News from May 2013
By USDA Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: Officials emphasize interagency partnership, public awareness as keys to protecting communities from wildfire BOISE, ID – May 13, 2013 – During a visit to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) in Boise, Idaho today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell outlined ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the Civil Rights Division will monitor the election on May 14, 2013, in Douglas County, Neb. The monitoring will ensure compliance with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and other federal voting rights statutes. 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 | May 13, 2013
News Release: At a hearing today in federal court in the Eastern District of North Carolina, Hysen Sherifi, 29, of Raleigh, N.C., was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge W. Earl Britt to life in prison. Sherifi’s co-defendants, Shkumbin Sherifi, 23, and Nevine Aly Elshiekh, 48, were also sentenced to 36 months and 42 months in prison, respectively, both followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: In the largest drug safety settlement to date with a generic drug manufacturer, Ranbaxy USA Inc. , a subsidiary of Indian generic pharmaceutical manufacturer Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, pleaded guilty today to felony charges relating to the manufacture and distribution of certain adulterated drugs ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: A federal court permanently barred Larry J. Heath, a Cartersville, Ga., area tax preparer who operated Heath’s Income Tax, Heath & Hames Income Tax and Heath’s Income Tax II, from preparing tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction order, to which Heath agreed ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: A Detroit-area home health care agency owner was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for causing the submission of over $1 million in false and fraudulent billing to Medicare as part of a $13.8 million health care fraud conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: Robert David Forsyth, of Las Vegas, was sentenced late Friday in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas to 27 months in prison for income tax evasion and failing to file income tax returns, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. He was also sentenced to 3 years of supervised release and ordered to pay $306,171. Forsyth was indicted in April 2012 and pleaded guilty to the indictment on Apr. 22, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: Aurelio Cano Flores, a Mexican national and high ranking member of the Gulf Cartel, was sentenced today to serve 35 years in prison for conspiring to import multi-ton quantities of cocaine and marijuana into the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today the filing of a lawsuit against Niagara County, N.Y., alleging that Niagara County discriminated against Carisa Boddecker, a corrections officer with the Niagara County Sheriff’s Department, when it forced her to take a leave of absence during her pregnancy. ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: C.R. Bard Inc. has agreed to pay the U nited States $48.26 million to resolve claims that it knowingly caused false claims to be submitted to the Medicare program for brachytherapy seeds used to treat prostate cancer in violation of the False Claims Act. Bard is a New Jersey based corporation that develops, manufacturers, and markets medical products used for a variety of conditions, including prostate cancer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: A Detroit-area adult day care center owner was sentenced today to serve 40 months in prison for billing for unnecessary psychotherapy services, or services that were not provided, as part of a health care fraud conspiracy which led to more than $19 million in fraudulent Medicare billings.
By DOJ Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: Michael George Fitzpatrick, 51, of Hope, Idaho, was sentenced to 42 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Fitzpatrick was also ordered to serve three years super vised released and to pay just under $1.4 million in restitution to the IRS for unpaid individual and corporate federal income taxes.
By Fed Newswire | May 13, 2013
News Release: Eighteen large U.S. bank holding companies are required to submit the results of their company-run, midyear stress tests to the Federal Reserve on July 5, the Federal Reserve said in instructions to those firms Monday.
By Commerce News Now | May 13, 2013
News Release: Blank will lead a delegation of 20 U.S. firms poised to partner with these three countries on significant infrastructure development projects U.S. Acting Secretary of Commerce Rebecca Blank today began the first leg of an infrastructure business development trade mission to Sao Paulo, Brazil; Bogotá, ...
By Labor Gazette | May 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs will award up to $5 million under a competitive grant solicitation for one or more cooperative agreements to address child labor and exploitative working conditions in Rwanda's tea sector. The project will have an area-based approach that targets children, families and workers who are susceptible to child labor.
By Labor Gazette | May 13, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of International Labor Affairs is seeking eligible applicants for a $10 million cooperative agreement on a project to address child labor, labor rights and working conditions in the Dominican Republic's agricultural sector, including in sugarcane and production supply chains.
By Commerce News Now | May 13, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on May 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | May 13, 2013
The US Interior Department published a three page notice on May 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | May 13, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on May 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | May 13, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on May 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
