News published on Federal Newswire in January 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014

News Release: SEATTLE - U.S. District Judge James L. Robart today approved sweeping new Seattle Police Department policies on biased policing and investigative stops. The new policies were created by the city of Seattle in conjunction with the Justice Department, and approved the federal Monitor. The new “Stops and...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014

News Release: Today, ranking member of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) attended President Obama’s address on surveillance reform at the Department of Justice. In his remarks, the President concurred with many of the findings of the review group he convened on Intelligence and Communications ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014

News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Paula Reid...

By State Newswire | Jan 17, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senators Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Ben Cardin, D-Md., and John McCain, R-Ariz., all members of the Foreign Relations Committee, today requested the Obama administration add individuals to a U.S. government list of Russian human rights abusers who are subject ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014

News Release: The United States Attorney's Office today announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014

News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on Jan. 15, 2014, Arlen McWain, 60, of Barre, Vermont was sentenced to time served after his guilty plea to a charge that he possessed explosive materials as a convicted felon in July 2012. At the time of sentencing, ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014

News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas; William J. Bryant, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock District Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA); and Scott Ellington, District Prosecuting Attorney for the Second Judicial ...

By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del) released the following statement on the retirement of the Committee’s Ranking Member, Dr. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON -- Benjamin Grey, 33, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a prison term of 8 ½ years on charges stemming from a scheme in which he posed as a car dealer to defraud individuals and banks of more than $185,000, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Kathy A. Michalko,Special Agent in Charge, Washington Field Office, U.S. Secret Service, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014

News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RICHARD MELTZ pled guilty today to charges arising from his involvement in two separate conspiracies to kidnap, rape, and murder specific women. MELTZ, at the time the Chief of Police, United States Department...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. CINCINNATI - A U.S. District Court jury today convicted James O. Napier, 39, of Cincinnati of producing child pornography involving an 11-month old infant and...

By USDA Newswire | Jan 16, 2014

News Release: USDA research shows improvements in diet quality between 2005 and 2010 WASHINGTON, Jan. 16, 2014 - American adults are eating better, making better use of available nutrition information, and consuming fewer calories coming from fat and saturated fat, consuming less cholesterol and eating more fiber, according to a new report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service; Changes in Eating Patterns and Diet Quality Among Working-Age Adults, 2005-2010.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014

News Release: Two men have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Las Vegas for offenses involving the federal renewable fuel program that allegedly netted them more than $37 million, announced the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division, Criminal Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014

News Release: Koito Manufacturing Co. Ltd., a Tokyo-based company, has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a total of $56.6 million in criminal fines for its roles in separate price-fixing conspiracies involving automobile lighting fixtures and lamp ballasts installed in cars sold in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014

News Release: A former sergeant of the Portsmouth Sheriff’s Office (PSO) was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison today for accepting bribes in exchange for favors and referrals.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014

News Release: Four men have pleaded guilty for their roles in a highly sophisticated and violent organization that targeted jewelry couriers in Georgia and Texas. The defendants were caught as part of a national effort to find and prosecute roving groups of robbers who travel around the country targeting jewelry couriers and other business people.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014

News Release: Sasha Webb and Charlie Jackson have each been indicted for stolen identity refund fraud crimes, Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of 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 their indictments after their arrests. Webb was arrested on Dec. 20, 2013, and Jackson’s arrest took place on Jan. 15, 2014.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014

News Release: David Haigler of Montgomery County, Ala., was sentenced today to serve 37 months in federal prison for his involvement in a stolen identity tax refund fraud scheme, Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department's Tax Division, U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2014

News Release: Russell Burroughs, a resident of Montgomery, Ala., was indicted on 33 counts of filing false tax returns, Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of 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 yesterday.

By Labor Gazette | Jan 16, 2014

News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. — An ongoing enforcement initiative conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division focusing on the child care industry in Kentucky has uncovered significant violations of the minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. In fiscal ...