News from April 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WHITE PLAINS, NY. - JOHN P. GILBRIDE, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement ("DEA") and PREET BHARARA, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging 16 members of a drug trafficking ring operating in Yonkers and Bronx, New York, with federal narcotics charges.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 BUDAPEST, Hungary – Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for the biannual U.S.-European Union (EU) Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court in Los Angeles has permanently barred William Alexander of Pasadena, Calif., and his two companies, Retirement Plan Services Inc. and Lyons Pensions Inc., from selling or administering pension plans or employee welfare-benefit plans, the Justice Department announced today. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: DALLAS – A federal court in Dallas has barred Arthur Piner Grider III from operating businesses under any name, the Justice Department announced today. The final judgment and permanent injunction order, to which Grider agreed, finds him liable for more than $100 million in unpaid federal employment taxes, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – An attorney who formerly worked for a major pharmaceutical company was re-indicted on charges of obstruction and making false statements, the Justice Department announced today. The new indictment identifies GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as Lauren Stevens’ employer at the time of the alleged obstruction and false statements. GSK has not been charged with a crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Janet Jaensch, a federal employee, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., to one count of failure to file a 2008 federal income tax return, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO – W. Scott Harkonen, M.D., the former chief executive office (CEO) of InterMune Inc., was sentenced Wednesday before U.S. District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel for wire fraud relating to the dissemination of false and misleading statements about the results of a clinical trial of InterMune’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit in federal court in San Juan, Puerto Rico, charging the Puerto Rico Department of Justice (PRDOJ) with employment discrimination for failing to provide a reasonable accommodation to an employee with a disability, as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON—Larry Dees Sr., 66, and Larry Dees Jr., 37, both of Maringuoin, La., each pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Baton Rouge, La., to two violations of the Lacey Act for leading sport hunters to unauthorized areas to hunt American alligators in violation of the federal Endangered Species Act and Louisiana law, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two former Washington, D.C., tax preparers have been indicted on tax charges, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Onuoha “Iggy” Nwokoro, a former D.C. tax return preparer, made his initial appearance in federal district court on tax charges. On April ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Karl B. Rodney, the chief executive officer of the Carib News Foundation and publisher of Carib News, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to making a false statement to the U.S. House of Representatives, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two Miami-area residents and owners of a mental health care corporation, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Miami for orchestrating a fraud scheme that resulted in the submission of more than $200 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON –Michael Jacques, 26, of Springfield, Mass., was found guilty by a federal jury of three crimes related to the burning of a predominantly African-American church in Springfield on the morning after Barack Obama was elected as the first African-American President of the United States, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Miami-area physician Rene De Los Rios was convicted of five felony counts today by a federal jury for his role in a $23 million dollar HIV injection and infusion Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below. Termination of enforcement actions are listed on the Federal Reserve's web site, http://www.federalreserve.gov/apps/enforcementactions/, as they occur.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Testimony Before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies Chairwoman Mikulski, Ranking Member Hutchison, and distinguished Members of the Subcommittee, I am pleased to join you to discuss the President’s Budget request for the Department of Commerce for Fiscal Year 2012.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: Visit will highlight win-win trade benefits, push for swift approval of Korea trade agreement On April 27-29, U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke will lead a congressional delegation to Korea to build support for the passage of the U.S.-Korea Trade Agreement (KORUS). The passage of KORUS is an important part of President Obama’s National Export Initiative and his vision for the United States to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build its global competition and win the future.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit rejected a challenge by the National Roofing Contractors Association to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's December 2010 directive on the use of fall protection in residential construction. The directive withdrew an earlier one that allowed certain residential construction employers to bypass some fall protection requirements.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATAIn the week ending April 9, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 412,000, an increase of 27,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 385,000. The 4-week moving average was 395,750, an increase of 5,500 from the previous week's revised average of 390,250.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 14, 2011
News Release: OAK PARK HEIGHTS, Minn. – The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Greeder Mondor Electric Co., a defunct Oak Park Heights electrical contractor, and the company’s owner, Scott Mondor, for allegedly failing to administer and terminate the Greeder Mondor Electric Co. 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
