News from January 2013
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Microloans up to $35,000 aim to assist small farmers, veterans, and disadvantaged producers MEMPHIS, Jan. 15, 2013—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a new microloan program from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) designed to help small and family operations, beginning and socially ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: More than $320 million to be distributed under reauthorized program WASHINGTON Jan. 15, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that over $323 million will be paid to 41 states and Puerto Rico in two distributions to support local schools and roads as part of the Congressional one-year reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal grand jury in Nevada today returned an indictment against 11 individuals for their alleged roles in a scheme to fraudulently take control of homeowners’ associations in the Las Vegas area. The indictment was announced by Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty today for coercing and enticing a minor and possessing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania David J. Hickton and Special ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Masood Chotani, a CPA and tax return preparer from Los Angeles County, Calif., pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud the United States, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Today, Matthew E. Davidson, a former corrections officer of the Alabama Department of Corrections, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Montgomery, Ala., to two counts of violating the civil rights of a former inmate at Ventress Correctional Facility in Clayton, Ala., and to one count of conspiring with other corrections officers to obstruct justice by covering up the incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Utah man was convicted late yesterday by a federal jury in Salt Lake City of possessing, receiving and distributing child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David B. Barlow of the District of Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Peruvian national and a Bahamian national pleaded guilty to smuggling undocumented migrants to the United States for private financial gain, Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: Community State Bank of St. Charles, Mich., will open a loan production office in an African-American neighborhood in Saginaw, Mich., invest $165,000 in majority African-American areas in and around Saginaw and take other steps as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of race, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: A federal court has permanently barred Pete Escalante Gutierrez and Jeanette Gutierrez from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, to which the Gutierrezes consented without admitting the allegations against them, was signed yesterday ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owner and president of Evans Real Estate Group LLC was sentenced today to 168 months in prison for defrauding investors in real estate funds that invested in the acquisition, renovation and continued operation of existing apartment complexes in Texas, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: On Jan. 14, 2013, the Federal Reserve conducted an auction of $3 billion in 28-day term deposits through its Term Deposit Facility. Following are the results of the auction: TDF Auction ID: A28 Competitive Amount Offered: $3,000,000,000 Competitive Amount Tendered: $5,680,000,000 Competitive Amount ...
By Fed Newswire | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced that it agreed with the Treasury Department that the credit protection Treasury has provided for the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF) is no longer necessary because the accumulated fees collected through TALF exceed the amount of TALF loans outstanding. The TALF remains a joint Treasury-Federal Reserve program, and the Treasury and Federal Reserve will continue to consult on the administration of the program.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has signed an accord with BNSF Railway Co., headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, announcing BNSF's voluntary revision of several personnel policies that OSHA alleged violated the whistleblower provisions of the Federal ...
By Commerce News Now | Jan 15, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 15, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 15, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 15, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 15, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 15, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Jan. 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
