WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Marketing Service issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2023: The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced it has signed a cooperative agreement with Connecticut for more than $1.8 million to increase their purchase of nutritious, local foods for school meal programs. Through the Local Food for Schools Cooperative Agreement Program (LFS), the Connecticut State Depa  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 10 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Vanessa Roberts Avery, issued the following news release on Feb. 9, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Jean Pierre Njock, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Phillip Coyne, Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General, announced that DEN  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Feb. 10 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Vanessa Roberts Avery, issued the following news release on Feb. 8, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KYLE J. WINE, 42, of Lee's Summit, Missouri, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to 132 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fraud and money laundering offenses stemming f  more

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia, Feb. 11 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Contract Audit Agency issued the following audit guidance: DCAA Operations Investigative Support Division auditor Igor Yegoroff and Supervisory Auditor Myron Antoniw assisted in an investigation leading to a civil settlement agreement between Triumph Actuation Systems - Connecticut and the US government with Triumph agreeing to pay $478,586 to resolve allegations. Triumph Actuation Systems - Connecticut, a designer and  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 -- Fannie Mae issued the following news release: Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTCQB) priced Connecticut Avenue Securities(R) (CAS) Series 2023-R02, an approximately $709 million note offering that represents Fannie Mae's second CAS REMIC(R) transaction of the year. CAS is Fannie Mae's benchmark issuance program designed to share credit risk on its single-family conventional guaranty book of business. The reference pool for CAS Series 2023-R02 consists of approximately 64,000 single-fami  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (TNStalk) -- The Federal Communications Commission's Media Bureau issued the following letter (Docket No. 23-107): * * * To: Dennis P. Corbett, Esq., Michael Lazarus, Esq., Ashley Brydone-Jack, Esq., Telecommunications Law Professionals PLLC, 1025 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 1011, Washington, DC 20036, (sent by electronic mail to: dcorbett@tlp.law) In re: Gerald Parks, DWEKC(AM), Williamsburg, KY, Facility ID No. 72790, Application File No. BR-20120410ABU Petition for Recon  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on Feb. 7, 2023: A federal jury convicted two men today for engaging in a scheme to defraud Medicare Advantage and Medicaid managed care plans of over $3.8 million. According to court documents and evidence presented at trial, Ikechukwu Udeokoro, 47, of North Bergen, New Jersey, owned Meik Medical Equipment and Supply (Meik), a durable medical equipment supplier that was located in the Bronx, New York. Ayode  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on Feb. 9, 2023: * * * President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is Delivering in Connecticut As of February 2023 The Biden-Harris Administration has hit the ground running to implement the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and it is already delivering results for the people of Connecticut. To date, $2.5 billion in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law funding has been announced and is headed to Connecticut with over 5  more