News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on June 25, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch, the following individuals were arraigned.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Kingsway Medical Systems, Inc. was Located in Desoto and Richardson, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Shannan C. Lynch, 44, of East Saint Louis, IL, was sentenced on June 26, 2013, in federal district court, in East St. Louis, on one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: The American statistician W. Edwards Deming once said, “Quality is everyone's responsibility.".
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Canadian Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews, and Canada's Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney today released a progress report entitled ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “I applaud today’s Supreme Court decision in United States v. Windsor holding that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional. This discriminatory law denied thousands of legally married same-sex couples many important federal benefits, ...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 26, 2013 – The USDA today announced the 10 members of the 2013 class of the E. Kika De La Garza Fellowship Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder today issued the following statement regarding the Supreme Court ruling on the Defense of Marriage Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: General Electric Aviation Systems (GEAS) has agreed to pay $6.58 million to settle allegations that it submitted false claims in connection with multiple Department of Defense contracts, the Justice Department announced today. GEAS, headquartered in Ohio, manufactures and sells integrated systems and components for commercial, corporate, military and marine aircraft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: SunCoke Energy Inc. and two of its subsidiaries have agreed to pay $1.995 million to resolve alleged Clean Air Act violations of emission limits at the Gateway Energy and Coke plant in Granite City, Illinois, and the Haverhill Coke plant in Franklin Furnace, Ohio, announced the Justice Department and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Michael Mancil Brown was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Nashville, Tenn., for allegedly engaging in an extortion and wire fraud scheme involving former Presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Todd Hudson, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Secret Service, Nashville Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Two individuals were arrested on a federal warrant alleging that they operated a series of fraudulent businesses targeting Spanish-speaking consumers, the Justice Department and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced today. The criminal complaint, charging Daniel Carrasco, 54, of Miramar, Fla., ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City today returned a superseding indictment charging Dick Reid Jenkins, a resident of Heber City, Utah, with 18 counts of presenting false, fictitious and fraudulent claims to the United States and one count of passing a fictitious obligation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City today returned an indictment charging Paul Ben Zaccardi, a resident of Sandy, Utah, with five counts of presenting false, fictitious and fraudulent claims to the United States, and three counts of passing fictitious obligations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Kenny McLaughlin, 35, a corrections officer at the Stone County Regional Correctional Facility in Stone County, Miss., was sentenced today to serve one year in federal prison and ordered to pay restitution of $6,000 for ordering the beating of an inmate at the detention facility in violation of federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced that yesterday a federal jury convicted Michael Smith, 38, a former corrections officer of the Alabama Department of Corrections, of two civil rights violations and five obstruction of justice-related violations in connection with the beating death of former inmate Rocrast ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: “The U.S. is disappointed and disagrees with the determination by Hong Kong authorities not to honor the U.S. request for the arrest of the fugitive, Edward J. Snowden.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: Penny Pritzker was sworn in today as the nation’s 38th Commerce Secretary. As a key member of President Obama’s economic team, Secretary Pritzker will lead the U.S. Department of Commerce in carrying out the important work that gives entrepreneurs and businesses the tools they need to create jobs and ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 186 citations and nine orders during special impact inspections conducted at nine coal mines and five metal/nonmetal mines last month.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today awarded more than $26 million in grants to help improve long-term labor market prospects for youth involved in the juvenile justice system. The "Face Forward" grants were awarded to 28 community-based organizations to provide juvenile offenders with support services, training and skills development to help them obtain employment and overcome the stigma of a juvenile record.
