News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Pembroke man has been charged with tax evasion and related offenses including sending documents to the Secretary of the Treasury demanding payment of $100 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Cheryl Garcia, the Acting Special Agent-in-Charge for the New York Regional Office of the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Worcester with trying to bribe a federal safety investigator in order to avoid negative findings on a safety review of his motor carrier company.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of unlawfully selling drug samples, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: 20 Defendants Have Now Been Charged, 16 Have Pled Guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Nelly Dadson, age 23, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiring to commit bank fraud, bank fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with two bank fraud schemes.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors decision to increase postal rates...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Amid news reports the Administration is crafting new regulations to appease union critics of the health care law, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today requested the Congressional Budget...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: “On Sept. 26-27, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Rand Beers will travel to New York and Canada. On Sept. 26, Acting Secretary Beers and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Acting Commissioner Thomas Winkowski will travel to Buffalo, N.Y. to inspect border security operations and receive operational briefings from CBP and U.S. Coast Guard employees in the region. Later that day, Acting Secretary Beers will travel to Montréal.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 25, 2013 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced funding to provide safety training for the more than 2 million youth working in agricultural production.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding for projects in 22 states that will help agricultural producers and rural small businesses reduce their energy consumption and costs. Funding will also allow producers to use renewable energy technologies in their ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Two former derivatives brokers and a former cash broker employed by London-based brokerage firm ICAP were charged as part of the ongoing criminal investigation into the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Kan-Di-Ki LLC, formerly known as Kan-Di-Ki Inc., doing business as Diagnostic Laboratories and Radiology (Diagnostic Labs), will pay $17.5 million to settle allegations that the California-based company violated the federal and California False Claims Acts by paying kickbacks for referral of mobile lab and radiology services subsequently billed to Medicare and Medi-Cal (the state of California’s Medicaid program), the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached an agreement with Infinity Group (IG) and its related entities resolving allegations that the companies violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). IG is based in Clute, Texas and provides project-based temporary skilled labor to client companies. IG employs over a thousand individuals in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Five Miami residents have been charged for their alleged roles in a $48 million home health Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department today announced an enhanced online resource designed to support American victims of overseas terrorism. The site, sponsored and maintained by the National Security Division’s Office of Justice for Victims of Overseas Terrorism (OVT), will expand the public’s ability to obtain information ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with the City of Birmingham, Ala., that, if approved by the court, will resolve the Department’s complaint alleging religious discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended. The ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Grantees expect Projects to create more than 2,500 jobs and generate $505 million in private investment U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $21.1 million in grants to support economic development projects ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Departments of Commerce and Agriculture, along with the Environmental Protection Agency and Small Business Administration, release first round of “Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership” funding U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, along with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, along with U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, and Acting Small Business Administrator Jeanne A. Hulit, today announced the winners of the first funding phase of the “Investing in Manufacturing ...
