News published on Federal Newswire in August 2012

News from August 2012


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the following statement on the Federal Communications Commission’s approval of a “special access" order by a 3-2 vote to suspend existing FCC rules...


News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today released the following statement on the Federal Communications Commission’s approval of a “special access" order by a 3-2 vote to suspend existing FCC rules...


News Release: Valley Village, CA - U.S. Rep. Howard L. Berman, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement after the Government of Tuvalu announced that its ship registry office de-registered some two dozen Iranian oil tankers owned by the National Iranian Tanker Corporation (NITC).


Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Economic Development Funding to Support Business Growth, Create Jobs in Rural Areas

News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of 16 recipients for grants to help spur economic development and create or save jobs in 17 states.


News Release: Sonya Darrington pleaded guilty in the Middle District of Alabama to conspiracy to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.


News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner of a Miami-area assisted living facility was sentenced today to serve 30 months in prison for his role in a kickback scheme that funneled patients to a fraudulent mental health provider, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services announced today.


News Release: The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Tennessee today approved a comprehensive consent order in McFerren v. County Board of Education of Fayette County, which the Department of Justice negotiated with the Board of Education of Fayette County, Tennessee and the NAACP Legal Defense & Education ...


News Release: Iraqi citizen Mohanad Shareef Hammadi pleaded guilty to federal terrorism charges today in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, announced Lisa Monaco, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; David J. Hale, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky; and Perrye K. Turner, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Louisville Division.


News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner of multiple durable medical equipment (DME) companies that operated in Louisiana was sentenced today to serve 180 months in prison for his role in multiple Medicare fraud schemes involving fraudulent claims and illegal kickback payments for unnecessary DME, announced the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the FBI and the Louisiana State Attorney General’s Office.


News Release: WASHINGTON – Seizure orders have been executed against three website domain names engaged in the illegal distribution of copies of copyrighted Android cell phone apps, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Sally Quillian Yates of the ...


News Release: Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank, Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski tour small business incubator set to receive funds Acting U.S. Commerce Secretary Rebecca Blank announced a $500,000 Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant to the Allentown Economic Development Corporation and the Allentown ...


News Release: Growth is 11 percent higher than in 2011 Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration (ITA) announced that international visitors have spent an estimated $82.2 billion on U.S. travel and tourism-related goods and services year to date, an increase of 11 percent when compared ...


US Department of Labor awards $11.53 million in grants to provide job training services to 5,500 veterans nationwide

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today awarded grants totaling $11.53 million through the Veterans' Workforce Investment Program to provide an estimated 5,500 veterans with job training and skills development services.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a three page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Aug. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.