News published on Federal Newswire in September 2014

By Interior Newswire | Sep 24, 2014

News Release: WASHINGTON-The National Park Service (NPS) has approved a white-tailed deer management plan to protect long term forest health and preserve the historic settings at three battlefields in the national capital region. The plan calls for reducing deer populations over a number of years in addition to other...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: Spokane - Today, Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jeremiah Joseph Axtell, age 41, of Wapato, Washington, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine. Senior United States District...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Phong Dinh Tran, age 40, of Gaithersburg, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit bank fraud arising from a scheme to use a straw purchaser to buy a liquor store.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Marquel Davon Foster, age 23, of Columbia, South Carolina was sentenced today in federal court after earlier pleading guilty to making a false statement in the acquisition of firearms from a federal firearms licensee, ...

By Homeland Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On Sept. 29-30, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will travel to Ottawa, Canada to meet bilaterally with his Canadian counterparts and discuss engagement through the Beyond the Border initiative. This trip serves as an opportunity ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached an agreement with United Continental Holdings Inc. resolving a claim that divisions of the company previously operating as Continental Airlines discriminated against individuals because of citizenship status in violation of the Immigration and Nationality ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: Sulaiman Abu Ghayth Appeared with Usama Bin Laden and Ayman Al-Zawahiri Immediatelv After Sept. 11, 2001, Threatening Additional Attacks Against the United States United States Attorney General Eric Holder, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, Assistant Attorney ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has asked a federal court in Chicago, Illinois, to permanently bar Anna Platos and Theodore (Ted) Platos, who do business as Midway Accounting Services, from preparing federal tax returns. According to the complaint, Ted Platos began doing business as API Tax Solutions in 2013. The civil injunction suit alleges that Anna Platos and Ted Platos claim bogus deductions and credits on customers’ federal tax returns.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: A Kaysville, Utah, man was convicted Friday of three counts of tax evasion and one count of filing a false tax return, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Jon T. McBride, who was indicted on Mar. 27, 2013, was convicted on Friday, Sept. 19, 2014, following a jury verdict. He faces a statutory maximum sentence of 18 years in prison and a fine of up to $1 million at his Dec. 1, 2014 sentencing before U.S. District Judge Ted Stewart.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: The Department of Justice today announced that it will not challenge a proposal by Flexi-Van Leasing Inc. and Direct ChassisLink Inc. to enter into a Chassis Use Agreement at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, California. Flexi-Van and Direct ChassisLink are chassis leasing companies that also ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: In a speech at the Brennan Center for Justice, Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the federal prison population has dropped by roughly 4,800 inmates since September 2013. This represents the first time the federal inmate population has fallen, rather than risen, over the course of a fiscal year since 1980.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: The Department of Justice announced that Robert Keller, 70, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah today to a federal civil rights crime related to interfering with the housing rights of three members of an interracial family because of the family member’s races and because ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: The former information technology manager of Liberty Reserve, a company that operated one of the world’s most widely used digital currency services and allegedly laundered billions in suspected criminal proceeds, pleaded guilty today in the Southern District of New York in connection with his role in maintaining the company’s technological infrastructure.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: An Army sergeant pleaded guilty today to bribery and conspiracy to defraud the government for his role in a scheme to steal more than one million gallons of fuel from the U.S. military for resale on the black market in Afghanistan.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: A federal court in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, permanently barred Larry E. Snow from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. Snow allegedly claimed false tax deductions on customers’ tax returns.

By Labor Gazette | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Department of Labor has filed suit against Philadelphia-based farm labor contractor Heng Heng Agency Inc. and its president and owner Visith Oum for wage violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and wage, record-keeping, registration and transportation violations of the Migrant ...

By Labor Gazette | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: MIDVILLE, Ga. — Cooksey Iron & Metal Co., doing business as Cooksey Steel Co., was cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 20 safety and health violations following an April 2014 inspection at the company's steel storage and distribution facility on Railroad ...

By Labor Gazette | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: PRATTVILLE, Ala. — Fras-le North America Inc. has been cited by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 17 safety and health violations following a March 2014 inspection at the manufacturer's Prattville facility. The inspection was initiated as part of the agency's Regional Emphasis Program for Safety Hazards in the Auto Parts Industry. Proposed penalties total $67,500.

By Labor Gazette | Sep 23, 2014

News Release: TUSCOLA, Ill. — Roofing contractor Juan M. Garcia Martinez has been cited for four willful safety violations for exposing workers to fall hazards at two separate residential home sites in Tuscola. The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed penalties of $48,400 for the recent citations. OSHA cited the company twice in March 2014 for similar violations.

By DOT News Wire | Sep 23, 2014

The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.