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Miami woman indicted in Maryland for pandemic unemployment fraud scheme
BALTIMORE, MD – A Miami woman has been indicted on 16 federal charges for her alleged role in a pandemic-related unemployment insurance fraud scheme that targeted state agencies, including the Maryland Department…
Individual Indicted and Arrested for Laundering More Than $360,000 of Unemployment Benefits and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Funds
SAN JUAN, P.R. – On March 10, 2022, the Federal Grand Jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment charging Martín Scamaroni-Cintrón with money laundering violations related to fraudulently obtained…
New Jersey’s Labor Commissioner Impeachment for Pandemic Fiasco, Unemployment Woes, Office Closures
TRENTON, NJ – Weeks after Governor Phil Murphy met with his peers at the National Governor’s Association’s annual convention, signaling an end to the pandemic phase of COVID-19, New Jersey’s Department of…
Childhood Literacy Plummeted Following Pandemic Shutdowns, Studies Show
Childhood Literacy Plummeted Following Pandemic Shutdowns, Studies Show Laurel Duggan on March 9, 2022 Young children are continuing to miss key reading benchmarks at a higher rate than before the COVID-19 pandemic,…
Texas Woman Sentenced for Unemployment Fraud Related to COVID-19 Pandemic
BOSTON – A Texas woman was sentenced today for her involvement in a scheme to fraudulently claim COVID-19-related unemployment assistance. Donna Wasson, 37, of San Antonio, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District…
Former Seattle doctor sentenced to 4 years in prison for defrauding pandemic relief programs
Seattle – A former Seattle doctor was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 4 years in prison for fraudulently seeking over $3.5 million in Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) and…
Rita’s Italian Ice Brings Back “First Day of Spring” Free Ice in 2022 After Pandemic Pause
TOMS RIVER, NJ – After a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rita’s Italian Ice is bringing back their free Italian ice on the first day of spring promotion this year.…
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy Signs Order Lifting Pandemic Public Health Emergency
TRENTON, NJ – The COVID-19 pandemic health emergency in New Jersey is officially and legally over, but Governor Phil Murphy warned residents, “Don’t let your hair down.” Murphy, after two years of…
Governor Phil Murphy to lift New Jersey’s two-year pandemic healthcare state of emergency on Monday
TRENTON, NJ – New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy in his last regularly scheduled COVID-19 briefing said New Jersey is moving from a COVID-19 pandemic to an endemic and he will sign an…
District Man Pleads Guilty in Schemes to Defraud Small Business Pandemic Relief Programs and the Archdiocese of Washington
WASHINGTON – Kenneth Gaughan, 43, of Washington, D.C., pleaded guilty today to carrying out two separate financial schemes. In one, he fraudulently obtained more than $2.1…
U.S. December oil demand hits highest since before pandemic -EIA
-U.S. oil demand rose in December to its highest level since before the coronavirus pandemic began, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said on Monday, with product supplied nearing 21 million barrels…
Canada posts budget surplus in December 2021, first since pandemic onset
OTTAWA, Feb 25 – – Canada in December recorded its first monthly surplus since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, while its deficit in the first nine months of fiscal 2021/22 continued…
Oakland Woman Sentenced To Three Years In Million Dollar Pandemic Relief Fraud
OAKLAND – A federal court sentenced Christina Burden today to 36 months in prison following her guilty pleas to two counts of bank fraud and two counts of money laundering, announced U.S.…
Analysis-Oil’s journey from worthless in the pandemic to $100 a barrel
By David Gaffen – In July 2020, just a few months after the COVID-19 pandemic started to spiral out of control, Shell CEO Ben van Beurden declared world oil demand may have…
Phil Murphy, Democrats still ignoring calls for investigation into pandemic nursing home death toll
TRENTON, N.J. – Assemblyman Erik Peterson is calling for hearings into nursing and veterans’ homes deaths following the announcement that most mandates at the Statehouse will be lifted Friday. Peterson said Democrat leadership…
Healthcare worker shortage looms as Murphy vaccine mandate targets former pandemic “Frontline Heroes”
From the Desk of Senator Anthony Bucco TRENTON, NJ – Less than two weeks before Governor Phil Murphy’s deadline requiring health care workers to have their second COVID vaccine shot, Senator Anthony…
A Southfield Woman Has Been Charged with Unemployment Insurance Benefit Fraud Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
DETROIT – A Southfield, Michigan woman was charged in a criminal complaint for allegedly making false and fraudulent unemployment insurance (UI) claims filed in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, announced United States…
WHO calls for strengthened role as U.S. proposes new pandemic fund
By Kate Lamb and Stanley Widianto JAKARTA – Efforts to strengthen global health security will only succeed if the role of the World Health Organization (WHO) is enhanced, the agency’s head said…
New Jersey legislators launch bi-partisan investigation into Murphy pandemic nursing home deaths
From the desk of Senator Joe Pennachhio Senator Joe Pennacchio has joined Senator Nia H. Gill as a prime sponsor of her resolution that would establish a special committee of the Senate…
Customers sue Bank of America for not refunding overdraft fees during pandemic
By Elizabeth Dilts Marshall NEW YORK – Bank of America Corp is facing a lawsuit seeking class action status filed on Thursday by two customers who say the bank refused to honor…
If pandemic is safe enough for criminals to be set free, it’s safe enough to end emergency senator says to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy
From the desk of Senator Joe Pennachhio With the imminent early release of almost 300 more convicted criminals by Governor Murphy and his Department of Corrections, Senator Joe Pennacchio revived calls for…
Former Pitt Emergency Official Admits Stealing and Selling PPE Masks During the Covid Pandemic
PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has pleaded guilty to one count of been of Interstate Transportation of Stolen Property, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today. Christopher D. Casamento,…
Testa: Latest move proves Murphy’s pandemic response guided by political polling, not science
From the desk of Senator Mike Testa Senator Michael Testa said a new story by the New York Times confirmed that Governor Murphy’s decision to lift mask mandates was guided by political…
Fed denies release of correspondence on pandemic trades made by policymakers
By Howard Schneider – The U.S. Federal Reserve, responding to a Freedom of Information Act request by Reuters, said there are about 60 pages of correspondence between its ethics officials and policymakers regarding…
Pandemic border protests strand cattle and car parts, snarling Canada-U.S. trade
By Julie Gordon and Rod Nickel OTTAWA – Protests in Canada against vaccine mandates have disrupted two key U.S. border crossings, and are snarling hundreds of millions of dollars daily of trade,…
Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office Continues to Fight Fraud Related to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Baltimore, Maryland – Today Maryland United States Attorney Erek L. Barron announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland has entered into a memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Special…
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