News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that charges have been filed against Andrea Gemberling, of Shamokin Dam, Pennsylvania.
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., the House Foreign Affairs Committee will meet to consider various measures, including H.Res. 404, expressing deep sympathy and support to the people of the Philippines for the terrible loss of life and massive destruction as a result of Typhoon Haiyan, which landed on November 8, 2013. The markup will be webcast live.
By State Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks, as prepared for delivery on the House Floor, for debate on The PEPFAR Stewardship and Oversight Act of 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that MICHAEL THOMAS, 45, the former Chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council, was sentenced...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JIMI CLARK, owner of a Mo' Money Tax franchise, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for falsely claiming educational tax credits on 47 returns. The American Opportunity Credit (AO Credit) allows certain taxpayers with educational expenses to take a refundable credit on their income taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Nov. 19, 2013, Erick McKay of Devils Lake, N.D., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to two counts of abusive sexual contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Baptist Health Systems, one of the largest health care providers in San Antonio, has paid $3,675,000 to the United States Department of Justice to settle allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by filing false claims for reimbursement under the Medicare program United States Attorney Robert Pitman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two of the stars of the Bravo television show “The Real Housewives of New Jersey" were indicted today on additional charges of bank fraud and loan application fraud, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Cole Brouse, age 20, of Lower Brule, South Dakota, pled guilty to an Information that charged him with Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN), and HELP Committee members Senator Al Franken (D-MN), Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Senator Richard Burr (R-NC) today hailed...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Rand Beers and Attorney General Eric Holder today hosted an EU/U.S. Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial with their counterparts in the European Union: Lithuanian Minister of Justice Juozas ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Two former police officers with the Police of Puerto Rico were sentenced to serve 63 and 60 months in prison for attempting to extort a defendant and soliciting bribe payments of $50,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder and Acting Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Rand Beers today hosted an EU/U.S. Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial with their counterparts in the European Union: Lithuanian Minister of Justice Juozas Bernatonis and Lithuanian Vice Minister of Interior Elvinas ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has opened a pattern or practice investigation of the Family Court of St. Louis. The investigation will focus on whether the court provides constitutionally required due process to all children appearing for delinquency proceedings and whether the court’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Manuel Garcia-Figueroa, a resident of Playa Añasco, Puerto Rico, pleaded guilty to a bill of information charging him with a felony violation of the Lacey Act for the illegal sale of sea turtle meat, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: A senior official in Venezuela’s state economic development bank has pleaded guilty in New York federal court to accepting bribes from agents and employees of a New York-based broker-dealer (Broker-Dealer) in exchange for directing her bank’s security-trading business to the Broker-Dealer.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced its approval of the application by Banco BPI, S.A., Porto, Portugal, to establish representative offices in Newark, New Jersey, and New Bedford, Massachusetts.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker Open for Business Event in Central Ohio Thank you, Mike.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 18, 2013
News Release: It is great to be here in Westerville and the Columbus area. The Buckeyes are having another great year – undefeated. Congratulations.
