News published on Federal Newswire in January 2013

News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Taneshia Stephenson yesterday was sentenced to 18 months in prison for conspiring to file false claims, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI) Special Agent in Charge Jose M. Martinez announced.

Ten Charged In Superseding Indictment In Time Share Mortgage Fraud Scheme

News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A federal grand jury for the District of New Jersey, sitting in Camden, has returned a 44-count Superseding Indictment against six individuals from southern New Jersey and four others for their alleged roles in a $3 million mail and wire fraud conspiracy involving time share mortgages, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.

Erie County Man Pleads Guilty To Receiving Child Pornography

News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Girard, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.

Oversight Committee Makes Bipartisan Call for Appointment of State Department IG

By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2013

News Release: WASHINGTON - Four leading Members of the House Oversight and Government Reform committee today sent a joint letter to President Barack Obama asking him to nominate a candidate for the long vacant position of State Department Inspector General. Signatories on the letter included House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings, Subcommittee on National Security Chairman Jason Chaffetz and Ranking Member John F. Tierney.

Sarasota Man Sentenced To Five Years In Federal Prison for Sophisticated Mortgage Fraud Scheme

News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Arthur R. Seaborne (70, Sarasota) to 5 years in federal prison for conspiring to commit bank fraud. In addition, Seaborne was ordered to forfeit $4,269,886.55 in proceeds from the offense. The matter of restitution will be addressed at a later date. Seaborne pleaded guilty on November 6, 2012.

Foreign National Pleads Guilty To Cocaine Conspiracy

News Release: A citizen of Mexico, who was named, along with nine others in an indictment returned in August 2012, has pled guilty, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.

Essex County, N.J., Man Charged In Union County Carjacking

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, N.J., man appeared in Newark federal court today in connection with charges arising out of a carjacking that occurred in December 2012 in Union County, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Council Bluffs Man Sentenced On Gun Charge

News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Jan. 22, 2013, Charles Edward Duncan, age 25, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced in United States District Court in Council Bluffs on the charge of prohibited person in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Chief United States...

Informational: Federal Court Arraignments

News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Jan. 23, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, the following individuals were arraigned.

Federal Charges Allege Captors Held Adults with Disabilities in Subhuman Conditions to Carry out Social Security Fraud

News Release: Linda Weston, her daughter and three co-defendants are charged in a 193-count indictment, unsealed today, with racketeering, murder in aid of racketeering, hate crimes, sex trafficking, forced labor, theft, fraud and other crimes. The indictment alleges that Weston and her associates carried out a racketeering ...

Utah Man and Nevada Woman Charged with Tax Conspiracy

News Release: A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Gerrit Timmerman III, 70, of Midvale, Utah, and Carol Sing, 73, of Henderson, Nevada, with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States. The indictment was announced by Kathryn Keneally, Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney for the District of Utah David B. Barlow.

Pennsylvania Man Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion

News Release: Stephen Thomas of York, Penn., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for tax evasion, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentenced Thomas to 18 months in prison and ordered him to pay $154,362 in restitution to the IRS.

Former Miami Clinic Director Sentenced to 70 Months in Prison for Role in HIV Infusion Fraud Scheme

News Release: A former Miami HIV infusion clinic director was sentenced today to serve 70 months in prison for his role in a $26.2 million HIV infusion fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida, Acting Special ...

New Jersey Woman Sentenced to 42 Months in Prison for Trafficking the Identities of Puerto Rican U.S. Citizens

News Release: WASHINGTON – A former resident of New Jersey was sentenced today to serve 42 months in prison for her role in trafficking the identities of Puerto Rican U.S. citizens and corresponding identity documents, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; ...

Statement by Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris regarding Bureau of Labor Statistics report on union membership in 2012

By Labor Gazette | Jan 23, 2013

News Release: WASHINGTON – Deputy Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris has issued the following statement regarding the Bureau of Labor Statistics report released today on union membership in 2012: "Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that, in 2012, the unionization rate of employed wage and salary workers was 11.3 percent. Among private sector employees, the rate was 6.6 percent.

Notice published by Interior Department on Jan. 23

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Interior Department publishes notice on Jan. 23

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Notice published on Jan. 23 by Interior Department

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

What did Interior Department publish on Jan. 23?

The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

Notice published by Interior Department on Jan. 23