News from January 2012
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2012
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - Women's Rights National Historical Park is pleased to announce that it will show the PBS documentary Benjamin Franklin this Friday and Saturday, January 13 and 14, at 12:00 noon.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) today announced that the Full Committee will hold a hearing on January 18 to examine the potential impact of Domain Name Service (DNS) and search engine blocking on American cyber-security, jobs and the Internet...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 8, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a ceremony today with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announcing the protection of one million acres surrounding the Grand Canyon from more uranium mining, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, delivered the following remarks...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2012
News Release: Yesterday, the Obama administration announced a common sense proposal to fix a bureaucratic snag in our immigration system that often results in the prolonged separation of hundreds of thousands of U.S. citizens from their children and spouses. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) released the following statement in response to the announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder today announced revisions to the Uniform Crime Report’s (UCR) definition of rape, which will lead to a more comprehensive statistical reporting of rape nationwide. The new definition is more inclusive, better reflects state criminal codes and focuses on the various forms ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: Department of Justice and other administration officials will hold a press conference call on revisions to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) definition of rape TODAY, FRIDAY, JAN. 6, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. EST.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Eddie Pressley, 41, a former U.S. Army contracting official, was sentenced in Birmingham, Ala., for his participation in a bribery and money laundering scheme related to bribes paid for contracts awarded in support of the Iraq war, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A founder of NinjaVideo.net, a website that provided millions of users with the ability to illegally download high-quality copies of copyright-protected movies and television programs, was sentenced today to 22 months in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – James Smiley, 27, Colton Partin, 21, and Kyle Montgomery, 21, all of Chattanooga, Tenn., pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga for launching fireworks at African-Americans who were congregated outside their apartment building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Loretta Fergerson pleaded guilty today before Magistrate Judge Charles S. Coody in Montgomery, Ala., to conspiring to defraud the United States government, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Fergerson and a co-defendant were charged by a grand jury in a 22-count indictment that was unsealed on Mar. 30, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Three Philippine nationals have been arrested on charges of violating the Arms Export Control Act, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney André Birotte Jr. of the Central District of California and Steven M. Martinez, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: Wayne A. Mounts, a resident of Mesa, Ariz., was sentenced yesterday to 63 months in prison for his role in conspiracies to commit money laundering and to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced the Justice Department and the IRS today. On July 25, 2011, a federal jury in Phoenix convicted Mounts and his co-defendant, Gino Carlucci, of both conspiracies after an eight-day trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: Judge Mark Fuller of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama sentenced Lutoyua N. Thompson and Melinda M. Lambert to prison today for their involvement in a fraudulent tax return preparation scheme, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Thompson was sentenced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner and president of a Miami-area transportation company was sentenced yesterday to 57 months in prison for her role in a Medicare fraud kickback scheme that funneled patients through a fraudulent mental health company, American Therapeutic Corporation (ATC), announced the Department of Justice, FBI and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – An Austin, Texas, man pleaded guilty today in the Western District of Texas for his role in operating a foreclosure-rescue scam in Southern California and elsewhere that charged distressed homeowners fees in exchange for fraudulently postponing foreclosure sales.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that Kirby Dollar and Timothy Watford, former deputies with the Russell County, Ala., Sheriff’s Office, were sentenced in federal court in Montgomery, Ala., for their participation in the beating of a handcuffed man who had been taken into official custody. U.S. District Court Judge Mark E. Fuller sentenced Dollar, 37, to 46 months in prison and Watford, 42, to 34 months in prison.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: On January 4, 2011, President Barack Obama signed into law the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010 (COMPETES). Section 604 of COMPETES mandates that the Secretary of Commerce complete a study that addresses the economic competitiveness and innovative capacity of the United States. Congress directed ...
By Commerce News Now | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: Commerce Secretary John Bryson Remarks Unveiling COMPETES Report, Center for American Progress Thank you, everyone–it’s great to be here. Thank you, Neera [Tanden], for those kind words.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: Department also launches interactive report at www.commerce.gov/competes to highlight study’s findings and work already underway The U.S Department of Commerce today delivered to Congress a comprehensive report on “The Competitiveness and Innovative Capacity of the United States.” The report serves as a call to arms, highlighting bipartisan priorities to sustain and promote American innovation and economic competitiveness.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the December 2011 Employment Situation report released today: "Our nation's strengthening labor market posted broad-based growth in the month of December. Nonfarm payroll employment added 200,000 jobs, exceeding expectations, and the unemployment rate fell to 8.5 percent, its lowest level in nearly three years.
