News published on Federal Newswire in December 2014

By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2014

News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) sold five acres of public land to the State of Nevada Housing Division for development of affordable senior housing in the southern part of the Las Vegas Valley, at the intersection of Agate Avenue and Kimo Street. The sale is authorized under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA).

By Interior Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: Grab your daypack and join the National Geographic Society and the National Park Service at the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park BioBlitz and Biodiversity &Cultural Festival, Friday and Saturday, May 15 and 16, 2015. During the free, two-day event, teams of scientists, Hawaiian cultural practitioners...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, Dec. 22, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER BRYAN COLEMAN, 25, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated that Webster Douglas Williams, III, age 56, of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was sentenced in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251(a) and (e), Travel With Intent...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A former Winston County sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty today in federal court to using his police authority to extort a woman to cook methamphetamine, and to causing her to manufacture and distribute the drug at the home where she lived with a minor child, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Duane Thomas Mobley, age 40, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, today to nine years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to rob a business and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, in connection with the May 22, 2013 armed robbery of a pizza restaurant.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

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By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Pedro Oscar Dieguez, a/k/a “The Cuban," was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney to serve 400 months in prison and five years of supervised release on cocaine trafficking and related charges, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Whitney also ordered the defendant to pay a $20,000 fine and the forfeiture of Dieguez’s Mercedes vehicle, three firearms and $1,890 in cash.

By USDA Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON, Dec. 22, 2014 -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the appointment of members to the National Advisory Committee on Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI) for the 2014-2016 term.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: Alstom S.A. (Alstom), a French power and transportation company, pleaded guilty today and agreed to pay a $772,290,000 fine to resolve charges related to a widespread scheme involving tens of millions of dollars in bribes in countries around the world, including Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the Bahamas.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: A federal court in Waco, Texas has permanently barred Patricia Foley aka Sissy Foley; Amanda Smith; April Leann Morgan aka April Leann Ercanbrack; Cassandra Egbert and Joshua Stifle, individually and doing business as Accounting System Services and doing business as A Kind Bookkeeping and Tax Service ...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: Twelve former Puerto Rico police officers have been sentenced for using their law enforcement affiliation and equipment to commit robbery and extortion, and to sell illegal narcotics and manipulate court records. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez of the District of Puerto Rico and Special Agent in Charge Carlos Cases of the FBI’s San Juan Division made the announcement.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: The Justice Department reached an agreement today with Diversified Business Consulting Group Inc., an information technology staffing agency headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland. The settlement resolves the department’s claims that Diversified discriminated against work-authorized non-U.S. citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON—Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement Monday in response to President Obama’s announcement of his intent to nominate Sally Yates, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, to serve as the next Deputy Attorney General, succeeding James M. Cole: "I congratulate Sally Yates on her forthcoming nomination as Deputy Attorney General -- an important and demanding office in which she will most certainly excel.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: A major Israeli international bank admitted that it conspired to aid and assist U.S. taxpayers to prepare and present false tax returns to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by hiding income and assets in offshore bank accounts in Israel and elsewhere around the world. A deferred prosecution agreement ...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: The Department of Justice and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that XTO Energy Inc. (XTO), a subsidiary of ExxonMobil and the nation’s largest holder of natural gas reserves, will spend an estimated $3 million to restore eight sites damaged by unauthorized discharges of fill material ...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: A federal court in Memphis, Tennessee, permanently barred three individuals from preparing tax returns for others and owning or operating a tax return preparation business, the Justice Department announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: The United States has filed a civil False Claims Act complaint against Omnicare Inc. alleging that it solicited and received millions of dollars in kickbacks from pharmaceutical manufacturer Abbott Laboratories, the Justice Department announced today. Omnicare is the nation’s largest provider of pharmaceuticals ...

By Fed Newswire | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) today published a consultative paper entitled "Revisions to the Standardized Approach for credit risk." These proposed revisions are intended to apply primarily to large, internationally active banking organizations and not community banking organizations. A key objective of the paper is to seek comment on preliminary alternatives to internal models and external credit ratings for calculating risk-weighted assets.

By Labor Gazette | Dec 22, 2014

News Release: DELTA, Mo. — A 16-year-old laborer was fatally struck by the swinging cab and boom of a crane being disassembled by Robertson Incorporated Bridge and Grading Division at a construction site in Delta on June 18, 2014. A U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation ...