News from December 2013
By DOL Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: Representative Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, today introduced the Protecting Health Care Providers from Increased Administrative Burdens Act (H.R. 3633). The legislation would prevent the Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that XANG NAKHOUNE, 38, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “The FTC at 100: Where Do We Go From Here?" Today’s hearing kicked off a series examining the work of the Federal Trade Commission as the agency approaches its 100th anniversary...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Texas man has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for cattle fraud in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin today made the following statement after the Congressional Budget Office estimated that failure to extend the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program would cost the economy 200,000 jobs. Earlier today, Ways and Means Committee...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
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 announced plans for the committee to examine and update the Communications Act. Upton and Walden made the announcement via Google Hangout, where...
By State Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement after a bipartisan meeting with Mr. Bill Gates, Co-Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Including Chairman Royce and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY), 22 Committee Members attended the meeting in the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2013
News Release: Dodson faces three counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - David M. Kwiatkowski, 34, a former employee of Exeter Hospital, was sentenced today to 39 years in prison for his conduct in causing a widespread Hepatitis C outbreak in numerous states, announced John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement for New England, United States Attorney John P. Kacavas and Barry R. Grissom, United States Attorney for the District of Kansas.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Work to reduce the threat of wildfires to the Town of Mesa through a partnership between the Plateau Valley Fire Protection District and the Bureau of Land Management began last week and will continue through this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Johnny V. Dunaway, 65, of Knoxville, Tenn., pleaded guilty on Dec. 2, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville, to filing a false tax return. Sentencing has been set for 11:00 a.m., Apr. 23, 2014, in U.S. District Court in Knoxville.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Mythili Raman, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Christopher B.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Abdul Razaq, an orthopedic surgeon in La Plata, Md, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States Department of Treasury by taking fraudulent tax deductions as part of a decades-long scheme to conceal the transfer of at least $3.5 million from the government of Pakistan to fund lobbying efforts in America related to Kashmir.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: Waycross, GA - Randy Strickland, 55, a former Pierce County, Georgia Deputy Sheriff, pled guilty last week before United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. for his role in trafficking methamphetamine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “On Dec. 3-6, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Rand Beers will travel to Germany, Belgium and Turkey, to meet with international counterparts to discuss homeland security-related priorities and collective efforts to ensure our common security interests.”
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: Caremark LLC, a pharmacy benefit management company (PBM), will pay the government and five states a total of $4.25 million to settle allegations that it knowingly failed to reimburse Medicaid for prescription drug costs paid on behalf of Medicaid beneficiaries, who also were eligible for drug benefits ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: Two health care clinic owners were sentenced today in connection with an $8 million health care fraud scheme involving the now-defunct home health care company Flores Home Health Care Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: Clarence Hicks, of Montgomery, Ala., was sentenced to serve 57 months in federal prison and three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $210,555.62 in restitution for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department's ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve on Monday announced that it has not objected to re-submitted capital plans from The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. During the 2013 Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR), the Federal Reserve did not object to the capital plans from both institutions, but required them to submit new plans addressing weaknesses identified in their capital planning processes.
By Fed Newswire | Dec 2, 2013
News Release: Harvard College won the 10th annual national College Fed Challenge on Monday, a competition that encourages students to learn about the U.S. economy, monetary policymaking, and the role of the Federal Reserve System. The team, from Cambridge, Mass., represented the Boston Federal Reserve District and included Justin Katiraei, Kevin Li, Andreas Schaab, Daniel Tartakovsky, Eugene Wang, Samuel Young, and faculty adviser Benjamin Friedman.
