News published on Federal Newswire in July 2015

By DOE Newswire | Jul 21, 2015

News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, July 28, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Continuing Concerns with the Federal Select Agent Program: Department of Defense Shipments of Live Anthrax."

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: MADISON, Wis. - John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Rhonda Jacquinot, 52, Hayward, Wisconsin, was sentenced today to 57 months in federal prison, without the possibility of parole, by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson. Jacquinot previously...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - On July 20, 2015, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania filed a civil health care fraud lawsuit under the False Claims Act against Melchor Martinez, Melissa Chlebowski, both of Allentown, PA, and their businesses Northeast Community Mental Health Centers (in...

By DOL Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued instructions to compliance safety and health officers on how to ensure consistent enforcement of the revised Hazard Communication standard*. OSHA revised the Hazard Communication standard in March 2012 to align with the United...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Xue Heu, 38, of Modesto, was sentenced today to five years and three months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for investment fraud schemes in Fresno and Texas, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.

By Homeland Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced a new partnership between the DHS Blue Campaign – the unified voice for DHS’s efforts to combat human trafficking – and the South Carolina Office of the Attorney General. ...

By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: $74.8 Million in Telecom Loans and $11 Million in Community Connect Grants will Increase Access for Rural Americans in Seven States WASHINGTON, July 20, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced $85.8 million in funding to strengthen access to high speed broadband for rural America.

By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: Science-based technology provides users greater customizing to help reach and sustain a healthy weight WASHINGTON, July 20, 2015 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) have partnered to add the NIH Body Weight Planner to USDA's SuperTracker online tool as ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: As part of the Justice Department’s year-long celebration marking the 25th anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA)—ADA 25: Advancing Equal Access—the department announced today the signing of three agreements with counties to improve access to all aspects of civic life for persons with ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden for the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) announced the creation of a new position designed to facilitate work with State and local government attorneys.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: The Justice Department announced today that, as part of its Barrier Free Health Care Initiative, it has reached three additional settlements with health care providers to ensure that they are complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The announcement comes as the department marks the ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: The United States filed a complaint seeking to permanently bar a former Staten Island, New York, man and the tax preparation business he operates from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: Irfan Demirtas, aka Nasrullah, 56, a duel Dutch-Turkish national, made his first appearance today in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia on a federal indictment charging him with terrorism offenses arising from his support of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), a designated foreign ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: Agreement Resolves Allegations that Defendants Discriminated Against Section 8 Voucher Holders on the Basis of Race The Justice Department today announced a settlement with the Housing Authority of Los Angeles County (HACoLA), and the cities of Lancaster, California, and Palmdale, California, to resolve ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch met with President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria today at the Blair House in Washington, D.C. Both leaders discussed opportunities for U.S. Department of Justice officials to increase collaborative efforts with their Nigerian counterparts to dismantle and defeat Boko Haram, ...

By Fed Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday approved a final rule requiring the largest, most systemically important U.S. bank holding companies to further strengthen their capital positions. Under the rule, a firm that is identified as a global systemically important bank holding company, or GSIB, will have to hold additional capital to increase its resiliency in light of the greater threat it poses to the financial stability of the United States.

By Fed Newswire | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday issued a final order that establishes enhanced prudential standards for General Electric Capital Corporation (GECC), a nonbank financial company designated by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) for supervision by the Board.

By Commerce News Now | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker will attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES), which will take place July 25-26, 2015 in Nairobi, Kenya. As the Administration’s point person on entrepreneurship, Secretary Pritzker will help lead a U.S. delegation to the Summit, demonstrating the U.S. ...

By Labor Gazette | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON — Ricardo stands on his tiptoes, straining to reach into a tangle of branches to retrieve a cluster of coffee berries. He makes his way along the row of trees, each laden with hundreds of the tiny fruit, dropping them carefully in his basket. He repeats this process for hours. His unprotected ...

By Labor Gazette | Jul 20, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON — Now well into its fourth year, one of the worst droughts in California in more than a century continues to cause economic insecurity for many families in the region, particularly in the agriculture sector. A recent University of California Davis study estimates 18,000 people lost jobs because ...