News published on Federal Newswire in January 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has reached a settlement with the National Museum of Crime and Punishment (Crime Museum) to address alleged violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The settlement agreement resolves allegations that some of the Crime Museum’s programs, ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: A leader of a street gang that operated on the east side of Detroit was sentenced to 346 months in prison today for aiding and abetting an armed robbery of a Little Caesars pizza restaurant, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: A former bank employee was sentenced today to serve 87 months in prison for her role in a far-reaching identity theft and tax fraud scheme in which she used her position to help process deposits and withdrawals of nearly $1.1 million in fraudulently obtained federal income tax refunds.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: A Canadian man was arrested today for allegedly orchestrating a large-scale, international stock market manipulation scheme in the first federal prosecution of securities fraud involving a high-frequency trading strategy known as “layering,” U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman for the District of New Jersey announced.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: The Department of Justice filed today a civil forfeiture complaint seeking the forfeiture of nine properties worth approximately $1,528,000 that were allegedly purchased with funds traceable to a $2 million bribe paid by a Honduran information-technology company to the former Executive Director of the Honduran Institute of Social Security.

By Fed Newswire | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the termination of the enforcement actions listed below: Brogan Bankshares, Inc., Kaukauna, Wisconsin Written Agreement issued Feb. 2, 2012 Terminated January 9, 2015 Pedcor Financial, LLC, Carmel, Indiana, Pedcor Financial Bancorp, Carmel, Indiana, ...

By Fed Newswire | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meetings for November 24 and Dec. 15, 2014.

By Commerce News Now | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez, Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett, and Director of the National Economic Council Jeff Zients hosted a delegation of Swiss business leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. The delegation, led ...

By Commerce News Now | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez, Senior Advisor to the President Valerie Jarrett, and Director of the National Economic Council Jeff Zients hosted a delegation of Swiss business leaders in the Roosevelt Room at the White House. The delegation, led ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON — Officials from the U.S. Department of Labor and the Florida Department of Revenue today signed a memorandum of understanding with the goal of protecting the rights of employees by preventing their misclassification as independent contractors or other nonemployee statuses. Under the agreement, ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON — Officials from the U.S. Department of Labor and the Florida Department of Revenue today signed a memorandum of understanding with the goal of protecting the rights of employees by preventing their misclassification as independent contractors or other nonemployee statuses. Under the agreement, ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. — Wielding a large rotating steel drum equipped with sharp tungsten carbide teeth, a continuous mining machine scrapes coal from the mine's seams and drops it onto conveyor belts or into shuttle cars for transport to the surface. As it moves from one tight space to another underground, ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 13, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON — The residents of Atlantic City, N.J., and the surrounding area struggled in 2014 as several major casinos and dozens of businesses closed. The losses including as many as 4,000 jobs at the Revel Casino Hotel, the Trump Plaza, the Showboat Hotel and Casino and 40 other businesses.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2015

The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 13, 2015

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOE Gazette | Jan 13, 2015

The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOE Gazette | Jan 13, 2015

The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOE Gazette | Jan 13, 2015

The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOE Gazette | Jan 13, 2015

The US Energy Department published a one page notice on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOE Gazette | Jan 13, 2015

The US Energy Department published a one page rule on Jan. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.