News from February 2015
By Commerce News Now | Feb 10, 2015
The US Commerce Department published a three page rule on Feb. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 10, 2015
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on Feb. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: First Public Meeting Scheduled for Feb. 26-27
By DOT News Wire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced today that in calendar year 2014, airlines reported the lowest number of tarmac delays longer than three hours on record. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report, in 2014 there were ...
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the death of American aid worker Kayla Jean Mueller...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: NEWARK - A doctor who owns three immediate care facilities in Hudson County, New Jersey, today admitted making millions of dollars’ worth of cash deposits and fraudulently transferring his residence to a family member to evade taxes, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman and Tax Division Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: MEDORA, ND: Celebrate Presidents Day weekend with a visit to Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Entrance and camping fees will be waived for the three day weekend Saturday, February 14 through Monday, February 16.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is seeking collaborators on an effort to help energy companies improve the security of the networked technologies they rely upon to control the generation, transmission and distribution of power. Participants would provide products and technical...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: A Macomb County business owner pleaded guilty yesterday to intentionally setting a fire at his commercial laundry facility to collect on an insurance policy, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Drug Enforcement (DEA), Coast Guard, U.S. Customs and Border (CBP) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’(ICE) Homeland Security (HSI) seized a 989 (2,176 pounds) cocaine shipment and apprehended 13 men following an at-sea interdiction Tuesday, February 3rd, of a delivery vessel and coastal freighter, approximately eight nautical miles off the coast of Manatí, Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, man today admitted using phony documents and “straw buyers" to fraudulently secure millions of dollars in discounted computer equipment from Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Cisco Systems Inc. (Cisco), U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Shelley Corkins, also known as Shelley Kimbrell, 38, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to three counts of wire fraud in connection with her embezzlement of money from the law firm that formerly employed her, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Dorothy Lee Barnett, a/k/a Alexandria Maria Canton, a/k/a Alexandria Maria Geldenhuys, age 53, of Queensland, Australia, formerly of Isle of Palms, South Carolina, pled guilty to one count of International Parental Kidnapping...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. CEDAR RAPIDS - 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Anthony Douglas Williams, 28, of Greeneville, Tenn., was sentenced on Feb.10, 2015, by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 286 months in federal prison for his conviction on charges of possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine, and knowingly using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking crime. There is no parole in the federal system.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), along with Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) traveled to Corpus Christi, Hidalgo and McAllen, Texas over the weekend, and met with ranchers, sheriffs and Border Patrol agents as a way of examining the challenges associated with...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: A criminal information was filed charging Herman Wayne Bradley, 59, of Rossford, Ohio, for his role in a bank fraud conspiracy, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By State Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement today regarding the death of Kayla Mueller, who was killed after being held hostage by the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) joined Reps. Tim Murphy (R-PA), Tim Ryan (D-OH) and Mo Brooks (R-AL) today in introducing legislation to hold currency manipulators accountable. The Currency Reform for Fair Trade Act takes aim at currency manipulators by enabling...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: A criminal information was filed charging Jacquelyn A. Bradley, 58, of Rossford, Ohio, with structuring a currency transaction to avoid a reporting requirement, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
