News from May 2022
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Finance Committee on May 18.
By DOL Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, led a hearing on strengthening cybersecurity in the health care and education sectors to ensure that the technologies people increasingly rely on to meet with their...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Las Vegas, Nevada-based laboratory owner, who paid another lab owner to direct urine samples to his lab for testing and then billed the federal government for that testing, was sentenced last week to four months of house arrest and ordered to pay a total of $510,000 in forfeiture, restitution, and fines.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on May 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Congresswoman Ashley Hinson (R-IA), and Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (R-OK) introduced legislation today called the Babies Need Formula Now Act, to increase the baby formula supply for parents as soon as possible.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A former federal correctional officer at the Federal Correctional Institute (FCI) in Sheridan, Oregon pleaded guilty today for his role in a bribery and contraband smuggling conspiracy.
By State Newswire | May 19, 2022
Counterterrorism Financing Communications Initiative grant opened on May 19.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Yakama, WA - Vanessa R. Waldref, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that a federal Grand Jury has returned numerous indictments charging multiple individuals with various federal crimes arising in the Yakima area, including on the Yakama Nation Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - Two residents of Texas and a resident of Tennessee pleaded guilty in federal court this week for their roles in defrauding federally funded meal programs, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: The Department of Justice announced that it has reached a settlement agreement with JMJ Talent Solutions Inc. (JMJ Talent Solutions), a staffing company with four locations throughout Indiana. The settlement resolves a claim that JMJ Talent Solutions discriminated against three non-U.S. citizens because ...
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on May 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: BILLINGS - A Billings man who admitted his role in promoting commercial sex and his involvement in a drug trafficking conspiracy, which included brandishing a firearm during an assault over a botched drug deal, was sentenced today to 10 years and one month in prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: A Waterloo man who exchanged gunfire with others in Waterloo, Iowa, on July 31, 2020, was sentenced today to more than eight years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A California man was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to 25 years in prison followed by 10 years of supervised release for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, attempted distribution of methamphetamine and cocaine, maintaining a place for drug purposes and illegally possessing firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | May 19, 2022
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on May 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A former dispatcher for the Lincoln Police Department was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston on charges of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: Seven South Korea-based companies have agreed to pay $3.1 million to resolve allegations they violated the False Claims Act by engaging in a bid-rigging conspiracy that targeted U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) contracts for construction and engineering work on U.S. military bases in South Korea. ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 19, 2022
News Release: A U.S. citizen and four officials from China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) were charged in an indictment, unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn yesterday, with conspiracy and other charges related to an espionage and transnational repression scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | May 19, 2022
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Tamara Browning | May 19, 2022
The public in Hawaiʻi are being asked to help certain sea turtles lay their eggs during the nesting season that began in mid-April and will continue through September on local beaches.
