News from August 2015
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: WESTBOROUGH, Mass. - A Massachusetts in-home health care business on Thursday became the latest in the state to become a partner in a nationwide program by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to ensure a legal and more secure work force.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. August 6: Live Webinar on H2 Refuel H-Prize Safety Guidance. Webinar Sponsor: Fuel Cell Technologies Office. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled "H2 Refuel H-Prize Safety Guidance" on Thursday, August 6, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. This webinar...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: Involved false income tax returns of over $400,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The chief executive officer of Chicago-based Home Physician Services LLC was arrested Thursday on charges that he billed Medicare for up to $1.2 million in fraudulent or non-existent services purportedly provided to the elderly and homebound.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Michael Bradshaw, 31, of Nampa, Idaho, was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for distributing methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Bradshaw to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term, during which Bradshaw may not have contact with documented gang members. Bradshaw pleaded guilty to the charge on May 26, 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation chairman Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.), in a letter sent yesterday, called on President Barack Obama to, “nominate, without delay, a...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., August 6th - Senate labor and government affairs leaders today urged the Obama administration to pull its “incomplete" guidance proposal to implement an executive order forcing federal contractors to detail their past labor law record, and suspend its related proposed rule until the guidance is completed.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 6, 2015
News Release: North Country Drug Organization Dismantled. PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - On August 5 and 6, 2015, Patrick Lloyd, 27, and Michael Spencer, 27, pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute controlled substances, as wells possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Jefferson City, Mo., attorney has pleaded guilty in federal court to enlisting a U.S. citizen to marry a Ukrainian national (with whom he was having an affair) so that she could remain in the United States and seek citizenship.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: A nine-count federal indictment was filed charging a Marion man with selling heroin and fentanyl that resulted in an overdose death, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Special Agent in Charge Joseph P. Reagan.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released the following statement regarding the Senate’s consideration of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015...
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has joined Public Safety Canada and the Secretariat of Governance of Mexico in outlining the first steps toward the creation of a North American Trusted Traveler network. The new agreement ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 5, 2015 — For the first time in its 110-year history, the Forest Service, part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is spending more than 50 percent of its budget to suppress the nation's wildfires. A new report released today by the Forest Service estimates that within a decade, the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Labeling Failed to Disclose That “Potion 9” Contained an Ingredient Known to Metabolize into What is Commonly Referred to as a “Club Drug” or “Date Rape Drug.” Tayfun Karauzum, 45, of Newport Beach, California, has been sentenced in U.S. District Court in Providence, Rhode Island, to five years in federal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Three members of a 2012 presidential campaign committee were charged with offenses relating to the concealment of payments made to a former Iowa State Senator.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: A Department of Justice official released the following background statement at the conclusion of Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch’s meeting with Attorneys General from all Central American nations: “On Wednesday, Attorney General Lynch convened the first ever ‘Dialogue’ with the Attorneys General of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: An Ohio man was convicted yesterday after a two-day jury trial in the Western District of North Carolina for his role in a Costa Rican telemarketing scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department has reached a comprehensive settlement agreement with the county of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles County Sheriff to protect prisoners from serious suicide risks and excessive force in the Los Angeles County Jails, announced Deputy Assistant Attorney General Mark J. Kappelhoff ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Defendant Screamed Homophobic Slurs while Chasing Gay Men with a Knife A 38-year-old Bremerton, Washington, man was charged today with a federal hate crime under the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr., Hate Crimes Prevention Act, for a January 2015 assault on three gay men, announced Principal Deputy ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 5, 2015
News Release: Three tax return preparers were indicted today by a federal grand jury in Richmond, Virginia, on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal income tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia.
