News published on Federal Newswire in August 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2014

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Four men have pleaded guilty to child exploitation offenses in separate cases in federal court this week, U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 27, 2014

News Release: "Full moon lights all the groves and rocks and casts splendid masses of shade on meadow and wall." -John Muir, Letters to a Friend: Written to Mrs. Ezra S. Carr.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2014

News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative action under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against Supreme Cuts LLC.

By US DOT Newswire | Aug 27, 2014

News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council public hearing this week, during which they will consider a proposal to divide the recreational red snapper sector, further partitioning the annual fishery allocations.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Kimberly Frayn of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Nevada and Special Agent Michael P. Adams of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Las Vegas, received awards today in Phoenix, Ariz....

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to 10 years in prison for possessing a pipe bomb crafted from a vehicle airbag canister, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Glenn Anderson.

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 CBP and TSA continue to expand enrollment in trusted traveler programs WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security recently achieved two major milestones for its trusted traveler programs. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) ...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: The former acting director of cyber security at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was convicted by a federal jury in the District of Nebraska today of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, conspiracy to advertise and distribute child pornography, and accessing a computer with intent to view child pornography in connection with his membership in a child pornography website.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: ExxonMobil Pipeline Company (ExxonMobil) has agreed to pay a civil penalty for an alleged violation of the Clean Water Act stemming from a 2012 crude oil spill from ExxonMobil’s “North Line” pipeline near Torbert, Louisiana, the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. Under the consent decree lodged today in federal court, ExxonMobil will pay $1,437,120 to resolve the government’s claim.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: The Department of Justice released today its second report to Congress entitled Indian Country Investigations and Prosecutions, which provides a range of enforcement statistics required under the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010, as well as information about the progress of the Attorney General’s initiatives to reduce violent crime and strengthen tribal justice systems.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: Associate Attorney General Tony West today announced $3 million dollars in grants from the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) to increase local and tribal capacity to prosecute crimes of violence against women and provide services to victims of sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking in the Bakken Region of North Dakota and Montana.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: A co-owner of Professional Medical Home Health LLC was sentenced today to serve 70 months in prison and ordered to pay $6.2 million in restitution for her participation in a health care fraud scheme involving the now defunct home health care company.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: The United States filed a complaint in federal court in Chicago to bar Laurie G. Helfer, aka Laurie G. Powell, individually and through her businesses Laurie’s Freelance & Tax Preparation Services and Tax Lady Laurie Inc., from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.

By Fed Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the termination of the enforcement actions listed below: Riverview Bancorp, Inc., Vancouver, Washington Written Agreement issued May 28, 2013 Terminated Aug. 22, 2014 Trans Pacific Bancorp, San Francisco, California Written Agreement issued Sept. 15, 2010 Terminated Aug. 22, 2014 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.

By Fed Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meetings for July 14 and July 28, 2014.

By Labor Gazette | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Labor has sued Kelly Bailey, owner of SCK Management Services Inc., doing business as PROS Rehabilitation, in an effort to recover approximately $136,484 in missing employee retirement contributions and approximately $24,464 in losses from appreciation accruing on ...

By Labor Gazette | Aug 26, 2014

News Release: GLENVIEW, Ill. — Two employees of DiMeo Brothers Inc. were observed on April 14 working in a 25 foot-deep trench without adequate cave-in protection while installing storm sewers for the Village of Glenview. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited the sewer and water contractor for one willful and two serious safety violations carrying proposed penalties of $44,660.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 26, 2014

The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on Aug. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Aug 26, 2014

The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on Aug. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Aug 26, 2014

The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Aug. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.