News from March 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - One year ago today, President Obama stood in front of a pile of steel pipes in Cushing, Oklahoma, and endorsed the southern leg of the Keystone XL pipeline, calling for action to cut red tape and make the project a priority. But despite taking credit for this fraction of the pipeline’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage man was sentenced in federal court in Anchorage for fraudulently obtaining over $300,000 from Alaska victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Crow Creek, South Dakota man convicted of Conspiracy and Distribution of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on March 19, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Mr. President, I rise today to oppose an amendment introduced by my colleagues, Senator Durbin and Senator Enzi. That amendment would let states force businesses in other states to collect sales taxes on their behalf.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On March 14, 2013, a Federal grand jury returned a fourteen count-indictment against four individuals for conspiracy to commit health care fraud, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The investigation was led by the Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced Antonio McKiver, age 47, of Baltimore, today to 235 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire, possession with the intent to distribute...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Studies by a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientist have provided a complete cost-benefit breakdown of using switchgrass pellets, which are potentially a cheaper source of energy, instead of fuel oil to heat homes and businesses in the Northeast.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Defendants facing two narcotics forfeiture allegations of ten and five million dollars in two separate indictments.
By State Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI), and U.S. Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) introduced the Free Syria Act (FSA) of 2013, the most comprehensive congressional bill on Syria, authorizing...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: National Nutrition Month Provides Opportunity to Focus National Conversation on Nutrition ATLANTA, March 21, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today outlined the need for a renewed commitment to improve childhood nutrition, which will lead to a healthier generation of Americans and a productive workforce to keep growing American business.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: The United States has asked a federal court in Montgomery, Ala., to bar Kenya Hendrix Adams from preparing tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. According to the government complaint, Adams has repeatedly prepared federal tax returns that understate her clients’ federal tax liabilities. The suit alleges that Adams did so by falsely claiming or inflating tax credits or fabricating deductions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Two shipping firms based in Germany and Cyprus today pleaded guilty to felony obstruction of justice charges and violating the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships related to the deliberate concealment of vessel pollution from four ships that visited U.S. ports in New Jersey, Delaware and Northern California, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Brazilian nationals Juliana Rose Tome-Froes and her husband, Fabio Rodrigues Froes, were sentenced today in Miami to 60 months and 46 months in prison, respectively, for smuggling undocumented migrants to the United States for profit, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a cooperative settlement agreement with the Arapahoe, Colo., County Sheriff’s Office under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). This agreement is a companion to one reached on March 8, 2013, with the city of Englewood, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: The Unified Government of Wyandotte Co. and Kansas City, Kan., has agreed to a settlement to address unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage and to reduce pollution levels in urban stormwater, the Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Peruvian national Jessie Katherine Gonzales Urquizo and Bahamian national Irene Mildred Janette Burrows were sentenced today to serve 60 months and 36 months in prison, respectively, for their roles in smuggling undocumented migrants to the United States for private financial gain, announced Acting Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico, has returned an indictment against Thomas Farmer, a former executive of Jacksonville, Fla.-based Crowley Liner Services, for participating in a conspiracy to fix rates and surcharges for freight transported by water between the continental United States and Puerto Rico, the Department of Justice announced today.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: Federal bank regulatory agencies today released updated supervisory guidance on leveraged lending, which has been increasing since 2009 after declining during the financial crisis.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement actions listed below: Bank of Bartlett, Bartlett, Tennessee Prompt Corrective Action Directive dated Jan. 30, 2012 Terminated March 18, 2013 Bank of Little Rock, Little Rock, Arkansas Written Agreement dated May 18, ...
By Labor Gazette | Mar 21, 2013
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky has granted a default judgment against D & C Mining Corp. of Harlan County, Ky., affirming the U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration's complaint. The mine operator owes $1.67 million in unpaid civil penalties for violations of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977, along with interest and administrative costs.
