News published on Federal Newswire in January 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: Today, the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division reached an agreement with the state of Kansas to reform the Kansas State Department of Corrections (KDOC) correctional practices at the Topeka Correctional Facility (TCF) to protect its women prisoners from sexual victimization. The agreement resolves ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: Daiichi Sankyo Inc., a global pharmaceutical company with its U.S. headquarters in New Jersey, has agreed to pay the United States and state Medicaid programs $39 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to induce physicians to prescribe Daiichi drugs, including Azor, Benicar, Tribenzor and Welchol, the Justice Department announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: A southwest suburban Bolingbrook man who was arrested in October, was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly attempting to travel overseas to join a foreign terrorist organization operating inside Iraq and Syria, federal law enforcement officials announced today. The defendant, Mohammed Hamzah ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: Andrew Weissmann has been selected as the Chief of the Criminal Division’s Fraud Section, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: Convicted After Trial of Multiple Counts of Providing Material Support to al Qaeda Charges Based on Participating in a Deadly Hostage-Taking in Yemen, Conspiring to Establish a Terrorism Training Camp in the United States, and Sending One of his Followers to Train and Fight with al Qaeda in Afghanistan ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: A former state circuit judge in Arkansas pleaded guilty today for accepting a bribe in exchange for reducing a negligence jury verdict against a Conway, Arkansas, company. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and First Assistant United States Attorney Patrick C. Harris of the Eastern District of Arkansas made the announcement.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: A Miami owner of a home health care company pleaded guilty today in connection with a $32 million Medicare fraud scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: Justice Department Will Defend Constitutionality of Trademark Statute Earlier today, the government filed a notice of intervention in Pro-Football, Inc. v. Amanda Blackhorse, et al. notifying the court in the Eastern District of Virginia that it would defend the federal authorities of the U.S. Patent ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: A former London, Kentucky, doctor pleaded guilty today to filing false tax returns on which he falsely reported millions in fictitious business expenses to reduce his taxable income, announced Deputy Assistant Attorney General David A. Hubbert for the Justice Department’s Tax Division. According to the ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: A federal court in Dallas has permanently barred Ricia Daniels and Ricia Daniels doing business as Ricia’s Convenience Tax Service and Ricia’s Convenience Tax Service Inc. from preparing tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.

By Fed Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced preliminary unaudited results indicating that the Reserve Banks provided for payments of approximately $98.7 billion of their estimated 2014 net income to the U.S. Treasury. Under the Board's policy, the residual earnings of each Federal Reserve Bank are distributed to the U.S. Treasury, after providing for the costs of operations, payment of dividends, and the amount necessary to equate surplus with capital paid-in.

By Commerce News Now | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today released the following statement on the December jobs report which showed that U.S. employment rose by 252,000 last month.

By Commerce News Now | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: “I applaud President Obama's announcement of a $250 million public and private sector investment to launch a Manufacturing Innovation Institute for Advanced Composites in Knoxville, Tennessee. The new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) institute is designed to foster pre-competitive ...

By Commerce News Now | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today released the following statement on the December jobs report which showed that U.S. employment rose by 252,000 last month.

By Commerce News Now | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today issued a statement following President Obama’s announcement of the creation of a new National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI) institute.

By Labor Gazette | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: Date of Action: Jan.7, 2015 Type of Action: Complaint Name(s) of Defendant(s): Nathan Williams, NW Systems Inc., and NW Systems Inc. 401(k) Profit-Sharing Plan and Trust Allegations: Based on an investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration, the Secretary ...

By Labor Gazette | Jan 9, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez issued the following statement about the December 2014 Employment Situation report released today: "The U.S. economy closed out the year on a continued hot streak — 252,000 new jobs, with the unemployment rate falling to 5.6 percent. December was the ...

By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2015

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.