News from February 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Basehor, Kan., man was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to hire a man to kill his wife.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In a letter sent to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner today, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), and Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: Kula - A new National Park Service (NPS) report for 2011 shows that the 956,989 visitors to Haleakalā National Park spent $68,757,000 in communities surrounding the park. This spending supported 836 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: DON BROOKS, age 19, and ANTOINE BROOKS, age 21, both residents of New Orleans, Louisiana, were charged today in a 9-count superseding indictment. In addition to the charges brought in the original indictment, the charges the superseding indictment include an additional charge of another discharging of...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led three Subcommittee Ranking Members to follow up on requested information related to a "sue and settle" agreement made by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) with the Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians. In May 2012, Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), requested the information, but to date, there has been no response.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Feb. 28, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today released the following statement after receiving a partial response from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe to his February 7th request for an extended public comment period for Lesser Prairie Chicken designation under the Endangered Species Act and to approve state and local plans to protect the Lesser Prairie Chicken.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A former property manager admitted today to conspiring to defraud financial institutions and launder stolen funds as part of a $15 million mortgage fraud scam that used phony documents and “straw buyers" to make illegal profits on overbuilt condos, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux announced that INGRID J. SIMON, age 49, of Baton Rouge, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge James J. Brady to using interstate facilities in aid of racketeering (bribery), in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1952. SIMON faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The sentencing date has not been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Crow Creek, South Dakota woman convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Feb. 20, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange. Buffy Dion, age 30, was sentenced to 2 months of custody and 6 months of home confinement thereafter with 3 years of supervised release.
By State Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Eliot Engel, the Committee’s Ranking Member, will introduce bipartisan sanctions legislation aimed at preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, and further increasing economic pressure on Iranian leaders as the regime develops its nuclear program and commits gross human rights violations.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement celebrating the unveiling of Rosa Parks’ Statue in the Capitol and reminding Americans that the work of the Civil Rights Movement is not yet complete...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: BROOKINGS, S.D., Feb. 27, 2013—Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan visited South Dakota State University today to announce more than $75 million in grants for research, education and extension activities to ensure greater food security in the United States and around the world. The awards ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: The owners and operators of two Miami health care agencies were sentenced to nine years and more than four years in prison today, respectively, and ordered to pay millions in restitution for their participation in a $48 million home health Medicare fraud scheme that billed for unnecessary home health care and therapy services.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: The operator of a California-based tax consulting business has been convicted by a federal jury in Fresno, Calif. for impersonating an aide to a U.S. Congressman in order to deceive a client, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: A federal court in Baton Rouge, La., on Monday rejected two tax shelter transactions entered into by The Dow Chemical Company that purported to create approximately $1 billion in phony tax deductions. In addition to rejecting the tax benefits from the shelter transactions, Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson also imposed penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: An employee of a Texas securities firm and a broker-dealer who conspired with him and others to artificially pump up the stock prices of several publicly traded companies were sentenced to prison terms today for their roles in the $1 million scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office Valerie Parlave.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Matthew Bender, a paid preparer of tax returns residing in Detroit, was charged in a superseding indictment with preparing false tax returns and tax obstruction, the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Two separate indictments charging a total of nine current or former officers at Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) were unsealed today, in relation to two assaults of an inmate, and subsequent obstruction of justice, announced Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Dustin Norris, a former correctional officer at the Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Md., pleaded guilty to conspiring with other RCI officers to assault an inmate at the state prison on March 9, 2008.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 27, 2013
News Release: Company placed in OSHAs Severe Violator Enforcement Program MINNEAPOLIS – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Highway Technologies Inc. in Minneapolis for 10 safety – including six willful – violations after a worker died from injuries sustained while working with equipment that came into contact with overhead power lines on I-94 near Menomonie, Wis.
