News from December 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that Chief U.S. District Court Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced WHITTNEY M. LATHAN of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to ten (10) months in federal prison; a five-year term of supervised release following her release from prison; restitution in the amount of $508,182; and forfeiture of assets in the amount of $309,350.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Yesterday, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson met with Chilean Minister of Interior Jorge Burgos to discuss progress on a number of shared security and travel facilitation issues.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Our thoughts are with the victims of yesterday’s horrific shootings in San Bernardino, and with their families.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Contact: S&T Public Affairs, 202-254-2385 Washington, D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced the award of five contracts totaling $7.8 million for research on technologies to help defend against attacks on cyber physical systems. Awarded ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Ten Puerto Rico businessmen and government officials have been indicted for their alleged participation in several schemes to corruptly give things of value to public officials within the government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico in exchange for favorable treatment and awarding of government contracts ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: On Dec. 2, 2015, the Justice Department hosted a convening to address the effect and fairness of fees and fines. The department convened judges, academics and practitioners to develop a research and policy agenda that will inform jurisdictions in their efforts to reform court practices. On Dec. 3, the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Recoveries Exceed $3.5 Billion for Fourth Consecutive Year The Department of Justice obtained more than $3.5 billion in settlements and judgments from civil cases involving fraud and false claims against the government in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Benjamin ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that EFG Bank European Financial Group SA, Geneva (EFG Group), and EFG Bank AG (EFG Bank) reached a joint resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program. EFG Group and EFG Bank (collectively EFG) will pay a penalty of more than $29 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Estimated $42 Million Settlement Resolves Clean Air Act Violations at Plants in California, Idaho and Wyoming The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with the J.R. Simplot Company that resolves alleged Clean Air Act violations related to modifications ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Cashed More than 361 Fraudulent Tax Refund Checks A Columbus, Georgia resident pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy to commit theft of public money, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney G.F. “Pete” Peterman, III for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: The New Defendants Include Five Current or Former FIFA Executive Committee Members and the Current Presidents of CONCACAF and CONMEBOL; Guilty Pleas for Eight Others, Including Jeffrey Webb and the Former Presidents of the Colombian and Chilean Soccer Federations, also Announced A 92-count superseding ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Led Attack on U.S. and Afghan Forces in Afghanistan in 2009Led Attack on U.S. and Afghan Forces in Afghanistan in 2009 Irek Ilgiz Hamidullin, 55, a Russian national and former Russian army tank commander, was sentenced today to life plus 30 years in prison for conspiring to shoot down American helicopters ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: A grand jury today indicted four correctional officers from the St. Bernard Parish Prison in Chalmette, Louisiana, for violating the civil rights of inmate Nimali Henry by deliberately ignoring serious medical needs that led to her death. The indictment was announced by Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Thai Union Group P.C.L., owner of Tri-Union Seafoods LLC, d/b/a Chicken of the Sea International, and Bumble Bee Foods LLC abandoned their plans to merge after the Department of Justice informed the companies it had serious concerns that the proposed transaction would harm competition.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department yesterday filed a lawsuit against the city of Lubbock, Texas, alleging that the city’s police department engaged in a pattern or practice of employment discrimination against Hispanics and women in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The lawsuit, filed in the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: The General Electric Company (GE) has agreed to pay a $2.25 million civil penalty to resolve a complaint alleging violations of federal and state environmental laws in connection with GE’s use of an incinerator at a manufacturing facility that it once owned and operated in Waterford, New York, announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Construction Company Owner Pleads Guilty to Tax Violation Law enforcement agencies conducting a joint federal and state investigation into bid-rigging, fraud and tax-related offenses in the award of contracts by the New York Power Authority announced today that a construction company owner from Orangeburg, New York, has pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return. This is the second guilty plea in the investigation, which was initiated by the New York State Inspector General.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced today that the Justice Department collected $23.1 billion in civil and criminal actions in the fiscal year (FY) ending Sept. 30, 2015. Collections in FY 2015 represent more than seven and a half times the approximately $2.93 billion of the Justice Department’s combined appropriations for the 94 U.S. Attorneys’ offices and the main litigating divisions in that same period.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: Defendant Admitted his Participation in MS-13 and Witness Retaliation Murder Conspiracy A North Plainfield, New Jersey, man pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to commit murder in furtherance of a racketeering enterprise known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 3, 2015
News Release: The owner of two Arkansas mental health companies that provide inpatient and outpatient mental health services to juveniles was indicted yesterday for engaging in a scheme to bribe a former deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS), announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division.
