News from May 2012
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: New Microloan Proposal Helps Small Farmers Avoid High-Interest Credit Card and Personal Loans RICHMOND, Va., May 23, 2012– Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has made substantial, year-over-year gains in expanding credit opportunities for farmers ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder issued the following statement today on the resignation of U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Patrick Fitzgerald: “Throughout his distinguished career as a prosecutor, United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has served the American people and the citizens of Illinois with the utmost integrity and a steadfast commitment to the cause of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: A Delaware company pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Eastern District of Louisiana to negligently discharging oil into the bayous of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole paid tribute to four individuals today during the National Missing Children’s Day ceremony at the Justice Department’s Great Hall. Deputy Attorney General Cole presented awards to a special agent, a detective, a 30-year veteran of the postal service and a prosecutor ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that BP North America Inc. has agreed to pay an $8 million penalty and invest more than $400 million to install state-of-the-art pollution controls and cut emissions from BP’s petroleum refinery in Whiting, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Veniamin Gonikman, 56, a naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Ukraine, was sentenced today in federal court for his role in an international conspiracy to compel Eastern European women to work in exotic dance clubs in the Detroit metropolitan area. U.S. District Court Judge Victoria A. Roberts sentenced Gonikman to 36 months in prison followed by 3 years of supervised release. He is the ninth and final member of the charged conspiracy to be sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Alan James Watson, 47, of Clinton Township, Mich., was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for fraudulently soliciting and accepting $40 million from more than 900 members of his investment club, Cash Flow Financial LLC (CFF). Watson subsequently lost nearly all of the investors’ money through non-disclosed, high-risk investments. Victims were located in Virginia and nationwide. Watson was also ordered to forfeit $36,615,344.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: Tyrone Devon Thompson, Aritha Currie, Julius Thompson, Tronda Thompson and Shonda Sneed were charged in an indictment by a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Georgia on a variety of counts stemming from a tax fraud scheme, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced ...
By Fed Newswire | May 23, 2012
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced the availability of a new video that explains how borrowers who believe they were financially harmed during the mortgage foreclosure process in 2009 and 2010 can apply for a free, independent foreclosure file review.
By Labor Gazette | May 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy today announced the launch of its first disability-related application challenge, which is designed to generate innovative tools that will improve employment opportunities and outcomes for people with disabilities.
By Labor Gazette | May 23, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced grants totaling $20,518,598 to 18 nonprofit organizations across the country to fund employment-related services for formerly incarcerated adults who are returning to high-poverty, high-crime communities. These grants represent the fifth round of funding under the department's Reintegration of Ex-Offenders-Adult program, through which more than $98 million has been awarded to date.
By State News Post | May 23, 2012
The US State Department published a one page notice on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 23, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 23, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 23, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 23, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 23, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2012
The US Interior Department published a five page notice on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2012
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2012
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on May 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
