News from May 2022
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: SAN JOSE - Bay Area physician Dr. Roger Wang has agreed to pay $1,033,666.42 to resolve allegations that he violated the False Claims Act by charging Medicare for non-FDA-approved drugs and associated services, announced United States Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds; Special Agent in Charge, Office of Inspector...
By Glenn Minnis | May 24, 2022
The U.S. Department of Transportation Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration instituted new rules to strengthen safety, improve response efforts and reduce emissions at pipeline shut-off valves.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - A federal grand jury in Columbia returned a 15-count indictment charging Anthony Tyrone Whitfield, 44, of Wagener, for possessing firearms and ammunition as a prohibited felon, for distribution of methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, crack cocaine, and marijuana, and for possessing and using firearms in connection with his drug distribution activities.
By EPA Newswire | May 24, 2022
There are two releases scheduled to be published on May 25.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Department of the Interior released draft guidance for eligible states and the Navajo Nation on how to apply for the first $725 million in funding available for reclaiming abandoned mine lands (AML) as part of President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. The law provides a ...
By Fed Newswire | May 24, 2022
The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: MOOSE, WY- Grand Teton National Park staff will initiate habitat restoration projects in the southern part of the park this summer as part of a multi-phase restoration effort to replace approximately 4,500 acres of former non-native grass fields with native sagebrush steppe habitat. A healthy sagebrush ecosystem in Grand Teton is vital for the diversity and abundance of native plants and wildlife species like elk, bison, moose, pronghorn, and sage grouse that rely on them.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Jordan Paul Plotner, of Charles Town, West Virginia, has admitted to a failure to register charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today issued a Business Advisory on Sudan to highlight the growing reputational risks to American businesses and individuals conducting business with Sudanese state-owned enterprises and military-controlled companies. The departments of the Treasury, State and Commerce collaborated in issuing the advisory.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN- Amiri Johnson, 28, has been sentenced to serve 120 months in federal prison for possession of a stolen firearm. Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., United States Attorney, announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KARIM ELKORANY, a former communications specialist with the United Nations (“UN") in Iraq, pled guilty before United States District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald to sexually assaulting an internationally...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: Opioids Sold by the Defendant Linked to Fatal Overdoses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Antoine Jordan-Harris, 22, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison and five years of supervised release by United States District Court Judge Karen S. Marston for his participation in a robbery of a 7-Eleven convenience store during a period of civil unrest in Philadelphia.
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: Thomas Johnson Jr. retires on May 31 after 41 years in the federal government, 30 of them in EM. He has served as the DOE Savannah River Site (SRS) deputy manager since September 2018, and as associate deputy manager at the site from 2015 to 2018. Johnson started his EM career at SRS as a remedial project...
By Press Release | May 24, 2022
Today the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation (VOC) released a bombshell report based on the to-date largest and most significant leak of internal documents from directly within Xinjiang police networks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Brighton, Massachusetts woman was sentenced in federal court today for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Carlos A. Urena, 38, of Tallahassee, Florida, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing firearms and ammunition as a convicted felon and possessing an unregistered short-barreled rifle. Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney, for the Northern District of Florida announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: Minor Victims Transported for Commercial Sex, Forced to Turn Over All Proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2022
News Release: COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA -Taurus Jermaine Dotson, 38, of Columbia, has pleaded guilty to felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a nine page proposed rule on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
