News from February 2023
By Commerce Newswire Report | Feb 16, 2023
At the Feb. 14 Senate Banking Committee hearing on cryptocurrency, Lee Reiners, policy director of the Duke Financial Economics Center at Duke University, said in his witness testimony that in order to move forward with comprehensive cryptocurrency regulation, Congress must take action on defining cryptocurrency as a security, commodity or something else. Reiners was one of three witnesses who testified at the hearing, which was titled "Crypto Crash: Why Financial System Safeguards are Needed for Digital Assets."
By Interior Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Amenities. 2 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Parking - Auto. Imaginatively named sandstone features surround this parking lot. A wayside describes fallen arches. Hike the Park Avenue Trail from here to avoid its steep stairs. * Roundtrip Distance: 1.8 mi (3.2 km). *...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: USA Today. Like many Americans, residents of my home state of Wyoming could not understand how a Chinese spy balloon could lazily and brazenly pass over their heads. They are rightfully angry that an adversary’s spying platform was able to violate and then linger over U.S. airspace for an entire week.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Tramond G. Wallace, Jr., 28, of Syracuse, New York, pled guilty today to possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug-trafficking crime.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Special Representative for City and State Diplomacy Ambassador Nina Hachigian will participate in the Munich Security Conference, February 17-19, in Munich, Germany. This annual conference on international security will bring together Heads of State, government officials, international organization representatives, mayors, local government leaders, and security experts to discuss key global security policy challenges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today, Abel Nazario-Quiñones, former Puerto Rico senator and former mayor of the municipality of Yauco, Puerto Rico, was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge Francisco A. Besosa to serve 18 months in prison, announced United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow. The FBI conducted the investigation with the collaboration of the Puerto Rico Comptroller’s Office, and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Inspector General (OIG).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) delivered the following opening remarks during today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing titled “President Biden's Border Crisis Is a Public Health Crisis."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On Feb. 10, 2023, Robert Z. Whipple, III, 50, currently of Crossville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 70 months in prison by the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: A co-owner of multiple businesses was sentenced today to 12 months and a day in prison and two years of supervised release for failing to pay over $1 million in payroll taxes for his companies. Omar Mostafa, 57, of New Jersey, pleaded guilty on Aug. 8, 2022, before U.S. District Judge Georgette Castner to an information charging him with willful failure to collect or pay taxes.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
“REPORTS OF COMMITTEES“ was published in the Senate section on pages S16118-S16119 on Dec. 9, 2003
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHANEL GALLE, of New Orleans, LA, age 44, was indicted on Feb. 10, 2023 by a federal grand jury for two counts of making false statements related to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act).
By EPA Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s joint Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and Health Subcommittee field hearing: “President Biden's Border Crisis Is A Public Health Crisis."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan is demanding answers from FBI Director Christopher Wray as part of the panel’s investigation into the bureau’s alleged misuse of domestic violent extremism resources for "political purposes," after a leaked internal memo revealed the FBI had efforts underway to identify and treat some Catholics as violent extremists.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Feb. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: February marks Black History Month, a time set aside to recognize and honor the achievements and legacy of Black Americans across U.S. history and society.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today gave the following opening remarks at a full committee hearing on countering illicit fentanyl trafficking. The witnesses included The Honorable Todd Robinson, assistant secretary of State for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Ronnie L. White on Wednesday sentenced a man from St. Louis, Missouri who participated in a 2017 murder on behalf of a drug gang to 18 years in prison.
By State Newswire | Feb 16, 2023
News Release: Forbes, in partnership with Statista, has named the U.S. Department of State as one of America’s Best Employers 2023.
