News from January 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months imprisonment followed by three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2013
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Ridgway, Pa., and a resident of Johnsonburg, Pa., have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Brandon Lawrence Jones, 35, of San Diego, Calif., and Jesus Manuel Gallegos, 41, of El Paso, Texas, have entered guilty pleas to an indictment charging them with a federal kidnapping charge. Jones entered his guilty plea on Dec. 28, 2012, and Gallegos entered his guilty plea on Jan. 3, 2013. Both guilty pleas were entered without the benefit of plea agreements.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: A new study by Oliver Wyman, published by the American Academy of Actuaries, found the President’s health law will greatly increase the cost of insurance for those in the individual insurance market with younger Americans particularly hard hit. Below are highlights of the study...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York announces that a federal Grand Jury in Syracuse has returned a seven-count Indictment charging GLENN RICHARD UNGER (62, of Ogdensburg, NY) with obstructing and impeding the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS") by filing numerous...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor the municipal special election on Jan. 8, 2013, in Branchville, S.C., to ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Ala., returned a superseding indictment charging Deatrice Smith Williams and Quentin Collick for their roles in a stolen identity refund fraud conspiracy, Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney for the Middle ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: EMH Regional Medical Center (EMH) has agreed to pay the United States $3,863,857 and North Ohio Heart Center Inc. (NOHC) has agreed to pay the United States $541,870 to settle allegations that they submitted false claims to Medicare, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder announced today the appointment of U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta E. Lynch as chair of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee of U.S. Attorneys (AGAC). Attorney General Holder also appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia Sally Quillian Yates to serve as vice chair. Both appointments became effective Jan. 1, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner of several Detroit-area businesses that housed severely mentally-disabled Medicare recipients pleaded guilty today for his role in a $13.2 million fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with Centerplate Inc., resolving allegations that the company violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). Centerplate, based in Spartanburg, S.C., is one of the largest hospitality companies in the world. With over 10,000 employees nationwide, Centerplate provides food service to over 250 stadiums, convention centers and entertainment venues across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Jack Ray Carr, of Baton Rouge, La., was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison for one count of corruptly interfering with the due administration of the Internal Revenue laws, four counts of filing false income tax returns and one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false income ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Romanian national was sentenced today to serve 21 months in prison for his role in an international, multimillion-dollar scheme to remotely hack into and steal payment card data from hundreds of U.S. merchants’ computers, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: The United States Justice Department and U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today the filing of a complaint alleging that the Jerome County Sheriff’s Office willfully violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994 (USERRA) by failing to reemploy and terminating Idaho ...
By Fed Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON--Ten mortgage servicing companies subject to enforcement actions for deficient practices in mortgage loan servicing and foreclosure processing have reached an agreement in principle with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and the Federal Reserve Board to pay more than $8.5 billion in cash payments and other assistance to help borrowers.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: Company will also pay $9,450 in civil money penalties AKRON, Ohio Azteca Restaurante Mexicano Inc. and Salvador B. Alatorre, manager and part-owner of the Akron establishment, have agreed to pay $45,781 in back wages and liquidated damages to 18 employees following an investigation by the U.S. Department ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $408,403 National Emergency Grant increment for continued assistance to about 320 workers affected by the 2011 closure of Evergreen Solar Inc. in Devens and Marlborough, Mass., and layoffs of two of its staffing firms.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 7, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Jan. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 7, 2013
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Jan 7, 2013
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Jan. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
