News from July 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) sent a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew seeking additional information about the decision to delay the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: A grand jury in the Southern District of Florida issued an indictment for two individuals on charges of conspiracy, fraud and extortion alleging they operated a series of fraudulent businesses targeting Spanish-speaking consumers, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS)...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that Ernest Prado, 48, Pollock prisoner, and Gumaro Lopez, 33, Pollock prisoner, pleaded guilty Tuesday before U.S. District Judge Dee D. Drell to assaulting a fellow inmate.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 2218, the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act, with strong bipartisan support by a vote of 265 to 155. Sponsored by Rep. David McKinley (R-WV), the legislation will improve environmental protections and protect jobs by creating a state-based program that sets enforceable federal standards for coal ash.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a man, who was most recently living in California, was indicted by a federal grand jury for failing to update his sex offender registration as required.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Charlestown man was sentenced today for his scheme to help gamblers at Suffolk Downs evade the payment of taxes on over $2 million in winnings.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today advanced two legislative proposals to improve transparency, efficiency, and accountability at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The FCC Process Reform Act, sponsored by Chairman Walden...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Utah. Thursday, July 25, 2013. Sentence Includes $1,331,075.36 in Restitution to Victims. SALT LAKE CITY - Patrick Merrill Brody, age 47, of Salt Lake City, who pleaded guilty in May to wire fraud and money laundering in connection with a real estate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today after the HELP Committee approved two nominees-Kent Hirozawa and Nancy Schiffer-to serve on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The HELP Committee has now approved a full slate of five nominees to the NLRB, having voted to advance three additional nominees this past May.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Ronald Verrocchio, Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS), and Paula Reid, Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that eight defendants were indicted last week on charges of mail fraud, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to make false statements regarding the distribution of cigarettes and aggravated structuring currency transactions.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 MEXICO CITY—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Thomas Winkowski, and Assistant Secretary for International Affairs Alan Bersin today traveled to Mexico City where they met ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Small Investment Leads to Increased Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among SNAP Recipients Audio WASHINGTON, July 24, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the results of USDA's Healthy Incentives Pilot (HIP) and discussed additional steps USDA and its partners are taking to encourage recipients to purchase healthy foods using SNAP benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: A former San Francisco investment banker and his college friend were sentenced yesterday to 16 months in prison for their roles in an insider trading scheme involving two impending corporate mergers, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag of the Northern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that a federal district judge in Charleston, S.C. permanently barred Stacy Middleton from preparing federal income tax returns for others.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: A Philadelphia resident pleaded guilty today for his role as a money launderer in a $13 million health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: The United States entered into a settlement agreement with the Arcadia Unified School District in Arcadia, Calif., to resolve an investigation into allegations of discrimination against a transgender student based on the student’s sex. Under the agreement, approved by the district’s school board unanimously ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: The daughter of a church pastor and owner of a California-based durable medical equipment (DME) supply company was found guilty by a jury of Medicare fraud charges for her role in a Medicare fraud scheme that resulted in over $11 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Three former financial services executives were sentenced today in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for their participation in frauds related to bidding for contracts for the investment of municipal bond proceeds and other municipal finance contracts, the Department of Justice announced.
