News from September 2013
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 BUFFALO, N.Y.—Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Rand Beers today traveled to Buffalo, N.Y. where he joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Acting Commissioner Thomas Winkowski to inspect border security operations and receive operational briefings from CBP and U.S. Coast Guard personnel in the region.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2013–Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the United States and Japan formed a partnership that will recognize the two organic programs as equivalent and allow access to each other's markets.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sep. 26, 2013—The United States and Japan today announced that beginning Jan. 1, 2014, organic products certified in Japan or in the United States may be sold as organic in either country.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced grants to support small, socially disadvantaged agriculture producers. The U.S. 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 | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Also Announces Funds to Improve Medical Services in Mississippi Delta Region WASHINGTON, Sept. 26, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today visited Jackson, Miss., and announced new investments to support producers and rural communities throughout Mississippi. The Secretary announced funding for ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Nine Japan-based companies and two executives have agreed to plead guilty and to pay a total of more than $740 million in criminal fines for their roles in separate conspiracies to fix the prices of more than 30 different products sold to U.S. car manufacturers and installed in cars sold in the United ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: A patient recruiter of a Miami health care company pleaded guilty today for his participation in a $48 million home health Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: A high-ranking member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) was sentenced today to serve 360 months in prison for his role in the ABT’s criminal enterprise, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Several patient recruiters, including two medical clinic owners, have been arrested in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving defunct home health care company Flores Home Health Care Inc. (Flores Home Health).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Southport Bank of Kenosha, Wis., will pay $687,000 to African-American and Hispanic wholesale mortgage borrowers as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of race and national origin. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with Huber Nurseries, based in Manheim, Pa., resolving allegations that Huber engaged in citizenship status discrimination by preferring to hire temporary visa holders over recent lawful permanent residents from Nepal. The underlying charge was filed by Philadelphia Legal Assistance on behalf of the lawful permanent residents.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that a federal district judge in Kansas City, Mo., permanently barred Mark Steven Hall from preparing federal income tax returns for others. According to the court’s civil injunction order filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri, from ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today that Reece Powers II, the former co-owner of R&J Partnership Ltd. doing business as Reece’s Las Vegas Supply (RLVS), a gambling supplies store located in Dayton, Ohio, was charged with illegal gambling, tax fraud and obstruction-of-justice-related ...
By Fed Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the execution of the following enforcement action: SunSouth Bancshares, Inc. (PDF), Dothan, Alabama Written Agreement dated Sept. 20, 2013 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced its approval of the application and notice under sections 3 and 4 of the Bank Holding Company Act by One PacificCoast Foundation and One PacificCoast Bancorp, Inc. both of Oakland, California, to become bank holding companies by acquiring 90.1 percent of ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today met with the Honourable Ed Fast, Canadian Minister of International Trade in Washington. This was their first face-to-face meeting.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today issued a statement congratulating Ana Maria Rey for being named a winner of the 2013 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation of Chicago Fellowship. Rey is a physicist and fellow at JILA , a joint institute of the University of Colorado Boulder and Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today met with the Honourable Ed Fast, Canadian Minister of International Trade in Washington. This was their first face-to-face meeting.
![MSHA News Release: MSHA announces results of August impact inspections [09/26/2013]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/2f/cf/11410059/webp_adobestock_198806990.webp)
By Labor Gazette | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Department of Labor's Mine Safety and Health Administration today announced that federal inspectors issued 213 citations, 23 orders and one safeguard during special impact inspections conducted at nine coal mines and five metal/nonmetal mines last month.
![ETA News Release: More than $18.5 million in Disability Employment Initiative grants awarded by US Labor Department to eight states [09/26/2013]](https://s3.amazonaws.com/jnswire/jns-media/54/9d/11410068/webp_adobestock_263034311.webp)
By Labor Gazette | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor today announced grants totaling $18,597,758 to eight states to provide education, training and employment opportunities for youth and adults with disabilities. The grants are part of the Disability Employment Initiative, a program jointly funded and administered by the department's Employment and Training Administration and Office of Disability Employment Policy.
