 budget request...
By Glenn Minnis | Mar 28, 2022
Citing the guidance of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Biden Administration has extended the public transportation mask mandate until April 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of the City of Worcester’s Housing Development Office and Executive Office of Economic Development was sentenced today in federal court in Worcester for her role in a $2.3 million fraud scheme relating to the redevelopment of a multi-family property in Worcester.
By Press release submission | Mar 28, 2022
TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY – 2021 Private nonfarm business sector total factor productivity (TFP) increased 3.2 percent in 2021, the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Mark Beale, 75, of Las Cruces, New Mexico, pleaded guilty on March 25 in federal court to unlawful dispensing and distributing of a schedule II controlled substance. Beale will remain on conditions of release pending sentencing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Palm Springs man with a long criminal record and who previously claimed to have led a Coachella Valley street gang was sentenced today to 260 months in federal prison after admitting he sold distribution quantities of methamphetamine on five occasions.
By State Newswire | Mar 28, 2022
Strengthening Poder Judicials Ability to Detect, Deter, and Prevent Corruption grant opened on March 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-The operator of a Portland area animal rescue, rehabilitation, boarding, and adoption company is facing federal charges for her role in a conspiracy to defraud customers and for illegally dispensing animal drugs.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 28, 2022
AL NRCS Technical Outreach and Education FY22 grant opened on March 28.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Natural Resources Committee Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today announced a new markup date and time-Wednesday, April 6, 2022, at 10:00 a.m. Eastern time-for the RESPECT Act (H.R. 3587 ) at an in-person press conference in the Longworth House Office Building....
By State Newswire | Mar 28, 2022
Release: MODERATOR: Good afternoon, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. We are starting now the last chapter of the Negev Summit, which are the press statements by all six foreign ministers. First to address us is our host, Foreign Minister of the State of Israel His Excellency Yair Lapid.
By Press release submission | Mar 28, 2022
U.S. Customs and Border Protection employees working at Houston Field Office area ports discovered an assortment of prohibited and illegal items in luggage and cargo at airports in Houston and Austin.
By State Newswire | Mar 28, 2022
Release: Today, Acting Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Lisa Peterson hosted the 2022 U.S.-EU Human Rights Consultations in Washington, D.C. EU Special Representative for Human Rights Eamon Gilmore led the European Union delegation for this series of meetings.
By Press release submission | Mar 28, 2022
Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Border Patrol agents interdicted two narcotics smuggling attempts resulting in the seizure of more than 731 pounds of marijuana.
By Ariana Chiarenza | Mar 28, 2022
U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington Vanessa R. Waldref recently announced the creation of a new COVID-19 Fraud Strike Force aimed to combat fraud arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Press release submission | Mar 28, 2022
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol (RGV) agents disrupted three migrant smuggling attempts resulting in 36 arrests. On March 21, Kingsville Border Patrol Station agents working at the Javier Vega Jr. Border Patrol Checkpoint referred a tractor hauling a refrigerated trailer to the secondary inspection area following a K-9 alert.
By Press release submission | Mar 28, 2022
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Air and Marine Operations (AMO) agents intercepted a center console vessel near Cabo Rojo, finding 695 pounds (315.4 Kilos) of cocaine inside its hull and one firearm.
By Press release submission | Mar 28, 2022
Rio Grande Valley (RGV) Border Patrol agents interdicted two narcotics smuggling attempts resulting in the seizure of more than 574 pounds of marijuana.
