News from December 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department announced that a federal grand jury in Shreveport, Louisiana, returned an indictment against former Homer Police Department Officer Willie Fred Knowles, 64, charging him with violating the civil rights of multiple individuals during three different incidents, as well as with making ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney David J. Hickton for the Western District of Pennsylvania and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Eric P. Zahren of the Pittsburgh Field Office today announced the filing of a criminal complaint in Pittsburgh charging a U.S. citizen with leading an international counterfeit currency ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former Rite Aid Corporation Vice President and a New Jersey businessman have been charged in connection with a $14.6 million, surplus inventory sales/kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A former special agent with the Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Inspector General (HHS-OIG) pleaded guilty today to theft of government property for stealing thousands of rounds of law enforcement ammunition, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Special Agent in Charge Elton Malone of HHS-OIG’s Special Investigations Branch.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder, Acting Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta for the Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York announced today that the United States has taken legal action to ensure that critically important reforms are put in place to ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A Miami woman charged with running an operation that threatened and defrauded Spanish-speaking consumers was sentenced today in federal district court in Miami, the Department of Justice and U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced. Maria Luzula, 52, was sentenced to serve 165 months in federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Jonathan M. Hargett, a former civilian employee of the Department of Defense, was sentenced today to serve 40 months in prison on a charge of health care fraud stemming from a scheme in which he collected over $2.2 million after submitting fraudulent claims for federal health care benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: New Memo Applies to All Department of Justice Components and U.S. Attorneys Attorney General Holder announced today that the Department of Justice will take the position in litigation that the protection of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 extends to claims of discrimination based on an individual’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A Pike Road, Alabama, man was sentenced to serve 51 months in prison today for committing stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) crimes, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek for the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: An Alabama woman was sentenced today to serve 70 months in prison for her involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud (SIRF) scheme, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek for the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: An Alabama man was indicted for stolen identity refund fraud, Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Larry J. Wszalek for the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District of Alabama announced today following the unsealing of the indictment. Jerome Marcel Newton was indicted on one count of mail fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: A Flossmoor, Illinois, man was sentenced to serve 46 months in prison and three years of supervised release by U.S. District Court Judge Michael M. Mihm in the Central District of Illinois for obstruction of justice and filing false retaliatory liens against government officials, the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Final 10 of 36 Convicted and Sentenced Ten Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) gang members and associates were sentenced to prison this week for their roles in the violent ABT enterprise, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, a criminal information was filed charging Jonathan L. Herbert, of Lighthouse Point, Florida, with wire fraud, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced. The information charged Herbert, 36, with conducting a home loan modification ...
By Fed Newswire | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board announced on Thursday that it has acted under section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, commonly known as the Volcker Rule, to give banking entities until July 21, 2016, to conform investments in and relationships with covered funds and foreign ...
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Today marked the conclusion of the 25th session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT). U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and United States Trade Representative Michael Froman, the two U.S. co-chairs of JCCT, held a press conference at the end of the event to highlight some of the specific progress that was made at the meeting.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today issued the following statement on the confirmation of Marcus D. Jadotte as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Analysis in the U.S. Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA).
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Agreement reached in several areas of importance to U.S. farmers, innovators, manufacturers and workers U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman today hosted a Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier Wang Yang for the 25th session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission ...
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: Today marked the conclusion of the 25th session of the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT). U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and United States Trade Representative Michael Froman, the two U.S. co-chairs of JCCT, held a press conference at the end of the event to highlight some of the specific progress that was made at the meeting.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2014
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today issued the following statement on the confirmation of Marcus D. Jadotte as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Analysis in the U.S. Commerce Department’s International Trade Administration (ITA).
