News published on Federal Newswire in July 2015

By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: USDA serves the Historically Black Land-Grant Colleges and Universities through its 1890 Land-Grant Colleges and Universities National Program, or USDA/1890 Program. The USDA must continue to capitalize on opportunities to broaden outreach efforts into the 1890 community because of the added value brought ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: Three Banks Collectively Will Pay Penalties of More than $3.1 Million and Continue to Cooperate with Department The Department of Justice announced today that Mercantil Bank (Schweiz) AG, Banque Cantonale Neuchâteloise and Nidwaldner Kantonalbank have reached resolutions under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: A 28-count indictment was filed charging a Sheffield Lake, Ohio, man with providing material support to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), as well as firearms and narcotics violations.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: The owner and operator of a payment processing company that was involved in the unauthorized withdrawal of millions of dollars from consumers’ bank accounts pleaded guilty to fraud, the Justice Department announced today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: In two separate cases, two members of the Two Six nation and one member of the Latin Kings were indicted for murder in aid of racketeering and other offenses, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David A. Capp of the Northern ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: A New Hampshire man was charged with remotely hacking into the social media, email and online shopping accounts of almost a dozen minor females and threatening that he would delete, deface, and make purchases from the accounts unless the victims sent him sexually explicit photographs of themselves.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: Distribution Resulting in Death also Added to Indictment A superseding indictment was unsealed today charging William J. O’Brien III, a doctor of osteopathic medicine, with causing a death through the illegal distribution of a controlled substance and charges eight new defendants with O’Brien in a second ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: Scheme Defrauded More than 330 Victims Across the Country A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York sentenced two sales representatives to prison today for their roles in a vending machine business opportunity fraud scheme, the Department of Justice announced today. Howard S. Strauss, 66, of ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: A former Washington, D.C., public school teacher and tax return preparer and her son, a current Washington, D.C., public school teacher and former tax return preparer, were sentenced to prison today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch provided the following statement on the shooting in Chattanooga, Tennessee: “On behalf of the Department of Justice, I offer my heartfelt condolences and deepest sympathies to the loved ones of the U.S. servicemembers who were murdered and the law enforcement officer ...

By Fed Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced its approval of the application under section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act by Cathay General Bancorp, Los Angeles, California, to acquire Asia Bancshares, Inc., and thereby indirectly acquire its wholly owned subsidiary, Asia Bank, National Association, both of Flushing, New York. Attached is the Board's order relating to this action.

By Commerce News Now | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk issued the following statement regarding the outcomes of the first-ever U.S.-Ukraine Business Forum. Co-hosted by the Department of Commerce and U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the forum gathered high-level government and business leaders from both countries to discuss Ukraine’s economic reform agenda and opportunities to improve trade and investment between our two countries.

By Labor Gazette | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: FARGO, N.D. — A Fargo-based hotel owner who cheated his workers out of their wages must pay more than $180,000 to approximately 200 current and former workers at 15 North Dakota, Montana and Minnesota hotels.

By Labor Gazette | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: DALLAS — A local steel fabricator continues to put its workers in harm's way, despite its awareness of hazards at its Farmers Branch facility, and a recent federal inspection that found more than a dozen safety violations.

By Labor Gazette | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: MIDDLEFIELD, Ohio — A teenage worker's life was altered forever when his employer allowed him to operate machinery illegally and the 14-year-old lost his hand in the process.

By Labor Gazette | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A storage tank manufacturer exposed workers to hazardous levels of hexavalent chromium and potentially deafening noise as they welded and grinded stainless steel and other alloy steels. At high levels, hexavalent chromium can cause lung cancer and respiratory, eye and skin damage.

By Labor Gazette | Jul 16, 2015

News Release: ELK GROVE VILLAGE, Ill. — A 25-ton power press crushed a temporary worker's right ring finger when the machine she operated cycled through while her hand was inside. The incident, at a steel parts manufacturing plant in Elk Grove Village, occurred when light curtains that act as machine guards failed to work properly. The woman suffered the injury after just 10 days at Topy Precision Manufacturing Inc.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

The US Interior Department published a one page notice on July 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on July 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2015

The US Interior Department published a two page notice on July 16, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.