News published on Federal Newswire in June 2015

By DOL Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: Employer name: Gehring Construction & Ready Mix Concrete Inc., Columbus, Nebraska

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: BOISE B Juan Loredo, 22, of Salinas, California, was sentenced today to 155 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for bank robbery by use of dangerous weapons, and brandishing of firearms during the commission of a felony offense, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered forfeiture of the three firearms involved in the bank robbery. Loredo pleaded guilty on March 24, 2015.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: Charges Part of Largest National Medicare Fraud Takedown in History.

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement after the House voted on bipartisan legislation to renew Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)...

By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) delivered the following remarks on the House floor in opposition to H.R. 1190, the repeal of the Independent Payment Advisory Board established under the Affordable Care Act...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: A Louisiana media firm owner was sentenced yesterday to 135 months in prison for orchestrating an elaborate $1.2 million scheme to bill car dealerships in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and New Orleans areas for fictitious advertising services. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced today a nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 17 districts, resulting in charges against 243 individuals, including 46 doctors, nurses and other licensed ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: Today, the Justice Department announced that a grand jury in the Southern District of Florida charged Miami Dade Police Department (MDPD) Detective William Kostopoulos, 47, with using his law enforcement authority to violate motorists’ civil rights.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announces today the completion of a Montana operation that convicted 20 defendants for methamphetamine, firearm and money laundering charges, resulting in the seizure of more than half a million dollars worth of meth. Operation Highline Crystal Highway joined more than a dozen ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: On June 18, Covenant Hospice Inc. agreed to pay $10,149,374 to reimburse the government for alleged overbilling of Medicare, Tricare and Medicaid for hospice services, the Department of Justice announced today. Covenant Hospice Inc. is a non-profit hospice care provider which operates in Southern Alabama ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: The Justice Department announced that Graeme Phillip Harris pleaded guilty today in federal court to threatening African-American students and employees at the University of Mississippi by helping place a rope around the neck of the James Meredith statue on campus.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: A Bergen County, New Jersey, man was charged today with conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey and Special Agent in Charge Richard M. Frankel of the FBI’s Newark, New Jersey, Division.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: Hamilton Allegedly Tased Inmates Without Justification and Wrote False Reports to Cover Up Abuse Dwight Hamilton, 51, of Atlanta, Georgia, a former sergeant with the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, was arraigned today on charges of using excessive force against inmates at the DeKalb County Jail and for ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: A Georgia man was sentenced today to 262 months in prison for engaging in sexually explicit conduct with minors and producing images and videos of that conduct during trips to Thailand, and transporting the child pornography into the United States.

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: Jason Woodring, 38, of Jacksonville, Arkansas, was sentenced to 15 years in prison today on charges related to his attacks on Central Arkansas’ power grid between August and October 2013. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Woodring will be required to pay $4,792,224 in restitution to Entergy for ...

By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: Two men were sentenced today for their roles in a sophisticated conspiracy to distribute child pornography online, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Joshua J. Minkler of the Southern District of Indiana. John D. Gries, ...

By Fed Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the approval of a final rule amending Regulation D (Reserve Requirements of Depository Institutions) to make changes to the calculation of interest payments on excess balances maintained by depository institutions at Federal Reserve Banks. The final rule is a matter of prudent planning and has no implications for the near-term conduct of monetary policy.

By Fed Newswire | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: Prime Pacific Financial Services, Inc., Lynnwood, Washington Written Agreement issued Dec. 30, 2009 Terminated June 16, 2015 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.

By Labor Gazette | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: MANKATO, Minn. — Twenty-five employees of a Minnesota restaurant will receive almost $355,000 in back wages after U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigators found that the eatery violated minimum wage, overtime and record-keeping provisions in the Fair Labor Standards Act.

By Labor Gazette | Jun 18, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON — The U.S. labor market is in constant motion as businesses react to fluid marketplace demands. To stay current with these changes and equip workers with the skills needed to be competitive, job-training programs must be nimble and ready to respond as labor demands change.