News from November 2022
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Woonsocket man today admitted to a federal judge that he participated in a conspiracy that trafficked hundreds of grams of fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: A Saco woman pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Portland today to committing bankruptcy fraud, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.

By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
Release: The United States is taking further action to disrupt sanctions evasion efforts involving the sale of Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products. Specifically, the Department of the Treasury is imposing sanctions on companies based in multiple jurisdictions for their involvement in petrochemical sales...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to consider the nominations of Mr. David Crane to be Under Secretary of Energy for Infrastructure, Mr. Jeffrey M. Marootian to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and ...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: UPDATE: The Hate-Free Vermont Forum scheduled for tonight, 11/17, from 5:30-7:30PM has been postponed. The Forum to be held in St. Albans will be rescheduled for a later date, and the details of the event will be announced by press release. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause.

By DOL Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG, PA - The U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has approved a consent judgment ordering two central Pennsylvania nursing facilities to pay a total of $256,684 in back wages and an equal amount in liquidated damages to 231 nursing staff for FLSA violations found during a federal review of the employer’s pay practices.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: A federal jury convicted an Illinois woman yesterday for conspiring to defraud Medicare of over $6 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: A former police officer with the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) pleaded guilty today in federal court to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old crime victim in violation of her constitutional rights.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, an indictment and a complaint were unsealed charging Russian nationals Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova with criminal copyright infringement, wire fraud and money laundering for operating Z-Library, an online e-book piracy website. The pair was arrested...

By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: The United States is taking further action to disrupt sanctions evasion efforts involving the sale of Iranian petroleum and petrochemical products. Specifically, the Department of the Treasury is imposing sanctions on companies based in multiple jurisdictions for their involvement in petrochemical sales ...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: A second attorney and two tax professionals have been indicted in the $1 billion Garza tax shelter scheme, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division Stuart Goldberg.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoughton man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for firearm offenses.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
The US Energy Department published a three page notice on Nov. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), ranking member of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy, today urged the Biden Administration to begin the ...

By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement commending the passage of bipartisan legislation to improve oversight of the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Affordable Connectivity and Lifeline Programs.

By State Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
Release: On Nov. 15, President Biden, Indonesian President Widodo, Japanese Prime Minister Kishida and other world leaders announced the launch of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) in Indonesia, a landmark, long-term partnership designed to create an ambitious and just power sector transition in Indonesia, consistent with keeping the 1.5 °C global warming limit within reach.

By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
FY2023 NAGPRA Repatriation Grants grant opened on Nov. 18.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected six entities based in California as Partners of the Year for the agency’s Safer Choice program, recognizing their achievements in the design, manufacture, selection, and use of products with safer chemicals. The Safer Choice ...

By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Below is a statement from House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott following the announcements from Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of their intention to step down from their House Democratic Leadership positions...