News published on Federal Newswire in August 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: ABILENE, Texas -Rockey Koonce, 40, of Lueders, Texas, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis to 192 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in April 2015 to one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 GREAT FALLS, Mont. — Yesterday, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas concluded a two-day trip to Montana where he joined U.S. Senator Jon Tester to meet with first responders and Federal, state, and local law enforcement to discuss collaboration on a wide range of homeland security-related priorities, including border security and efforts to combat human trafficking.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: Department to Invest Additional $211 Million to Help Ranchers Adopt Proven Conservation Methods PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 27, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a four-year strategy that will invest approximately $211 million through 2018 in conservation efforts to benefit the greater ...

By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 2015 — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today made the following statement on the release of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's fourth quarter Outlook for U.S. Agricultural Trade.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, Aug. 27, 2015 — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today released the following statement on the passing of Amelia Boynton Robinson, a key civil rights leader and former employee of the Department of Agriculture, where she worked to ensure that rural African Americans across the South had ...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Hypothekarbank Lenzburg AG (HBL) has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: Ahmed Mohammed El Gammal, aka Jammie Gammal, 42, of Avondale, Arizona, was indicted today for providing and conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, as well as for aiding and abetting the receipt of military-type ...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: Dean Daniels, 52, Richard Smith, 57, Brenda Daniels, 45 and William Bradley, 58, all of Florida, pleaded guilty and were sentenced today in U.S. district court for charges related to a scheme involving the false production of biodiesel.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: Dozens of Investors Lost More Than $13 Million in Scheme A Florida businessman was sentenced today to 17 years in prison for his role in an investment fraud scheme resulting in over $13 million in losses to dozens of investors.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: A San Diego tax return preparer was arrested today after being indicted by a federal grand jury sitting in the Southern District of California on 36 counts of 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.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: A resident of Lima, Peru, was indicted by a Miami grand jury on fraud and attempted extortion charges for allegedly operating call centers that lied to and threatened Spanish-speaking victims in the United States, convincing them to pay fraudulent settlements. Cesar Luis Kou Reyna, 40, was charged in a 33-count indictment with conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and attempted extortion.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: A Brunswick, Maine, businessman was sentenced to prison today for tax crimes in U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II of the District of Maine.

By Commerce News Now | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis today released its second estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) growth for the second quarter of 2015. Real GDP rose 3.7 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter, well above the first quarter’s 0.6 percent pace and the BEA’s initial ...

By Labor Gazette | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: US Department of Labor finds General Atomics violated federal wage requirement SAN DIEGO — Federal law requires government contractors to pay their workers the prevailing wage rates and fringe benefits in their geographic area. On the books for half a century, the law ensures that companies do not make their services less costly at the expense of their workers, or drive down wages for other area workers.

By Labor Gazette | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: LANCASTER, Ohio – Two years after agreeing to reduce workers' exposure to lead and cadmium , a Lancaster battery recycling facility continues to expose workers to dangerously high airborne concentrations of the metals – a leading cause of workplace illness – which can cause long-term damage to the central nervous, urinary, blood and reproductive systems.

By Labor Gazette | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: OSHA cited Retriev Technologies for same hazards in 2012 LANCASTER, Ohio — Two years after agreeing to reduce workers' exposure to lead and cadmium , a Lancaster battery recycling facility continues to expose workers to dangerously high airborne concentrations of the metals — a leading cause of workplace illness — which can cause long-term damage to the central nervous, urinary, blood and reproductive systems.

By Labor Gazette | Aug 27, 2015

News Release: OSHA also finds combustible dust hazards that could have caused an explosion JACKSON, Mo. — When U.S. Department of Labor inspectors entered a baby diaper recycling facility, they were investigating how a 54-year-old team leader had four fingers amputated in a recycling machine. Inside the Wahlco-D.W. ...

By DOT News Wire | Aug 27, 2015

The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Aug. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Aug 27, 2015

The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Aug. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Labor Gazette | Aug 27, 2015

The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Aug. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.