News published on Federal Newswire in April 2014

By USDA Newswire | Apr 3, 2014

News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Staunton Fruit and Produce Co. Inc., Verona, Va., for failure to pay for produce.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014

News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Christopher Scott O’Brien, II (age 23, St. Johns) yesterday pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography over the Internet. O’Brien faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years in federal prison, and a potential life term of supervision. A sentencing date has not yet been set.

By Interior Newswire | Apr 3, 2014

News Release: ATLANTA,GA -- Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site will.

By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today applauded the passage of her bill securing protection of a privately owned subsistence cabin on an Alaska Native veteran allotment within the Yukon-Delta National Wildlife Refuge from demolition by federal land managers. The Senate unanimously supported Murkowski’s amendment to protect the cabin.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2014

News Release: NIST-F2 Atomic Clock News Briefing: * Opening Statement by Tom O'Brian, Chief, Time and Frequency Division. * Opening Statement by Steve Jefferts, NIST Project Leader, Primary Frequency Standards. * Webinar recording. See backgrounder on clock operation and accompanying animation of NIST-F2. BOULDER, ...

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 3, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act, legislation introduced by committee member Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), marking the tenth Energy and Commerce Committee public health bill to become law in the 113th Congress. This law will redirect wasteful spending on political conventions to important pediatric research.

By US DOT Newswire | Apr 3, 2014

News Release: Chairman Lou Barletta (R-PA). Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management. Hearing on “Disaster Mitigation: Reducing Costs and Savings Lives". April 3, 2014. Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). Today’s hearing will focus on disaster mitigation and what communities...

By DOE Newswire | Apr 3, 2014

News Release: Upcoming Webinars. April 10: Live Webinar on Climate Change Impacts and Indian Country: Built Systems and Other Infrastructure. Webinar sponsors: White House Office of Public Engagement, White House Council on Environmental Quality, and DOE’s Office of Indian Energy. The Energy Department will present...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 3, 2014

News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Shanika Brewer, 35, of Tracy, pleaded guilty today to embezzling from a healthcare program and mail fraud relating to a separate embezzlement, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014

News Release: BOSTON - A former employee of the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles was sentenced today for his role in a conspiracy to produce false information documents.

By USDA Newswire | Apr 2, 2014

News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Seminis Vegetable Seeds, Inc., Oxnard, Calif., has paid $350 to settle alleged violation of the Federal Seed Act.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014

News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Felipe Alvarado Gonzalez, age 46, a Mexican National who resided in Pawtucket, Rhode Island pleaded guilty today to Conspiracy to Engage in Racketeering and Conspiracy to Launder Money. Alvarado Gonzalez faces a maximum of 40 years’ imprisonment, a fine of $750,000, and three years of supervised release. Further, the defendant is illegally within the United States and faces deportation following the service of his prison sentences.

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., are long-time advocates for transparency in medicine and co-authors of the Medicare Data Access for Transparency and Accountability Act (Medicare DATA Act). They made the following comments on the announcement today from the Centers...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014

News Release: A federal indictment returned under seal in June 2013 and unsealed today charges six foreign nationals, including a Ukrainian businessman and a government official in India, with participating in an alleged international racketeering conspiracy involving bribes of state and central government officials ...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014

News Release: Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Division Stuart F. Delery and U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin James L. Santelle announced today that a federal grand jury indicted two men for odometer tampering and related crimes. Erick Sanchez-Pulido, 30, and his brother, ...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014

News Release: The Department of Justice announced the filing of a lawsuit today against Clark County, Nev., alleging that the county discriminated against Therese Scupi, an African-American woman, on the basis of race and sex and retaliated in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended. Title ...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014

News Release: Edward N. Levine, 63, of Mill Valley, Calif., and Lumsden W. Quan, 46, of San Francisco, were indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas today for the illegal sale of two horns from an endangered black rhinoceros, announced Robert G. Dreher, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s ...

By Labor Gazette | Apr 2, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON — Olivet Management LLC, a real estate development and management company that owns the former Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center in the Wingdale section of Dover Plains, N.Y., faces a total of $2,359,000 in proposed fines from the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. ...

By Labor Gazette | Apr 2, 2014

News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. — The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found that workers at Salko Kitchens Inc. were exposed to fire and explosion hazards and a potential occupational carcinogen due to deficient required safeguards. Proposed fines total $51,800.

By Labor Gazette | Apr 2, 2014

News Release: ATLANTA — The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration is partnering with construction contractors, the Federal Highway Administration, the state of Georgia and local government organizations to sponsor a one-hour safety stand-down at construction sites around Georgia during National Highway Work Zone Awareness Week from April 7-11.