News published on Federal Newswire in April 2015

By Commerce Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today commended the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) increased outreach to high schools, colleges, and families across the country on how to take advantage of underutilized tax credits to help pay for higher education...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that MARCELLO TREBITSCH was arrested this morning on wire fraud and securities...

By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: Last year the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area successfully completed the first year of the park's Trail Keeper volunteer program. Trail Keepers is a volunteer program for people who love the park's trails and want to help take care of them. The goal of the program is to provide an extended presence in the backcountry and, at the same time, provide the Big South Fork's staff with information on trail conditions.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Ryan Joseph Hribick, 34, of Minersville, formerly of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to all four counts in the pending indictment charging him with one count of possession of unregistered firearms, one count of manufacturing and dealing explosive materials, one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, and one count of witness tampering. United States District Judge Robert F. Kelly scheduled sentencing for Hribick on July 17, 2015.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Vallas Paul Bell, 31, of Hurricane, West Virginia, received five years of probation today for stealing more than $24,000 of his mother’s Social Security Benefits after her death. The Social Security payments for Bell’s mother were...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former California prison inmate, incarcerated for state sex offenses, was sentenced in federal court today for using a smuggled cell phone to distribute child pornography...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: The U.S. has reached a settlement with Cal-Maine Foods, Inc., one of the nation’s largest egg producers, that resolves Clean Water Act violations at the company’s poultry egg production facility in Edwards, Mississippi, announced the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and ...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: A federal inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Hazelton, West Virginia, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison today for the murder of another inmate, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II of the Northern District of West Virginia.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: A Tarzana, California, man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to serve two years in prison on charges related to an odometer tampering scheme, the Department of Justice announced. Shamai Salpeter, 66, was sentenced by Chief Judge George H. King in the Central District of California ...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: Two Colombian nationals were sentenced to decades in U.S. federal prison today for their roles in the kidnapping and murder of former Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent James “Terry” Watson in Bogotá, Colombia, on June 20, 2013. Attorney General Eric Holder, Assistant Attorney General ...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: The company owner, a top executive and their company, Quality Egg LLC, were sentenced today in federal district court in Sioux City, Iowa, the Department of Justice announced. Austin “Jack” DeCoster, 81, of Turner, Maine, who owned Quality Egg, was sentenced to serve three months in prison to be followed ...

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: Defendant Worked on Unsuccessful Campaign of Washington, D.C., Council Candidate A 33-year-old Washington, D.C., man was sentenced today to serve 16 months in prison for evading income taxes and violating campaign finance laws while working as the treasurer and custodian of records for a District of Columbia political campaign.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: One former security guard for Blackwater USA was sentenced today to a term of life in prison, and three others were each sentenced to prison terms of 30 years and one day for their roles in the Sept. 16, 2007, shooting at Nisur Square in Baghdad, that resulted in the killing of 14 unarmed civilians and the wounding of numerous others.

By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: With the annual tax filing deadline approaching on Wednesday, Apr. 15, the Justice Department’s Tax Division reminds U.S. taxpayers across the country and around the world of their obligation to file timely and accurate income tax returns. “As U.S. taxpayers, we enjoy many benefits, including the security ...

By Fed Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday requested public comment on proposed amendments to Regulation D (Reserve Requirements of Depository Institutions) making technical changes to the calculation of interest payments on certain balances maintained by depository institutions at Federal Reserve Banks. The proposed amendments are a matter of prudent planning and have no implications for the near-term conduct of monetary policy.

By Fed Newswire | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced that it is accepting Statements of Interest from individuals who wish to be considered for membership on the Community Advisory Council (CAC). The formation of the CAC was announced in January. The council will advise the Board on issues affecting consumers ...

By Labor Gazette | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. — A manufacturer of custom-sized resin balls used in the petroleum industry failed to protect its employees from the risk of death or serious injury from potential fires, explosions and other hazards by not providing and using mandatory safeguards, U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors have found.

By Labor Gazette | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: CHICAGO — Hundreds of thousands of workers suffer finger, hand or foot amputations and other serious injuries each year in the United States because dangerous machines with moving parts lack proper safety mechanisms. Despite these dangers, one Chicago-based manufacturer ignored safety requirements and put workers at risk for debilitating injuries.

By Labor Gazette | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: DES PLAINES, Ill. — Each day, somewhere in this country, construction workers fall. One wrong step can send them tumbling down a steeply pitched roof, sliding or dropping off an unstable ladder, or left hanging fearfully from a scaffold. In these cases, one thing stands between them and tragedy: fall protection.

By Labor Gazette | Apr 13, 2015

News Release: BEDFORD HEIGHTS, Ohio — On just his second day on the job, a 28-year-old man working on a machine to forge parts lost a fingertip in a November 2014 incident that investigators say could have been prevented if his employer had trained the man to properly operate the upsetter machine and the machine had proper safety mechanisms. The man was unable to work for two weeks after the injury.