News from August 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and Kerry B. Harvey, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Kentucky, jointly announced today that James S. Faller II, of Russell Springs, KY., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Bowling Green...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced $67 million worth of Navigator grants to 105 different organizations intended to help sell and explain Obamacare to the American people.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Mingo County Commissioner Arrested for Extortion in Separate Case.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Christopher A. Croft s announced today that on Aug. 14, 2013, Corey James Hill, a 19-year-old enrolled Northern Arapaho man from Ethete, Wyoming, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge Nancy D. Freudenthal for Assaulting/Resisting a Federal Officer. He received 44...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging Bernard Corbin, 46, of Philadelphia, PA, with conspiracy to transport stolen property in interstate commerce and transportation of stolen property in interstate commerce, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges that in 2012 Corbin used a company named Simply Green to steal large quantities of used cooking oil.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of South Louisiana Home Health Care Inc. and the director of nursing for the Louisiana home health agency were sentenced today for their roles in a Medicare fraud scheme involving the payment of kickbacks and the falsification of documents.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. Office of Public Affairs. WASHINGTON - An Eastern District of Texas prosecution team was one of 154 members of the Department of Justice recognized by Attorney General Eric Holder and Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Director H. Marshall Jarrett with a 2013 Director’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: POCATELLO - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that seven defendants pleaded guilty to methamphetamine distribution charges this week in United States District Court in Pocatello. The defendants were charged in two separate indictments.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: Remarks of U.S. Rep. Nick J. Rahall
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Timber Lake, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Wire Fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in a letter questioned former Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lisa Jackson, on her private email accounts that were used to conduct official business during her tenure at the agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: MOOSE, WY -In celebration of the 97th anniversary of the National Park Service, all 401 national park units-including Grand Teton National Park-will waive entrance fees on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. The fee for a private, non-commercial vehicle to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks normally costs...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal government contractor in Huntsville pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges related to a scheme to defraud the government of nearly $14 million in contract payments over six years.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Ricky Eagle Elk, age 45, of Rosebud, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Aug. 14, 2013, and pled guilty to Sexual Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal drug task force today arrested 18 people linked to three drug trafficking organizations that smuggled narcotics from Mexico in PVC pipes typically hidden in the axles of commercial trucks that ended up at truck yards located in South Los Angeles and southern Los Angeles County.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced $67 million worth of Navigator grants to 105 different organizations intended to help sell and explain Obamacare to the American people.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced $67 million worth of Navigator grants to 105 different organizations intended to help sell and explain Obamacare to the American people.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior's "I Have A Dream" speech at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 28th at the New York Peace Monument in Point Park on Lookout Mountain. Park staff will...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is seeking applications for grants that will be awarded to organizations to help rural businesses create jobs and spur economic development. USDA is making $5.6 million available through the Rural Community Development Initiative (RCDI), a program that generates economic activity in rural areas.
