News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Defendants Are Accused Of Distributing A Variety Of Prescription Drugs.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) Passenger Screening Canine teams. The report is entitled "TSA Explosives Detection Canine Program: Actions Needed to Analyze Data and Ensure Canine Teams Are Effectively Utilized".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, THEODORE MICHAEL ZACHRITZ, of Nichols Hills, Oklahoma, pled guilty to willfully failing to pay over to the Internal Revenue Service federal taxes that he withheld from his employees’ wages, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper, Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced the following changes to the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee staff...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Charged With $1.2 Million Mail Fraud And Money Laundering.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, six current and former members of the Senate Finance Committee, led by Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), released a comprehensive report outlining recommendations from more than 160 stakeholders in the health care community on ways to improve...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Residents in 15 Additional States and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Join Pilot Program WASHINGTON, Jan. 31, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is adding 15 more states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to a pilot program that enables current USDA home loan borrowers ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today challenging Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (ABI) proposed acquisition of total ownership and control of Grupo Modelo. The department said that the $20.1 billion transaction would substantially lessen competition in the market for beer ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached an agreement with Houston Community College (HCC) resolving allegations that the college violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). HCC employs approximately 6,000 employees across 20 campuses and is one of the largest community colleges in the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Ricky Lee Greenwood, of Portland, Ore., was indicted late last night on nine counts of wire fraud, nine counts of filing false claims for tax refunds, and eight counts of aggravated identity theft, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Greenwood made his initial appearance in court Wednesday in Portland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that, as part of its Barrier-Free Health Care Initiative, it has reached a settlement with the Fayetteville Pain Center under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The settlement resolves allegations that the Fayetteville Pain Center violated the ADA by refusing to treat a woman because she has HIV.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: U.S. District Court Judge Lesley Wells entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Ben Venue Laboratories Inc., a Bedford, Ohio-based drug manufacturer, the Justice Department announced today. The permanent injunction was also entered against George P. Doyle, president and chief executive ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Two members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas gang (ABT) pleaded guilty to racketeering charges related to their membership in the ABT’s criminal enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: After a 14-day trial, Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 21, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Somalia and resident of Corvallis, Ore., was convicted today by a federal jury in the District of Oregon of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction (explosives) in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb at an annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Jesus Enrique Rejon Aguilar, aka “Mamito” and “Caballero,” a high ranking member of the “Los Zetas” drug cartel, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to import multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s ...
By Fed Newswire | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: Oregon Community Bank & Trust, Oregon, Wisconsin Written Agreement dated Aug. 27, 2010 Terminated Jan. 29, 2013 Security Financial Services Corporation and Security Financial Bank, both of Durand, Wisconsin Written Agreement dated Sept. 14, 2009 Terminated Jan. 28, 2013 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Workers' Compensation Programs today announced a $75,000 settlement with The Sandi Group/Corporate Bank Financial Services for failure to report in a timely manner on the injuries and deaths of 30 employees in Iraq between 2003 and 2005.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: Fatality rates at an all-time low, while annual number of deaths is 2nd lowest ARLINGTON, Va. – Preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration released today indicates that, in 2012, mining fatality rates reached an all-time low for the second straight year. Fatality rates are calculated based on the number of mining deaths per 200,000 hours worked.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Jan. 26, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 368,000, an increase of 38,000 from the previous week's unrevised figure of 330,000. The 4-week moving average was 352,000, an increase of 250 from the previous week's unrevised average of 351,750.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $529,837 National Emergency Grant to assist about 150 workers affected by the closure of Siltronic Corp. in Portland, Ore., which manufactures silicon wafers for computers, smartphones, navigation systems and similar devices.
