News from February 2023
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor today announced that its Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued citations at three more Amazon warehouses - in Aurora, Colorado; Nampa, Idaho; and Castleton, New York - for failing to keep workers safe and delivered hazard alert letters for exposing workers to ergonomic hazards.
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
DRL FY2022: Ensuring Freedom of Expression for Vulnerable and Marginalized Populations Responding to Anti-Rights Efforts and Targeted Attacks grant opened on Feb. 2.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
The US Environmental Protection Agency published a four page proposed rule on Feb. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $203,332 in back wages after an investigation found a Denver landscaping company owned by a father and son - Fermin and Roberto Daniel Guardado - denied overtime wages to 14 workers, and failed to keep complete records as the law requires.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that MARIANNA LEVIN was sentenced to 54 months in prison for her leadership role in a broad fraud scheme that defrauded Medicaid for home health and personal care services that were not actually rendered, resulting in the loss of more than $100 million. United States District Judge John P. Cronan imposed the sentence. LEVIN pled guilty to wire fraud on June 1, 2022.
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Congresswoman Young Kim (R-CA) issued the following statement ahead of Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s upcoming trip to China.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - A Burlington man was sentenced yesterday to 10 years in federal prison for drug trafficking.
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: Defendant Shouted at Officers and Used Flagpole to Assault Police Sergeant.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: A Beavercreek, Ohio, man, who was arrested by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force at John Glenn International Airport in 2018 while trying to travel to Afghanistan to join the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) or ISIS-Khorasan (ISIS-K), was sentenced today in federal court.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Following the issuance by the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Inspector General of a report finding that the DOJ has not prioritized the investigation of mortgage fraud and has reported unreliable and inflated statistics regarding the scope of its prosecutorial efforts, Rep. Elijah E.
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: I am taking action today to impose additional visa restrictions on certain current or former Taliban members, members of non-state security groups, and other individuals believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, repressing women and girls in Afghanistan through restrictive policies and violence, ...
By State Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
Release: Today, the Department of State announced the winners of the annual Global Human Rights Defender Awards. Protecting and supporting human rights defenders remains a key U.S. foreign policy priority as they are integral to democracy, access to justice, a vibrant civil society, economic prosperity, and environmental sustainability.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the village of Hinsdale, Illinois, has agreed to pay $800,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the village violated the Fair Housing Act when it refused to allow the operation of a sober living home for persons in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction in a residential neighborhood.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Jan. 31, 2023, Deputy Secretary for Homeland Security John K. Tien and Krista Mikkonen, Minister of Interior of Finland, and their respective delegations met in Washington, D.C. The principals reaffirmed the strong partnership between the Department of Homeland Security and the Ministry ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at today’s Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing titled “Challenges and Opportunities to Investigating the Origins of Pandemics and Other Biological Events. "
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Frederick Trevitt, 60, of Newark, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with receipt and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of five years in prison, and a maximum of 20 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: Defendant Accused of Assaulting Officers. WASHINGTON - A Vermont man has been arrested on felony charges, including assaulting several law enforcement officers during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
The US Energy Department published a three page notice on Feb. 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 2, 2023
News Release: POCATELLO - In the past week, two East Idaho men were sentenced, and one man was convicted at trial, in cases involving the sexual exploitation of children, U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today.
