News from March 2011
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has asked a federal court to stop an Atlanta-area financial planner from assisting persons in preparing false tax returns claiming fraudulent tax refunds based on fabricated income tax withholdings, the Justice Department announced today. The suit, filed in U.S. District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - A federal grand jury yesterday returned a 49-count superseding indictment against Jared Lee Loughner of Tucson for the murder of a federal judge and a Congressional staff member, as well as for causing the deaths of four other participants and injuries to many more during his alleged attempt to assassinate U.S. Representative Gabrielle D. Giffords at her Congress on Your Corner event held on Jan. 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – An owner and a physician associated with a Detroit-area infusion therapy clinic were sentenced to 120 months and 97 months in prison, respectively, for their leading roles in a $2.3 million Medicare fraud scheme, the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS) announced. In a separate case, a money launderer was sentenced to one year in prison in connection with a Medicare fraud scheme at a separate Detroit-area clinic.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: SEATTLE – Arthur Joel Eisenberg of Seattle was sentenced today to three years probation by U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Eisenberg pleaded guilty in December 2010 to willfully filing a false individual income tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Seven MS-13 members and leaders of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, have been sentenced to prison this week, after being convicted or pleading guilty to criminal charges that include racketeering, murder, attempted murder, assault, cocaine trafficking and numerous related federal firearms ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The former campaign treasurer for Representative Frank LoBiondo of New Jersey pleaded guilty today to embezzling more than $450,000 from the congressman’s election and re-election campaign accounts, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman for the District of New Jersey and Special Agent in Charge Michael B. Ward of the FBI’s Newark, N.J. Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal court in Detroit has ordered Ypsilanti, Mich., property owner and Washtenaw County Commissioner Ronnie Peterson, and his former manager Glen E. Johnson to pay a total of $82,500 in civil penalties in a sexual harassment case, the Justice Department announced today. The civil penalty is in addition to the $115,000 jury verdict obtained by the department on behalf of six victims of the sexual harassment in August 2010.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Remarks at APEC Conference on Green Buildings and Green Growth Thank you. On behalf of the Obama administration, it is my privilege to welcome you this morning.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Remarks to Asia-Pacific Economic Auto Dialogue Cooperation Meeting Hello, everybody. Thanks, James, for those kind words.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: Commerce Secretary Gary Locke Remarks at Edison Electric Institute "Powering the People" Conference Good afternoon. Thanks Jim for those words, and for being such a powerful voice for transforming how we power America.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 4, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the February 2011 Employment Situation report released today: "Our nation's labor market improved notably in the month of February. Nonfarm payroll employment increased by 192,000, and the unemployment rate decreased to ...
By Commerce News Now | Mar 4, 2011
The US Commerce Department published a nine page notice on March 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Mar 4, 2011
The US Energy Department published an eight page proposed rule on March 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 4, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a four page notice on March 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 4, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on March 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 4, 2011
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on March 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 4, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on March 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 4, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on March 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 4, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a six page notice on March 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Mar 4, 2011
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on March 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
