News from February 2023
By USDA Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
Release: Washington - The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing a final rule to establish new regulations and standards governing the humane handling, care, treatment, and transportation of birds covered by the Animal Welfare Act (AWA). The final rule applies to captive birds not bred for use in research.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: ATLANTA - An administrative law judge has entered a consent order following a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that determined a wholesale plant nursery in Miami gave foreign visa workers preferential treatment over U.S. workers, and housed workers in unsafe and unhealthy conditions in Greensboro, Georgia.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands - Atlantic hurricane season is four months away, but now is the perfect time to start preparations to harden your home against damage from storms, review and update your family’s emergency plan and replenish your disaster supply kit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: Memphis, TN - Kedric Reese, 21, has been sentenced to 13 years in federal prison for carjacking, discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence and illegal possession of a stolen firearm. United States Attorney Kevin G. Ritz announced the sentence today.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 17, 2023
A Texas man has been sentenced to more than 21 years in federal prison for conspiracy to transport noncitizens resulting in the death of three people.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - After the IRS failed to fulfill a request by Congress’s top tax panel to inform the agency’s more than 80,000 employees about a new whistleblower portal for reporting misconduct and abuse within the agency, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - Eddie E. Kellom, also known as “Ace," 23, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to three years and six months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: BENTON, Ill. - A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Freeburg woman to 15 months in prison after she admitted to committing bank fraud while employed by St. Teresa and St. Luke Catholic parishes in Belleville.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Feb. 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
OVC FY 2023 Emergency and Transitional Pet Shelter and Housing Assistance Grant Program grant opened on Feb. 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: SOUTH BEND, Ind. - Alfred A. Cooke, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of Drug Enforcement Administration-Merrillville, Indiana, and U.S. Attorney Clifford D. Johnson for the Northern District of Indiana announced that Benjamin J. Hicks III, 42, of Indianapolis, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Jon E. DeGuilio on his plea of guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A doctor who owns a medical clinic in Newark today admitted defrauding New Jersey state and local health benefits programs and other insurers by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, at 2:00 p.m. MST. The hearing, "The Biden Border Crisis: Part II," will examine the Department of Homeland Security's operations at the southwest border and allow the Committee to hear testimony about the effects of illegal immigration on the Yuma community.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Todd Valentine, 53, Holmen, Wisconsin was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 12 years in federal prison for distributing 500 grams or more of methamphetamine. The prison term will be followed by 5 years of supervised release. Valentine pleaded guilty to this charge on Oct. 24, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2023
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - A Dayton man was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 250 months in prison for distributing fentanyl and cocaine that resulted in overdoses in the late hours of New Year’s Eve and into the early hours of New Year’s Day 2019.
By Tamara Browning | Feb 17, 2023
The former CEO of a biotech healthcare company has been indicted for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $10 million through misrepresentations about an ultrasound device.
