News published on Federal Newswire in November 2014

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2014

News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2014

News Release: A Cedar Rapids man who distributed heroin that caused a heroin overdose death pled guilty on Nov. 24, 2014, in federal court in Cedar Rapids.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2014

News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior United States District Judge W. Terrell Hodges sentenced Dominick Nardone (35, Belleview) yesterday to seven years in federal prison for receiving images of child pornography. In addition to the prison term, he will be required to serve a 10-year term of supervision following his release and must register as a sex offender. Nardone pleaded guilty on Aug. 26, 2014.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2014

News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2014

News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Hugo Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Office, and J.D. Patterson, Director, Miami-Dade Police Department (MDPD), announce the sentencing of Andres Campo, 26...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 26, 2014

News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC WATKINS, 26, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: SPOKANE - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jeremiah Dale Fuller, age 29, of Wenatchee, Washington, was sentenced after having previously pleaded guilty on Aug. 13, 2014 to Distribution of Child Pornography. United States District Court...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: 18-year-old Somali American Stopped at Minneapolis/Saint Paul Airport before Boarding Flight to Turkey Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Andrew M. Luger today announced a criminal complaint charging Abdi Nur, 20, and ...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: The Justice Department today announced a settlement resolving a federal civil rights lawsuit against the City of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, for alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Under the proposed consent decree, the city will pay $437,500 in damages to an outpatient psychiatric ...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement with La Farine Bakery, a bakery with two stores in the San Francisco Bay Area. The settlement resolves allegations that the bakery violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by engaging in discriminatory documentary practices. ...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: Xiao Ju Guan, aka Tony Guan, a Canadian antiques dealer, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to attempting to smuggle rhinoceros horns from New York to Canada, announced Sam Hirsch, the Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the Department ...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: A Danish citizen today pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Virginia and was ordered to pay a fine of $500,000 for advertising and selling StealthGenie, a spyware application (app) that could remotely monitor calls, texts, videos and other communications on mobile phones without detection. This ...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: The United States has filed suit against Creekside Hospice II LLC, Skilled Healthcare Group Inc. (SKG), its holding company, and Skilled Healthcare LLC (SKH), an administrative services subsidiary of SKG that operates Creekside (collectively the Creekside entities), alleging that these entities knowingly ...

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder made the following statement today on the ongoing situation in Ferguson, Missouri.

By Fed Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the agencies) on Tuesday announced that they had completed their review of Wells Fargo & Co.'s 2014 resolution plan and issued a joint letter to the firm.

By Fed Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday invited public comment on enhanced prudential standards for the regulation and supervision of General Electric Capital Corporation (GECC), a nonbank financial company that the Financial Stability Oversight Council has designated for supervision by the Board.

By Fed Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: Pacific Mercantile Bancorp, Costa Mesa, California; Pacific Mercantile Bank, Costa Mesa, California Written Agreement issued Aug. 31, 2010 Terminated Nov. 20, 2014 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.

By Fed Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meetings from October 6 and Oct. 27, 2014.

By Fed Newswire | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: On Nov. 24, 2014, the Federal Reserve conducted a fixed-rate offering of term deposits through its Term Deposit Facility. The operation offered eight-day term deposits at an interest rate of 0.29000 percent. Following are the results of the operation: TDF Operation ID: F53 Total Amount Awarded: $334,714,020,000 ...

By Labor Gazette | Nov 25, 2014

News Release: NEW YORK — The U.S. Department of Labor has secured $2,904,000 in back wages for laborers and mechanics who worked on federally funded construction projects in four New York City boroughs.