News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
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By DOE Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives will consider H.R. 3350, the Keep Your Health Plan Act, next week. The Keep Your Health Plan Act was introduced by Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and has been cosponsored by more than 130 members. The bill would allow health plans currently available on the individual market to continue next year, providing Americans the opportunity to continue to enroll in those plans without penalty under the health care law.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Iraqi Consultants and Construction Bureau (ICCB) has paid the United States $2.7 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by bribing a government official to obtain United States government contracts in Iraq, the Department of Justice announced today. ICCB is a privately owned construction company headquartered in Baghdad, Iraq.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Enrique Torres, 43, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was charged today by Indictment with two counts of knowingly transferring identification documents of the United States, two counts of knowingly selling Social Security cards, and one count of unlawful reentry after deportation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Michael Rory Woods, 44, of Buffalo, N.Y., was charged by criminal complaint with making false statements on a loan application in order to secure a refinance mortgage. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison, a fine of $ 1,000,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: A man who robbed banks in Aurora and Frederika, Iowa, and pistol whipped a bank customer during the robbery in Frederika, was sentenced today in federal court in Cedar Rapids to 235 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives will consider H.R. 3350, the Keep Your Health Plan Act, next week. The Keep Your Health Plan Act was introduced by Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and has been cosponsored by more than 130 members. The bill would allow health plans currently available on the individual market to continue next year, providing Americans the opportunity to continue to enroll in those plans without penalty under the health care law.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Buffalo has returned a 68-count indictment charging Brian Smith, 40, of Buffalo, N.Y., with defrauding various individuals, companies, and financial institutions, resulting in a total financial loss of over...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: The Jones Family Historic District located in Biscayne National Park and including the former home and farm of Israel Lafayette Jones and his family, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The listing, which occurred on Oct. 23, 2013, puts the newly declared district on the official list of the nation's historic places worthy of preservation.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Front Range Resource Advisory Council will meet from 9:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. on Nov. 20 and 21 at the Salida Ranger District, 5575 Cleora Road, Salida, Colo.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Theodore Harris, 51, of Holland, PA, was charged today by information with willful failure to pay over employment taxes, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Harris owned and operated Clean Tech USA (“Clean Tech"), a janitorial business located in Huntingdon Valley, PA.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican man pleaded guilty today to theft of public money and passport fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: CANON CITY, Colo. - This November, world-renowned fossils found locally at the Indian Springs Trace Fossil Site will be on display in the BLM’s Royal Gorge Field Office’s front room.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that YVONNE DAVIS, 62, a prisoner at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Danbury, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to 28 months of imprisonment for assaulting another inmate.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly downloading images of child pornography onto a computer in September 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that four southern Missouri men were indicted by a federal grand jury today in separate and unrelated cases for downloading and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Announcement Marks Latest Expansion of DHS’ Blue Campaign Awareness Efforts WASHINGTON— The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced a new alliance between the DHS Blue Campaign— the unified voice for DHS’ efforts to combat human trafficking— and Western Union.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 6, 2013 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it has awarded nearly $10 million to a consortium of academic, industry and government organizations led by Colorado State University (CSU) and their partners to research using insect-killed trees in the Rockies as a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: A third senior U.S. Navy official has been charged in a complaint unsealed today with accepting prostitutes, luxury travel and $100,000 cash from a foreign defense contractor in exchange for classified and internal U.S. Navy information, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy of the Southern District of California.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 6, 2013
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney A. Lee Bentley III and Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels of the Civil Rights Division today announced the conviction of Andrew Blane Fields, 62, of Lutz, Fla., in the Middle District of Florida on charges of possession with intent to distribute controlled substances, ...
