News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson and Ottawa County Prosecutor Ronald J. Frantz joined U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles in announcing today that Joseph Jerry Sweet, age 33, and Ronald Patrick Cook, age 27, both from the Grand Haven area, pled guilty to two counts of stealing firearms from Federal Firearms Licensees. The defendants face up to ten years in prison on each of the two counts of conviction.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The National Weather Service report for this morning has issued a high surf advisory which is in effect until 5 am PDT Tuesday, October 1.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The former owner of a Los Angeles medical clinic management company has been indicted for his role in a $13 million scheme to defraud Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: A former owner of a Los Angeles medical equipment supply company has been indicted for allegedly engaging in a $4 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it intends to file a lawsuit against the State of North Carolina, the North Carolina State Board of Elections, and the Executive Director for the State Board of Elections over recent voting changes made by North Carolina House Bill 589, which was signed into law in August 2013. The United States’ complaint challenges provisions of House Bill 589 under the non-discrimination requirements of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: Two financial investors who purchased municipal tax liens pleaded guilty today for their roles in a conspiracy to rig bids at auctions conducted by New Jersey municipalities for the sale of those tax liens, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: A former residential sales manager of a Florida property management company was sentenced to serve 24 months in prison today in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, in Orlando, for his participation in a wire fraud scheme involving housing repair contracts for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: A Pennsylvania man today admitted he conspired to defraud FIRSTPLUS Financial Group Inc. (FPFG), a Texas-based financial services company allegedly targeted for extortionate takeover and looting by a group led by alleged Lucchese organized crime family member Nicodemo S. Scarfo.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced it has filed a lawsuit today in the federal district court for the Western District of Michigan against the owners and manager of Alger Meadow Apartments in Grand Rapids, Mich., alleging that the manager has sexually harassed tenants in violation of the Fair Housing Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that the Housing Authority for the City of Ruston, La., has engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against African-American tenants, in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act. The Ruston Housing Authority is a public housing authority that provides housing for persons of low income in Ruston. Currently, the Ruston Housing Authority owns and maintains five housing complexes in Ruston.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: William Robert Hupman Jr., of Mebane, N.C., was sentenced to serve 17 months in prison followed by one year of supervised release for tax fraud today, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Hupman was also ordered to pay restitution to the IRS of $103,420.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department filed a settlement agreement and order today that resolved allegations that Chevy Chase Bank F.S.B. engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against qualified African-American and Hispanic borrowers in its home mortgage lending from 2006 through 2009. The settlement, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement with the South Carolina Department of Corrections (SCDC) and its director, to resolve alleged violations of Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (Section 504). The ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit against the manager and owner of the Linden House Apartments in Cleveland for refusing to rent apartments to families with children in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON — A New Jersey jury convicted a former project manager for his central role in conspiracies that spanned seven years and involved kickbacks in excess of $1.5 million at two Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Superfund sites in New Jersey, the Department of Justice announced today. The jury ...
![OSHA News Release: US Labor Department's OSHA orders Clean Diesel Technologies Inc. to pay over $1.9 million to former CFO fired for reporting conflict of interest [09/30/2013]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/48/d5/11410085/webp_adobestock_309942906.webp)
By Labor Gazette | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: Company violates Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistleblower protection provisions BOSTON — The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered Clean Diesel Technologies Inc. to pay $1.9 million to its former chief financial officer who was fired for reporting conduct the former ...
![MSHA News Release: US Labor Department's MSHA awards $582,804 in Brookwood-Sago mine safety grants [09/30/2013]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/ef/b3/11410079/webp_adobestock_324498179.webp)
By Labor Gazette | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today awarded $582,804 in grants through its Brookwood-Sago program to five organizations that provide education and training within the mining industry. The funding will be used to develop and implement training and related materials for mine emergency preparedness, as well as for the prevention of accidents in underground mines.
![ILAB News Release: US Labor Department commemorates 20 years of work combating international child labor with release of new reporting and $26 million in grants [09/30/2013]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/6f/df/11410065/webp_adobestock_228780059.webp)
By Labor Gazette | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez today announced the release of a new report and updated list on child labor and forced labor and the award of $26 million in grants to combat child labor in four countries. The event at the department's headquarters included remarks by Secretary Perez, Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa and former Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman, as well as a video message from Dr. Maya Soetoro-Ng of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
![ETA News Release: US Labor Department announces grants to five states for initiative to help the unemployed get back to work [09/30/2013]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/d3/44/11410080/webp_adobestock_329938866.webp)
By Labor Gazette | Sep 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the award of five grants totaling $400,000 to California, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Kentucky. The grants are part of the department's Reemployment Connections initiative, an effort to better integrate the Unemployment Insurance program with the broader workforce system in order to improve the re-employment outcomes for Unemployment Insurance claimants and other job seekers.
By State News Post | Sep 30, 2013
The US State Department published a two page notice on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
