News from January 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: SAN JOSE - Jamie Harmon, also known as Jamie Harley, was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison for money laundering, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Tatum King, Acting Special Agent in Charge for Homeland Security Investigations, San Francisco.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that the current head of the Mexican drug trafficking organization, the Gulf Cartel, or Cartel del Golfo, has pleaded guilty to drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today announced the launch of five separate bipartisan Finance Committee Tax Working Groups to spur congressional comprehensive tax reform efforts in the 114th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: SAN ANTONIO, Texas - In San Antonio today, a federal jury convicted 36-year-old Agustin Sergio Deleon Garza for his role in the kidnapping of a Mexican businessman in December 2013 announced Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit of the DEA’s Houston Division, Acting United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs of the FBI’s San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Orlando, FL - Chief U.S. District Judge Anne C. Conway today sentenced Joseph Cotto-Diaz (31, Orlando) to 13 years and 5 months in federal prison for aiding and abetting a credit union robbery with assault, and aiding and abetting the use and carrying of a firearm during that robbery. As part of his sentence, Cotto-Diaz was also ordered to pay restitution to his victims.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Secretary Ernest Moniz issued the following statement today on the 2014 National Solar Jobs Census.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Contact: Steve Young. Three men are headed to federal prison for their roles in a marijuana trafficking organization that brought large amounts of high-priced marijuana from Colorado and California to Iowa. Jesse Tolen, Shannon Ehlts, and Corey Marx all pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute marijuana...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Yesterday the House passed H.R. 240, a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security. As introduced by Chairman Rogers, H.R. 240 was a good bill. It provided $39.7 billion in appropriations for the Department, and funded key homeland security ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Payments set to be Reduced Substantially as Program Reauthorization was not Passed WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2015-- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that more than $50 million will be paid to 41 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico to support local schools and roads under the Twenty-Five ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: Southwest, Sierras Remain Dry WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2015 – A normal water supply is predicted for much of the West, while the Southwest, Sierra Nevada region and Pacific Northwest are beginning the year drier than normal, according to data from the first 2015 forecast by USDA's National Water and Climate ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The former Executive Director of International Adoption Guides Inc. (IAG), an adoption agency, pleaded guilty yesterday to making false and fraudulent statements to the Council on Accreditation with respect to IAG’s accreditation. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles of the District of South Carolina made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: On Jan. 12 and 13, 2015, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned 39 separate indictments charging one doctor, Luis Escabi-Pérez, and 39 other individuals for fraud in the application process for Social Security Administration (SSA) disability insurance benefits in Puerto Rico, announced U.S. Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez Vélez for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: In a speech at a Justice Department ceremony honoring the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Attorney General Eric Holder said Thursday that the nation must improve police officer safety at the same time that it confronts the sense of mistrust between law enforcement and the communities they serve. As ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has entered into a consent decree with Clark County, Nevada, that, if approved by the United States District Court for the District of Nevada, will resolve the department’s lawsuit filed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 regarding compensation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that, as part of its Barrier-Free Health Care Initiative, the department has reached a settlement with Genesis Healthcare System (Genesis) to resolve claims that Genesis discriminated against a woman with HIV in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement agreement with U.S. Service Industries (USSI), a janitorial company headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, and operating in Florida, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. The agreement resolves allegations that USSI violated the Immigration ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that First United Bank, of Dimmitt, Texas, will maintain uniform pricing policies, conduct employee training and pay $140,000 as part of a settlement to resolve allegations that it engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination on the basis of national origin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The owner and chief executive of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), a company providing services to the U.S. Navy, pleaded guilty to bribery and fraud charges in federal court today, admitting that he presided over a decade-long conspiracy involving “scores” of U.S. Navy officials, tens of millions of ...
By Fed Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) today made available the public portions of resolution plans for firms with generally less than $100 billion in qualifying nonbank assets, as required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act).
By Fed Newswire | Jan 15, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced its approval of the application filed by Comerica Bank, Dallas, Texas, to establish a branch at 31 68th Avenue in Coopersville, Michigan.
