News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Investigation Targeted Illegal Distribution of Prescription Pills.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two Stamford men involved in illegal gambling businesses were sentenced today by United States District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford. THOMAS UVA IV, also known as “Little T," 32, was sentenced to 21...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A felon who possessed loaded firearms and heroin at his Huntington residence pleaded guilty today to federal charges, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Obadiah Pacely, 45, of Huntington, sold heroin to a confidential informant working in cooperation with law enforcement on February...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Policy Change Allows Federal Grants and Loans to Reach Farmers and Rural Communities Faster WASHINGTON, June 3, 2013 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced its plan to update regulatory processes for notices regarding public property, loans, grants, benefits and contracts by rescinding an outdated statement of policy that required USDA agencies to needlessly delay the delivery of these benefits to rural communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: The United States has extradited Sulejman Mujagic, a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina and a resident of Utica, N.Y., to stand trial in Bosnia for charges relating to the torture and murder of one prisoner of war and the torture of another during the armed conflict in Bosnia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder today welcomed Karol V. Mason as the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Justice Programs (OJP). As head of OJP, she oversees an annual budget of more than $2 billion dedicated to supporting state, local and tribal criminal justice agencies; an array of juvenile justice programs; a wide range of research, evaluation and statistical efforts; and comprehensive services for crime victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it will monitor municipal elections on June 4, 2013, in the cities of Brookhaven, Greenwood, Isola, Meridian, Philadelphia and Ruleville, Miss., 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 a minority language group.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: U.S. District Judge Alexander Williams Jr. sentenced Anthony McIntosh, a former correctional officer at the Prince George’s County Detention Center, in Upper Marlboro, Md., to 24 months in prison for obstruction of justice. McIntosh had entered a guilty plea on Jan. 4, 2013, at which time he admitted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: A federal jury sitting in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania convicted Eugene Goldman, M.D., 55, of Philadelphia, of one count of conspiring to violate the anti-kickback statute and four counts of violating the anti-kickback statute in relation to his role in a kickback scheme arising from his employment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: Michael P. Jackson, 40, of Carmi, Ill., was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to serve 72 months in prison for selling the prescription drug known as Adderall, from 2009 to 2012, to a Florida woman who operated an illegal Internet-pharmacy business. Jackson also was sentenced to three years of supervised release.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris today issued the following statement on the death of Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey: "This morning, New Jersey and the nation lost a true statesman and a powerful progressive voice. Throughout nearly three decades in the United States Senate, ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a $500,000 National Emergency Grant incremental award to assist Rhode Island with continuing cleanup and recovery efforts in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration today announced that it has approved a process for JP Morgan Chase Bank NA and ADP Inc. to terminate and wind up approximately 180 defined contribution pension plans abandoned due to corporate crises or neglect. This action, conducted through EBSA's abandoned plan program, will give plan participants control over the fate of their retirement savings.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 3, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on June 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 3, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on June 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 3, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 3, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 3, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on June 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 3, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on June 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 3, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on June 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
