News from December 2013
By USDA Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Program blends homegrown biofuels with conventional fuels, propelling ships, jets and jobs WASHINGTON, Dec. 11, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus today announced the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Navy's joint "Farm-to-Fleet" venture will now make ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Bilfinger SE, an international engineering and services company based in Mannheim, Germany, has agreed to pay a $32 million penalty to resolve charges that it violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) by bribing government officials of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to obtain and retain contracts related to the Eastern Gas Gathering System (EGGS) project, which was valued at approximately $387 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice today hosted a meeting to launch a joint task force between the United Kingdom and the United States to counter online child exploitation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: A federal district judge in Charleston, S.C., has permanently barred Jessica Geddis, of Summerville, S.C., from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. Geddis consented to the entry of the injunction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: A federal court in Atlanta permanently barred Matthew Adegbite and his companies, MAS & Associates CPA LLC and Mathew A. Adegbite CPA PC, from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The permanent injunction order was signed today by Judge Clarence Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Dr. Michael Austin, 57, of Atlanta, Ga., was sentenced today to serve one year and one day in federal prison for willfully failing to file individual income tax returns for tax years 2008 and 2009, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: An Alabama man pleaded guilty yesterday in a federal court in Gulfport, Miss., to knowingly shooting a dolphin, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: John Charles McCluskey, 48, will receive a life prison sentence for a host of crimes arising out of the carjacking and murder of a couple from Tecumseh, Okla., after a federal jury today announced that it could not reach a unanimous decision on whether to impose the death penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Earl Gross, 74, of Las Vegas, the former President and Chief Executive Officer of U.S. Mortgage, a loan servicing company, was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison for his role in an $8 million scheme to defraud Wells Fargo Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today that John T. Hoang, of Woodbridge, Va., was sentenced in federal district court in Washington, D.C., for willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns for the 2004 tax year. U.S. District Judge Richard ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday issued a consent order to cease and desist and a civil money penalty assessment of $50 million against the Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (RBS Group) and the Royal Bank of Scotland plc (RBS plc), both of Edinburgh, Scotland.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced the appointment of Michelle K. Lee as the next Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Lee currently serves as the Director of the USPTO’s Silicon Valley satellite office and will begin her new role at USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, VA, on Jan. 13, 2014.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced the appointment of Michelle K. Lee as the next Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Lee currently serves as the Director of the USPTO’s Silicon Valley satellite office and will begin her new role at USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, VA, on Jan. 13, 2014.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Dec 11, 2013
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Dec 11, 2013
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
