News from May 2022
By State Newswire | May 26, 2022
YSEALI Regional Workshop on Designing Games That Drive Social Change grant opened on May 26.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the conviction of EDWARD SHIN, then-CEO of a Pennsylvania-based bank (the “Bank"), for taking bribes in connection with the Bank’s issuance of loans that were guaranteed by the United States Small Business...
By Homeland Newswire | May 26, 2022
The US Homeland Security Department published a one page rule on May 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that on May 25, 2022 DONIESHA GIBSON (“GIBSON"), age 31, of New Orleans, Louisiana and ERICA LEE THOMPSON (“ERICA LEE"), age 47, of Harvey, Louisiana, were sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, arising out of staged automobile collisions with tractor-trailers occurring in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A former pharmacy procurement technician was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for stealing prescription HIV medications from the pharmacy of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) in East Orange, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - Former Illinois State Rep. LUIS ARROYO has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison for participating in a bribery scheme involving a fellow state lawmaker and Arroyo’s private lobbying client, a sweepstakes gaming company.
By State Newswire | May 26, 2022
There was activity on one bill related to the Foreign Relations Committee on May 25.
By State Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: The United States is deeply saddened by the death of Abdulhameed Al-Ajami, one of our retired employees who passed away in Houthi detention. Al-Ajami had no contact with his family during the last six months of his life. We express our sincerest condolences to his family and loved ones.
By EPA Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled, “Formula Safety and Supply: Protecting the Health of America’s Babies:"
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LAKISHA WILLIAMS, age 41, of New Orleans, was sentenced today to nine years in prison by U.S. District Judge Barry W. Ashe for charges stemming from her participation in a credit card fraud ring that operated in the New Orleans area. WILLIAMS...
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: Ocean Spring, MS. - Gulf Islands National Seashore phones in the Mississippi District are not working due to an issue with vendor systems. The Park is working with the vendor to repair and restore phone operations to the park.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: Miami, Florida - Federal prosecutors in Fort Pierce, Florida have charged a 38-year-old cruise ship employee from Stuart, Florida with enticing an underage girl he met on the ship into having sex with him and with producing child pornography by recording their sexual interactions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Candice Nicole Freitas, 34, formerly of Martinez, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Troy L. Nunley to seven years and 10 months in prison for bank fraud, aggravated identity theft, and possession of reproduced U.S. Postal Service keys, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: JEROME, Ida. - On Friday, May 27, the visitor center of Minidoka National Historic Site will be open for summer hours: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. MT. This year marks the 80th anniversary of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
By USDA Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: Department will temporarily cover the full cost of alternate formulas
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments yesterday. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By State Newswire | May 26, 2022
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Good afternoon, everyone. It’s a great pleasure to receive my colleague, the foreign minister of Angola, here at the State Department. We have between the United States and Angola a strong bilateral relationship but also a growing partnership on interests of - on interests that are of mutual concern - trade, health, climate, governance.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on May 27.
By DOL Newswire | May 26, 2022
News Release: Today, Workforce Protections Subcommittee Republican Leader Fred Keller (R-PA) delivered the following remarks, as prepared for delivery, at a subcommittee hearing questioning Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) predatory agenda towards job creators...
By DOL Newswire | May 26, 2022
Release: Employer name: Shen-Paco Industries Inc. 1032 Wissler Road Quicksburg, VA 22847 Investigation findings: U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found Shen-Paco Industries Inc.’s certificate that allowed the employer to pay wages below the federal minimum had expired, which ...
