News published on Federal Newswire in August 2015

By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2015

News Release: A project to replace window frames in both entrance station booths at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park will result in alternating lane closures for the next two weeks.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015

News Release: ATLANTA - Jessica L. Hills, the former owner of Direct Tax, has pleaded guilty for her role in a tax fraud scheme by using her business to file thousands of fraudulent returns. Direct Tax was a tax preparation business with three locations in the Atlanta - College Park, Georgia, area.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015

News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Larry W. Flynn, a/k/a “L.W. Flynn," age 40, of Columbia, South Carolina has entered guilty pleas in federal court to Operating a Gambling Business, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1955, and Evading Federal Taxes, in violation...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015

News Release: GAINESVILLE, Ga. - Lanier Treatment Center, Inc., a narcotic treatment program, located in Gainesville, Georgia, has agreed to pay a civil settlement of $20,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the recordkeeping requirements of the Controlled Substances Act. Lanier Treatment Center, Inc. also has agreed to additional oversight from the Drug Enforcement (DEA).

By Commerce Newswire | Aug 25, 2015

News Release: Utah Senator Says, “America’s fiscal path is unsustainable. Our social safety net is coming apart at the seams and unless Congress acts to implement concrete, structural changes to Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, they won’t be there for future generations.".

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015

News Release: Over 250 Individual and Institutional Victims Had Their Identities Stolen and Sustained Actual Losses of Over $126,000.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015

News Release: HOUSTON - Two area residents have been ordered to federal prison for their participation in a scheme to obtain tax refunds in the names of others, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Carey Jermaine Johnson aka Jermaine Johnson, 38, of Houston, and Tarmera Renee Wyckoff aka Toni Wyckoff, 39 of Richmond, had each pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, conspiracy to make false claims to the IRS and making a false claim to the IRS.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015

News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA- On Aug. 24, 2015, David Allen Brensel, a 60 year-old resident of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge John Jarvey to serve 60 months in prison on the charge of possessing a firearm after a felony conviction, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Judge Jarvey also ordered Brensel to serve a term of three years of supervised release after he completes his term of imprisonment.

By Interior Newswire | Aug 25, 2015

News Release: In celebration of the National Park Service 99th birthday, Kenai Fjords National Park will debut its first-ever film, Where Ice and Ocean Meet. The film will be shown starting at 9:00 a.m. in the Kenai Fjords National Park Visitor Center at 1212 4th Avenue. It will continue to play every half hour during open hours until the visitor center closes for the season on Sept. 13, 2015.

By USDA Newswire | Aug 25, 2015

News Release: A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) engineer in Fort Collins, Colorado, is making it easier for growers to determine if their crops are water-stressed.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 25, 2015

News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NELSON DIAZ, 26, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 108 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for planning to conduct an armed robbery of narcotics stash house.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015

News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Orange County man who operated a Ponzi scheme that featured false promises of large returns to victims who invested in debt obligations and distressed real estate pleaded guilty today to federal mail fraud and wire fraud charges.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015

News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 84 months in federal prison for downloading child pornography from the Internet, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015

News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Grover Crossland, Resident Agent in Charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF), announced today that former Searcy Police Chief Jeremy Clark pled guilty to an Information charging him with a violation of federal controlled substance law.

By Homeland Newswire | Aug 24, 2015

News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced a $759,727 cybersecurity Mobile Technology Security (MTS) research and development (R&D) ...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015

News Release: Jason A. Halek, 41, of Southlake, Texas, was indicted in federal court in Bismarck, North Dakota, on 13 felony charges stemming from the operation of a saltwater disposal well near Dickinson, in Stark County, North Dakota, the Justice Department announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015

News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement with Nebraska Beef Ltd., a meat packing company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The settlement resolves an investigation by the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) into whether the company ...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015

News Release: The Justice Department’s Antitrust Division, at the request of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), filed a civil antitrust lawsuit today in U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia against Third Point LLC and three Third Point funds. At the same time, the department filed a proposed settlement ...

By DOJ Newswire | Aug 24, 2015

News Release: Ayman Shahid Admits to Participation in Builder Bailout Scheme to Inflate Home Prices during Peak of Mortgage Crisis Ayman Shahid, 39, of Danville, California, the former president of Discovery Sales Inc. (DSI), pleaded guilty in federal court in Oakland, California, to conspiracy to commit bank fraud ...

By Labor Gazette | Aug 24, 2015

News Release: United Mailing Services agrees to pay $120K in back wages to 251 applicants MILWAUKEE — The U.S. Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has found that United Mailing Services denied jobs to 251 African Americans who completed job applications for entry-level mail processing jobs at its Brookfield, Wisconsin facility.