News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: In Waco today, 33-year-old Jennifer Hailes of Copperas Cove, TX, was sentenced to six months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $6,918.42 restitution for fraudulently using her Lone Star Card benefits announced Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of Federal Initiative to Address the Epidemic Incidence of Violence Against Native Women.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 168 months in prison for brandishing a shotgun during an armed carjacking in Little Falls, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Feb. 10, two former tax return preparers pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia to conspiring to defraud the United States by filing fraudulent tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Department of Justice’s Tax Division.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power hearing “The Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Energy Budget" will now begin at 1 PM today in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 11, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered remarks at a HELP Committee hearing on the National Labor Relations Board’s new representation rule to streamline and modernize election procedures. In her remarks, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Local civic and social organizations are breaking racial, ethnic and religious boundaries by discussing Tanner Colby's Vestavia Hills-based book, Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America. Discussions begin Sunday throughout the metro area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Amy Reyes, 32, a former deputy with the Starr County Sheriff’s Office (SCSO), and her bother Bobby Lee Reyes, 36, both of Rio Grande City, have entered guilty pleas to possession with intent to distribute 34 kilograms of marijuana, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 25-year-old Palestine, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I continue to stress the need for a DHS appropriations bill for FY 2015, unburdened by politically charged amendments that attempt to defund our executive actions on immigration reform. The President has made plain that he will veto a bill that includes such language.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Producers Also Eligible for Disaster Relief Thanks to 2014 Farm Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2015 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has previously designated natural disaster areas in 256 counties across Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah due to drought ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: REAP Program Reduces Energy Costs for Ag Producers and Small Businesses, Boosts Economy, Reduces Dependence on Foreign Oil WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that rural agricultural producers and small business owners can now apply for resources to purchase ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement on the School Breakfast Scorecard released today by the Food Research and Action Center: "It's very encouraging to see more and more students participating in the school breakfast program. School meals now ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: The owner of a Miami home health care agency pleaded guilty today in connection with a $6.9 million Medicare fraud scheme. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Wifredo A. Ferrer of the Southern District of Florida, Special Agent in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement on the resignation of U.S. Attorney Tim Purdon: “Tim Purdon has been an outstanding United States Attorney, a fierce advocate for the people of North Dakota and a strong national leader whose efforts to improve public safety in Indian Country ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Today, the Department of Justice reached a settlement agreement with the Robertson County, Tennessee, school district to resolve the department’s determination that the district had yet to fulfill its desegregation obligations in the areas of student assignment and school construction. The department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: ResCare Iowa Inc. has agreed to pay $5.63 million to the United States and the state of Iowa to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting false home healthcare billings to the Medicare and Medicaid programs, the Department of Justice announced today. ResCare Iowa – a subsidiary of Louisville, Kentucky, based ResCare Inc. – provides home healthcare services to patients in the state of Iowa.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Settlement Requires Substantial Improvements to Dealerships’ Policies and Provides $225,000 in Relief to Affected Customers The U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina and the North Carolina Department of Justice today announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Victim Died After Being Run Over by Truck The Justice Department announced today that Deryl Paul Dedmon, 22, John Aaron Rice, 21, and Dylan Wade Butler, 23, all of Brandon, Mississippi, were sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Jackson for their roles in federal hate crime charges in connection ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Fong Kee Tofu Co. Inc., Yan Hui Fong, the firm’s co-owner and chief executive officer, and Jen Ying Fong and Suny Fong, co-owners and corporate officers, to prevent the distribution of adulterated tofu and other soy food products, the Department of Justice announced today.
