News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Twelve Southeast Texas residents have been indicted and arrested in connection with a “white’s only" racketeering enterprise that engaged in methamphetamine distribution and murder in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 11, 2013
News Release: Cunard Road Closures in Effect. Road repairs to the Cunard Access will cause periodic closures from mid-March to mid-May. Glen Jean, West Virginia, March 11, 2013- The National Park Service is working with Federal Highways to provide necessary repairs to Cunard Road. This access to the river for boaters...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin today announced that a Huntington man was sentenced to three years and one month in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine. Kendall O. Williams, 29, previously pleaded guilty in October 2012. On April 21, 2011, law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2013
News Release: A man who conspired to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine was sentenced March 8, 2013, to more than seventeen years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2013
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its second annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film Eleanor Roosevelt on Friday, March 15, and Saturday, March 16, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 10, 2013
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - In recognition of Women's History Month, Women's Rights National Historical Park will host Carolyn Evans, as Harriet Tubman, in her original production of "The Love in That Cabin." Performances will be offered on March 22 at 7:00 PM and March 23 at 10:30 AM in the park visitor center theater, 136 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, NY.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 9, 2013
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On March 8, 2013, Ronald Wayne Reed, II, age 27, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced in United States District Court in Council Bluffs on the charge of felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Chief United States District Court...
By State Newswire | Mar 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the recent national election in Kenya...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2013
News Release: The Nevada Department of Wildlife (NDOW), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the United States Forest Service (USFS) have completed a set of sage-grouse habitat maps which will be used as planning tools for the management of greater sage-grouse and its habitat in Nevada. These maps can be viewed...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) requesting a report on the implementation of safety improvements for the nation's 104 nuclear reactors. The letter comes two years after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department’s Consumer Protection Branch secured nearly $2 billion in criminal fines, forfeiture, restitution, and civil disgorgement in 2012, Stuart F. Delery, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, announced today at the Consumer Protection Working Group’s Second ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: Mark E. Thom Jr., 31, a Springdale Borough, Penn., Police Officer, pleaded guilty to a one count information charging him with violating the civil rights of an individual on Jan. 23, 2011 in Springdale, announced Thomas E. Perez, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division and David J. Hickton, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two Japanese air freight forwarding companies have agreed to plead guilty and to pay criminal fines totaling $18.9 million for their roles in a conspiracy to fix certain fees in connection with the provision of air freight forwarding services for air cargo shipments from Japan to the United ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Chattanooga, Tenn., based nursing home manager Grace Healthcare LLC and its affiliate Grace Ancillary Services LLC (collectively, Grace) have agreed to pay $2.7 million, plus interest, to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: Corning Incorporated has agreed to pay the U nited States $5.65 million to resolve claims that it knowingly presented false claims to the United States for laboratory research products sold to federal agencies through Corning’s Life Sciences division. Corning, a New York based corporation, creates and makes glass and ceramic components for consumer electronics, mobile emissions controls, telecommunications and life sciences.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced today that the deadline for submitting written comments on their recent Patent Assertion Entity Activities Workshop has been extended from Mar. 10, 2013 to April 5, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: A 29-count indictment was unsealed today in Montgomery, Ala., charging Bryant Thompson, an Alabama corrections officer, and Quincy Walton, a former Alabama corrections officer, with federal tax crimes, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Thompson and Walton are both ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: Hungarian nationals Beatrix Boka and Aleksandar Kunkin were sentenced today to serve 36 months and 46 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in moving approximately $550,000 in illicit proceeds derived from an international online marketplace fraud scheme, announced Acting Assistant Attorney ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Labor Seth D. Harris issued the following statement about the February 2013 Employment Situation report released today.
By Labor Gazette | Mar 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration today released Field Assistance Bulletin 2013-01 concerning new disclosure requirements mandated by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act.
