News published on Federal Newswire in January 2012

News from January 2012


Boxer Calls Transportation Support Letter “Historic”

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today called a letter signed by more than 1,000 organizations in support of legislation to rebuild the nation's transportation systems "historic in its breadth and width."


Committee Demands White House Turn Over Internal Memos on Health Care Negotiations

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leading members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee are formally requesting that the White House turn over internal memoranda previously kept shrouded from Congress and the public’s view after the information was disclosed to The New Yorker for a Jan. 30, 2012, article...


Committee Demands White House Turn Over Internal Memos on Health Care Negotiations

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leading members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee are formally requesting that the White House turn over internal memoranda previously kept shrouded from Congress and the public’s view after the information was disclosed to The New Yorker for a Jan. 30, 2012, article...


News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Bridgeport, Conn., returned an indictment charging four East Haven Police officers with conspiring to violate, and violating, the civil rights of members of the East Haven community. This morning, Sergeant John Miller and Officers David Cari, Dennis Spaulding and Jason Zullo were arrested without incident. The indictment was unsealed today.


News Release: A federal court of appeals has, for the second time, rejected an alleged abusive tax shelter engineered by a subsidiary of General Electric Capital Corporation, the Justice Department announced today. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, based in New York City, also unanimously held that the Internal Revenue Service properly imposed a monetary penalty against the General Electric subsidiary for substantially understating its income taxes for 1997 and 1998.


News Release: Marsha Elmore of Wetumpka, Ala., the owner of a tax preparation business called Community Tax, was sentenced today to 184 months in prison, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Elmore used her business to run a scheme to steal tax refunds by filing false tax returns ...


News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging Nacretia Lewis with perjury and lying to a federal agent, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned the sealed indictment on Jan. 19, 2012. It was unsealed following Lewis’s arrest.


News Release: WASHINGTON – A Miami-area nurse pleaded guilty today for his participation in a $25 million home health Medicare fraud scheme, the Department of Justice, the FBI and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today.


News Release: Douglas J. Kuester of Silver City, N.M., was arrested today on identity theft and tax fraud charges, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. A federal grand jury in Las Cruces, N.M., returned an indictment under seal on Jan. 18, 2012, charging Kuester with using stolen ...


News Release: Yumeitrius Manuel and Margaret Kirksey, both of Montgomery, Ala., pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to defraud the government and aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Kirksey pleaded guilty today. Manuel pleaded guilty on Jan. 11, ...


The US Agriculture Department published a four page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a one page proposed rule on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published an eight page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a four page notice on Jan. 24, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.