News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged nine people from Portsmouth, Ohio and eight people from the Dayton, Ohio area with engaging in a two-year conspiracy to deliver heroin from Dayton to Portsmouth where they distributed it out of seven Portsmouth...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: For the first time, scientists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have demonstrated a new type of lens that bends and focuses ultraviolet (UV) light in such an unusual way that it can create ghostly, 3D images of objects that float in free space. The easy-to-build lens...
By State Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, one day after the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed the Nuclear Iran Prevention Act, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the Committee, issued the following statement on the latest International Atomic Energy Agency report, which confirms that Iran continues...
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today hosted the first U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Portrait Unveiling Ceremony in honor of Governor Tom Ridge—our nation’s first Secretary of Homeland Security.
By Homeland Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “On May 24, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to Boston to meet with Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety and Security Andrea Cabral, Massachusetts State Police Superintendent Colonel Timothy Alben, Boston Mayor ...
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that grant applications are being accepted from qualified non-profit organizations and educational facilities to help rural cooperatives develop new markets for their products and services. The United States Department of Agriculture ...
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that applications are being accepted from lenders for loan guarantees to finance rural rental housing. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) remains focused on carrying out its mission, despite a time of significant budget uncertainty. Today's announcement is one part of the Department's efforts to strengthen the rural economy.
By USDA Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 23, 2013 – In the wake of recent tragedy and destruction in Kansas and Oklahoma, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing recommendations to help affected residents minimize the potential for foodborne illnesses as a result of long term power outages and compromised food storage.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Julian Zapata Espinoza, also known as “Piolin,” 32, pleaded guilty today to the murder of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Special Agent Jaime Zapata and the attempted murder of ICE Special Agent Victor Avila in Mexico. The court also unsealed today the guilty pleas of three other defendants ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: A federal complaint has been unsealed charging Dante Phearse, 32, of Houston, with calling in bomb threats to two synagogues located in Houston, announced Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Roy L. Austin Jr. and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: The owner of an investment company pleaded guilty today for his role in an investment scheme involving false promises, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Neil H. MacBride, and Assistant Director in Charge Valerie Parlave of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: The owner and sole operator of an environmental laboratory was found guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi of all counts of a federal indictment charging falsification of records and obstructing a federal criminal investigation, announced Assistant Attorney General Ignacia S. Moreno of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: A former Chicago police officer and two members of the Latin Kings street gang were sentenced to prison today in Hammond, Ind., federal court for racketeering conspiracy and related crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Rodriquez Thomas, of Montgomery County, Ala., pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama to conspiring to cash fraudulently obtained federal tax refund checks, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. According to court documents, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Tracey Montgomery, of Montgomery County, Ala., pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama to her role in a large scale stolen identity refund fraud, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: An Independence, Mo., woman was indicted by a federal grand jury today for violating the civil rights of an African-American family by setting fire to their residence, announced Roy L. Austin Jr., Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and Tammy Dickinson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: Frank Carter, 43, a former officer with the Laredo, Texas, Police Department (LPD), has been sentenced to prison following his conviction for violating the civil rights of an arrestee, announced Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Thomas E. Perez and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Carter pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 7, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached an agreement with ISS Facility Services Company resolving allegations that the company violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). ISS, with headquarters in San Antonio, Texas, employs approximately 15,000 employees in the United States.
By Fed Newswire | May 23, 2013
News Release: The exemption designed to protect small debit card issuers from interchange fee standards applied to large issuers is working as intended, a Federal Reserve Board report released Thursday showed.
By Labor Gazette | May 23, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON — "Because We Are EQUAL to the Task" is the theme of this year's National Disability Employment Awareness Month. Chosen by the U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Disability Employment Policy, the theme reflects the reality that people with disabilities have the education, training, experience and desire to be successful in the workplace.
