News published on Federal Newswire in April 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announced today that a federal grand jury last week returned an indictment charging Christopher Richard Cloonan (44, Jacksonville) with three counts of using a minor to produce images depicting child pornography, one count of possessing...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: OPELOUSAS, La. -The U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Baton Rouge Constable’s Office, and the Opelousas Police Department recently sponsored gun safety demonstrations at six St. Landry Parish elementary schools where students learned about the serious dangers of firearms.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O’Neill sentenced Saul Antonio Morales, 49, of Alpaugh, today to 17 and a half years in prison for drug offenses relating to his involvement in a large marijuana cultivation operation that he maintained on his property, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area will be observing National Park Week from Saturday, April 19, through Sunday, April 27. Everyone is invited to celebrate all that America's more than 400 national parks have to offer with the theme "National Park Week: Go Wild!".

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: Senior Venezuelan Banking Official Allegedly Received At Least $5 Million In Bribes.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - Biscayne National Park's popular Alternative Break program for college students experienced one of the most successful seasons ever. The season was exceptional because volunteers removed a record of over 13,000 pounds of trash from park shorelines, and along with the college student...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that German Caballero Rodriguez, 42, of Houston, and Tyrone James Thibeaux, 38, of Lafayette, were sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Foote for conspiracy with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine. Rodriguez was sentenced to 100 months in prison and Thibeaux was sentenced to 135 months in prison. They will both serve five years of supervised release.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON—U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement Monday regarding the tragic shootings in Kansas yesterday: “I was horrified to learn of this weekend's tragic shootings outside Kansas City. These senseless acts of violence are all the more heartbreaking as they were perpetrated on the eve of the solemn occasion of Passover.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: The government has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit against Orbit Medical Inc. and Jake Kilgore alleging that Orbit Medical’s sales representatives boosted power wheelchair and accessory sales by altering and forging physician prescriptions and supporting documentation, the Justice Department ...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: Hope Cancer Institute, a cancer treatment facility in Kansas, and Dr. Raj Sadasivan, the owner of Hope Cancer Institute, have agreed to pay $2.9 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare, Medicaid and the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program for drugs and services that were not provided to beneficiaries, the Department of Justice announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: The chief executive officer and a managing partner of a New York-based U.S. broker-dealer were arrested today on felony charges arising from a conspiracy to pay bribes to a senior official in Venezuela’s state economic development bank.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that an information was filed charging Robert Keller, 70, with interfering with the housing rights of three members of an interracial family because of the family members’ races and because the family members were living in Hurricane, Utah. Keller has been charged ...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: Acting Assistant Attorney General Jocelyn Samuels for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance for the Northern District of Alabama and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Shwein Jr. announced that a Talladega County, Ala., man was sentenced in federal court ...

By Labor Gazette | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez today announces a grant competition that will award an estimated 24 or more Homeless Veteran Reintegration Program grants totaling approximately $6 million to provide an estimated 2,000 veterans with occupational, classroom and on-the-job training, as well as job search and placement assistance, to help them succeed in the civilian labor market.

By Labor Gazette | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: HONOLULU — The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is launching a local emphasis program to prevent retail sector injuries and fatalities in Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.

By Labor Gazette | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: WICHITA, Kan. — The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited Optica Network Technologies, which operates as Pinpoint Towers LLC, with three serious safety violations after a worker was fatally injured during a fall from a communications tower on Nov. 23 at work site in Wichita.

By Labor Gazette | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — L&L Lumber Co. Inc. has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 26 safety and health violations following an inspection at a work site in Huntsville. OSHA initiated the October 2013 inspection of the company's facility after receiving a complaint concerning hazardous working conditions. The company makes lumber pallets and railings, and employs approximately 60 workers. Proposed penalties total $45,780.

By Labor Gazette | Apr 14, 2014

News Release: JOHNSTON, Iowa — Iowa-based investment advisor Donald Gene DeWaay Jr. has paid $341,487 to 68 pension plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The payments were made as part of a settlement agreement following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security ...

By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

The US Interior Department published a three page notice on April 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2014

The US Interior Department published a one page notice on April 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.