News published on Federal Newswire in February 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former president of the union representing Jackson County Department of Corrections employees was indicted by a federal grand jury today for a wire fraud scheme in which he embezzled more than $185,000 from the union local.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: San Juan, Puerto Rico -Twenty individuals, including ringleaders, straw buyers, sellers, real estate agents, and an accountant have been charged in a 11-count indictment unsealed today and returned by a grand jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico on Feb. 12, 2014, U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez...

By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: First Lady Michelle Obama and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announce proposed school wellness standards and roll out of breakfast and lunch programs for schools that serve low income communities WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2014 – Today, First Lady Michelle Obama joins U.S. Department ...

By USDA Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2014 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will provide close to $3 million in technical and financial assistance for interested farmers and ranchers to help improve the health of bees, which play an important role in crop production. ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: Diagnostic Imaging Group (DIG) has agreed to pay a total of $15.5 million to resolve allegations that its diagnostic testing facility falsely billed federal and state health care programs for tests that were not performed or not medically necessary and by paying kickbacks to physicians. Assistant Attorney ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: A Northern California real estate investor has agreed to plead guilty for his role in conspiracies to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure auctions in Northern California, the Department of Justice announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: A civilian employee of the U.S. Navy posted at the Capodichino Navy Base near Naples, Italy, was arraigned yesterday in Norfolk, Va., for allegedly obtaining more than $360,000 in housing benefits that he was not entitled to receive.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: The Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan and the FBI announced today that they will not be pursuing federal criminal civil rights charges against the Saginaw Police Department (SPD) officers who shot and killed Milton ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: Today, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee, Okla., convicted Raymond A. Barnes, 43, and Christopher A. Brown, 32, the former jail superintendent and assistant jail superintendent, respectively, of the Muskogee County Jail (MCJ) on multiple counts ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: Aaron H. Kelly, a United States Postal Service employee, was indicted yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland for four counts of mail fraud, two counts of bank fraud, one count of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and two counts ...

By Fed Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced that results from the latest supervisory stress tests conducted as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act will be released on Thursday, March 20, and the related results from the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review, or CCAR, will be released on Wednesday, March 26. Results will be released for both exercises at 4 p.m. EDT.

By Fed Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the termination of the enforcement actions listed below: Hampton Roads Bankshares, Inc. and Bank of Hampton Roads, both of Norfolk, Virginia Written Agreement dated June 9, 2010 Terminated Feb. 20, 2014 Metropolitan Bank Holding Corporation, New York, New York Written Agreement dated January 4, 2011 Terminated Feb. 21, 2014 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.

By Fed Newswire | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meeting on Jan. 27, 2014.

By Commerce News Now | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced that U.S. exports supported more than 11.3 million jobs in 2013, up 1.6 million jobs since 2009. A U.S. Department of Commerce report issued today releases the 2013 jobs-supported-by-exports number and also highlights revisions to earlier projections for export-related jobs. The data in the report show that exports now support more jobs than any time in the past 20 years.

By Commerce News Now | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: “President Obama's announcement today of two new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) institutes will help spur advanced technologies critical to keeping America innovative and competitive in the global economy,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. “These two new hubs build ...

By Commerce News Now | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced that U.S. exports supported more than 11.3 million jobs in 2013, up 1.6 million jobs since 2009. A U.S. Department of Commerce report issued today releases the 2013 jobs-supported-by-exports number and also highlights revisions to earlier projections for export-related jobs. The data in the report show that exports now support more jobs than any time in the past 20 years.

By Commerce News Now | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: “President Obama's announcement today of two new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) institutes will help spur advanced technologies critical to keeping America innovative and competitive in the global economy,” said U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. “These two new hubs build ...

By Labor Gazette | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON — More communication tower workers were killed in 2013 than in the previous two years combined, and four more tower-related deaths have already occurred in 2014. Every one of those deaths was preventable. This disturbing trend appears to be continuing, and actions must be taken to prevent ...

By Labor Gazette | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. — Domestic Casting Co. LLC has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 26 alleged safety violations found at its Shippensburg foundry. The company faces $163,240 in proposed penalties for seven repeat, 16 serious, and three other-than-serious safety violations. OSHA initiated an inspection in August 2012 in response to a complaint.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 25, 2014

News Release: MILWAUKEE — E.R. Wagner Manufacturing Co. has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 14 safety violations, carrying proposed penalties of $106,000. OSHA initiated an inspection of the Milwaukee plant in August 2013 under the Site-Specific Targeting Program , which focuses on facilities with a higher than average illness and injury rate.