News published on Federal Newswire in February 2015

By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget proposal.

By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 PHOENIX – Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas today concluded a trip to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Phoenix for a series of workforce engagements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Citizenship ...

By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 In recent days I have repeatedly stressed 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 3, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 3, 2015 –The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced the availability of more than $16 million in funding to support research, education and Extension efforts to improve food production and increase food security, defined as regular access to affordable, nutritious food. NIFA is funding the grants through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) Food Security program.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has asked a federal court in Greenbelt, Maryland, to permanently bar a Silver Spring, Maryland, tax preparer, doing business as Eplanet, Eplanet LLP, Eplanet Corp., and Eplanete Corp., from preparing tax returns for others. The government also filed a motion for a preliminary injunction seeking to prevent Komi Gbotcho from filing any returns for the 2014 tax year.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Department of Justice and 19 states and the District of Columbia have entered into a $1.375 billion settlement agreement with the rating agency Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, along with its parent corporation McGraw Hill Financial Inc., ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: A former sergeant from the Police of Puerto Rico (POPR) was sentenced today to serve 101 months in prison for his involvement in a July 2012 home invasion robbery in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. A second former POPR officer was also sentenced today to serve 24 months in prison for lying to federal agents about his role in the same robbery and for his participation in a second, unrelated robbery.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: Patient Recruiter Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Participating In The Same Scheme A South Florida man was sentenced to 10 years in prison today in connection with a long-running $6.2 million Medicare fraud scheme involving Professional Medical Home Health LLC (Professional Home Health), a Miami ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached settlement agreements with the cities of DeKalb, Illinois; Vero Beach, Florida; Fallon, Nevada; and Isle of Palms, South Carolina. The agreements resolve investigations of each city under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). ...

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: A former senior federal contracting officer was arrested this morning for conspiracy to commit bribery in connection with his alleged role in a scheme to steer contracts and benefits to Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), a defense contracting firm headquartered in Singapore.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: An Army National Guard official pleaded guilty today for accepting a $30,000 bribe in exchange for steering a $3.6 million contract to a retired sergeant major of the Minnesota Army National Guard and his consulting company. Today’s guilty plea is the eighth in connection with an investigation into corruption within the National Guard Bureau related to the awarding of millions of dollars of Army National Guard marketing, retention and recruitment contracts.

By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: The U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Atrium Medical Corporation (Atrium), Maquet Holding B.V. & Co. KG (Maquet), Maquet Cardiovascular LLC (Maquet CV), Maquet Cardiopulmonary AG (Maquet CP), Heinz Jacqui and Gail Christie to ...

By Labor Gazette | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: SCA Inc. plant in Auburn, Alabama, where workers were exposed to several safety hazards.

By Labor Gazette | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: DALLAS — The dangers of worker exposure to hexavalent chromium, a known carcinogen that can cause serious long-term health issues, including lung cancer and kidney failure, should have come as no surprise to the Lane Plating Works Inc. owner. Air-monitoring tests told him that workers were being overexposed ...

By Labor Gazette | Feb 3, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON — More than 9 million people are released from more than 3,000 county jails nationwide each year, many with few job skills and little prospect for employment. Without a strong support system or a steady job, many former inmates commit new crimes and end up back in jail — a cycle of incarceration ...

By Commerce News Now | Feb 3, 2015

The US Commerce Department published a nine page proposed rule on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2015

The US Interior Department published a one page proposed rule on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By USDA Wire | Feb 3, 2015

The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By USDA Wire | Feb 3, 2015

The US Agriculture Department published a three page notice on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By USDA Wire | Feb 3, 2015

The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Feb. 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.