News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Cheryl Reed Johnson aka Shawnee Reed and Cheryl Reed, 37, of Humble, has been convicted of engaging in a conspiracy to commit bank, mail and wire fraud as well as making false statements to a bank and wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Test. March 31, 2015 - Press Releases. Test. SUBCOMMITTEE: Full Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX- On March 30, 2015, Emilio Luna, 44, of Sun City, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 14 years in federal prison, to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release. Luna previously pleaded guilty on two counts of distribution of child pornography during a time when he was a practicing pediatrician. Luna is also required to register as a sex offender and prohibited from working as a pediatrician.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Republican Study Committee Chairman Steve Scalise (R-LA), and Rep. Steve Southerland (R-FL) introduced the Preserving Work Requirements for Welfare Programs Act of 2013, prohibiting the Obama Administration from waiving the work requirements that were a critical element of welfare reform enacted in 1996.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement after the House passed two bills to reduce the tax burden on small businesses, H.R. 4457, America’s Small Business Tax Relief Act of 2014 and H.R. 4453, the S Corporation Permanent Tax Relief Act of 2014...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On April 1, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will travel with U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft to the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., to attend the memorial service for two U.S. Coast Guard Cadets who passed away earlier this month. Secretary Jeh Johnson
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I regret that Chairman Chaffetz and his staff have taken the unprecedented and unnecessary step of subpoenaing two members of the U.S. Secret Service with the responsibility for the protection of the President, his family and the White House complex. Chairman Chaffetz’s assertion that this Department has been “uncooperative” is simply wrong.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Private landowners, tribes, and eligible entities encouraged to apply by May 15 Audio WASHINGTON, March 31, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that U.S. Department of Agriculture is making available $332 million in financial and technical assistance through the Agricultural Conservation ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Agriculture Department Celebrates Life and Legacy of American Hero WASHINGTON, March 31, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the naming of the Cesar Chavez Courtyard at USDA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 31, 2015 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced funding awards totaling nearly $19 million, including more than $6.7 million for antimicrobial resistance strategies, to 36 grantees to ensure a safe and nutritious ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 31, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today made the following statement: "I was deeply saddened to learn that U.S. Forest Service Engineering Technician Steve Cobb gave his life in service to his country yesterday afternoon. I hope and pray for the healing and speedy, full recovery of U.S. Forest Service Supervisory Forestry Technician Brendan Mullen, who was injured in the helicopter crash.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of New York returned an indictment yesterday against a Staten Island, New York, tax return preparer and business owner, charging him with 31 counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false federal income tax returns and three counts of filing false ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Robinson Health System Inc. has agreed to pay $10 million to settle claims that it violated the False Claims Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute and the Stark Statute by engaging in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the Justice Department announced today. Robinson is a nonprofit ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: The United States filed a complaint seeking to permanently bar a Detroit-area woman, her daughter, and the tax preparation businesses they operate from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Robert Bosch GmbH, the world’s largest independent parts supplier to the automotive industry, based in Gerlingen, Germany, has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $57.8 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for spark plugs, oxygen sensors and starter motors sold to automobile and internal combustion engine manufacturers in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has opened an investigation of Dallas County, Texas’s Truancy Court and Juvenile District Courts. The investigation will focus on whether the courts provide constitutionally required due process to all children charged with the criminal offense of failure ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: New Policy Limits Seizing Cash Deposited in a Way to Avoid Triggering Bank Reports to Most Serious Cases As part of the Department of Justice’s comprehensive, ongoing review of the asset forfeiture program, Attorney General Eric Holder today issued a policy focusing the use of asset forfeiture authorities ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: The former co-owner of R&J Partnership Ltd. doing business as Reece’s Las Vegas Supply (RLVS), a gambling supplies store located in Dayton, Ohio, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to operate an illegal gambling business and operating an illegal gambling business, conspiracy to defraud the United States ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: A Swiss citizen and former asset manager at a Swiss asset management firm pleaded guilty to conspiring with U.S. taxpayer-clients and others to help U.S. taxpayers hide millions of dollars in offshore accounts from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and to evade U.S. taxes on the income earned in those ...
By Fed Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today announced that they have permitted Wells Fargo and its subsidiary national banks to begin using the "advanced approaches" capital framework starting in the second quarter of 2015. Under this framework, firms must meet specific ...
