News from August 2015
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 19, 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 $576,000 cybersecurity Mobile Technology Security (MTS) research and development (R&D) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: A federal jury in Los Angeles late yesterday convicted the former owner, operator and managers of a Southern California ambulance company of health care fraud charges in connection with a Medicare fraud scheme of at least $2.4 million. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Mississippi Phosphates Corp. (MPC), a Mississippi corporation which owned and operated a fertilizer manufacturing facility located on Bayou Casotte in Pascagoula, Mississippi, pleaded guilty today to a felony information charging the company with a criminal violation of the Clean Water Act, announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice Tribal Access Program (TAP) Will Improve the Exchange of Critical Data Department of the Interior Companion Program to Provide Name-Based Emergency Background Checks for Child Placement The Department of Justice is launching an initial phase of the Tribal Access Program for National ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: A former locally-employed staff member of the U.S. Embassy in London was charged with engaging in a hacking and cyberstalking scheme in which, using stolen passwords, he obtained sexually explicit photographs and other personal information from victims’ email and social media accounts, and threatened to share the photographs and personal information unless the victims ceded to certain demands.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: A Phenix City, Alabama, resident pleaded guilty today in the Middle District of Alabama to conspiracy and aggravated identity theft for her role in a multimillion-dollar stolen identity tax refund fraud (SIRF) scheme, Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: A New Jersey man was convicted in federal court today of illegally trafficking in paddlefish caviar after being caught in stemming from an undercover operation in the Warsaw, Missouri, area, announced the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Missouri.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: Contractor Allegedly Failed to Perform Required Quality Control Reviews on Contracts for Background Investigations with the U.S. Office of Personnel Management The Justice Department announced today that U.S. Investigations Services Inc. (USIS) and its parent company, Altegrity, have agreed to settle ...
By Fed Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on July 28-29, 2015.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today named four leading experts on public safety, wireless broadband communications, and state and local government to serve three-year terms on the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet) Board. FirstNet is an independent authority within Commerce’s National ...
By Commerce News Now | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: On Thursday and Friday, August 27 and 28, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will travel to Youngstown, Ohio; Knoxville, Tenn.; and Chicago, Ill. to tour three institutes that are part of the National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI).
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By Labor Gazette | Aug 19, 2015
News Release: BOSTON — Before consumers get to choose products in the supermarket, workers in warehouses nationwide pack bulk quantities of merchandise onto wooden pallets and load them onto delivery trucks. The nature of this work puts the people who do it at risk for serious sprains, strains and other musculoskeletal injuries. One supermarket chain, Maine-based Hannaford Supermarkets, has chosen to address the issue.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Aug. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 19, 2015
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Aug. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 19, 2015
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 19, 2015
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 19, 2015
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Aug. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 19, 2015
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Aug. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 19, 2015
The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Aug. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOE Gazette | Aug 19, 2015
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
