News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Level III sex offender was sentenced today for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Investigation by FBI’s Cross Border Task Force Results in The Conviction of the Final Defendant in a Violent Robbery and Carjacking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Charleston, WV - A Cleveland, Ohio man pleaded guilty today to illegally possessing a stolen firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. James Herod III, 33, pleaded guilty in federal court in Charleston.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced today that XPLOR ENERGY SPV-1, INC. (“XPLOR"), an Oklahoma corporation located in Southlake, Texas, was charged today in a one-count bill of information with knowingly violating the Clean Water Act, Title 33, United States Code, Section 1319(c)(2)(A), in connection with their oil and gas production activities in the Breton Sound Area of the Gulf of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Donald S. Gingerella, 53, of Westerly, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence on Friday to theft of government funds and Social Security fraud, after an investigation revealed that since January 2008, Gingerella collected nearly $83,000 from various federally funded public assistance programs to which he was not entitled. He faces statutory penalties of up to 25 years in federal prison when he is sentenced on Dec. 11, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2014
News Release: Join Oregon Caves for its eighth annual volunteer cave cleanup day.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 13, 2014
News Release: DOT 84-14 Richmond RICHMOND, Va. – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was in Richmond today to announce a $24.9 million TIGER grant for the Greater Richmond Transit Company toward the construction of the Broad Street Bus Rapid Transit line in Henrico County. The project is one of 72 transportation ...
By DOT News Wire | Sep 13, 2014
News Release: DOT 84-14 LOS ANGELES – U.S. Department of Transportation Deputy Secretary Victor Mendez was in Los Angeles today to announce that the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has been awarded two TIGER grants totaling $22.05 million to modernize the busy Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station ...
By DOT News Wire | Sep 13, 2014
News Release: DOT 84-14 TRI-Mississippi NATCHEZ, Miss. – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was in Natchez, Miss., today to announce a $17.9 million grant for the TRI-Mississippi project that will build 18 bridges with support from the Department’s Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 13, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the National Football League Players Association voted to approve the NFL drug policy proposal, which includes testing for human growth hormone (HGH) for the 2014 NFL season...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Funds will help capitalize rural businesses and create jobs in economically distressed communities BURLINGTON, Vt., Sept. 12, 2014 – Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden today announced that USDA is investing in rural businesses and development organizations to spur economic growth in rural areas and in Tribal communities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: A former salesman at a prominent Los Angeles car dealership and another Southern California man were charged with odometer tampering, the Justice Department announced today. Jeffrey Levy, 62, and Shamai Salpeter, 65, both of Woodland Hills, California, were charged in separate criminal informations with conspiracy to commit odometer tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it filed a motion to show cause why Bayer Corporation should not be held in civil contempt for violating a court order in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The court order, entered in 2007 in United States v. Bayer Corporation, prohibits ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Today the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) released Implementing a Body-Worn Camera Program: Recommendations and Lessons Learned. The report analyzes some of the costs and benefits of law enforcement using body-worn video technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: A federal court in New Orleans has permanently barred a La Place, Louisiana, woman from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: A Wisconsin pharmacist and a Nevada pharmacologist were arraigned on an indictment today in Federal Court in Central Islip, New York, before United States Magistrate Judge Gary Brown. The defendants are charged with conspiring to supply at least four million misbranded and counterfeit pharmaceuticals to an illegal Internet pharmacy based in Costa Rica that catered to U.S. customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice and the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS), which administers AmeriCorps national service programs, has awarded $1.8 million in grants to increase the effective and efficient adjudication of immigration proceedings involving certain children who have crossed ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Date of Action: Sept. 11, 2014 Type of Action: Complaint Name(s) of Defendants: Polar Dry Ice Inc. and Polar Dry Ice Inc. 401(k) plan Allegations: Based on an investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration, the Secretary of Labor filed a complaint ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 12, 2014
News Release: Date of Action: Sept. 10, 2014 Type of Action: Consent order and judgment Name(s) of Defendant(s): David Kephart, Timothy Kephart, Kephart Trucking Co., and the Kephart Trucking Co. 401(k) plan Allegations: Based on an investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security ...
By Fed News Journal | Sep 12, 2014
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Sept. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
