News from March 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 31, 2015
News Release: Brady Applauds Passage of Medicare Payment Fix.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This morning in federal court, Benson Pete, 74, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Gamerco, N.M., pled guilty to a felony information charging him with making a false statement to a law enforcement agency. Under the terms of a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Pete will be sentenced to a range of 12 to 33 months in federal prison followed by a period of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAYQUAN JACKSON, also known as “Quan" and “DaeDae," 27, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 55 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating a mail fraud and bank fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: A multiagency operation was recently concluded that returned two herds of endangered bighorn sheep to locations in Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon National Parks, Inyo National Forest, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, worked together on the complex operation in the Sierra Nevada.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On March 31, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas will travel to North Dakota where he will join U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp to visit U.S. Customs and Border Protection operations, tour a public safety training facility ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Working Lands for Wildlife Boasts New Practices, Greater Predictability for Landowners in Six Western States WASHINGTON, March 30, 2015 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) today unveiled an ecosystem-wide model ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Infrastructure investments will help create jobs, expand rural manufacturing WASHINGTON, March 30, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the award of $31 million in loans and grants for organizations in 12 states to promote rural economic development.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against L.A. Star Seafood Company Inc. of Los Angeles and its corporate officers Sima Goldring and Sam Goldring to prevent the distribution of adulterated seafood products, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder announced today the appointment of U.S. Attorney Michael Cotter for the District of Montana and U.S. Attorney Damon P. Martinez for the District of New Mexico as the chair and vice-chair, respectively, of the Native American Issues Subcommittee (NAIS) of the Attorney General’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that BSI SA, one of the 10 largest private banks in Switzerland, is the first bank to reach a resolution under the Department of Justice’s Swiss Bank Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Agents Were Part of Baltimore’s Silk Road Task Force Two former federal agents have been charged with wire fraud, money laundering and related offenses for stealing digital currency during their investigation of the Silk Road, an underground black market that allowed users to conduct illegal transactions over the Internet. The charges are contained in a federal criminal complaint issued on Mar. 25, 2015, in the Northern District of California and unsealed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury in Oxford, Mississippi, returned a one-count indictment charging former Tate County Sheriff’s Deputy Randy T. Doss, 62, with unlawfully assaulting J.W., a pre-trial detainee at the Tate County Jail, with a dangerous weapon on Jan. 27, 2011. The indictment charges that Doss’s actions resulted in bodily injury to the victim, J.W.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: A Raleigh, North Carolina, man pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court in Raleigh to conspiring to file false claims for tax refunds, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Thomas G. Walker of the Eastern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today the filing of a lawsuit against Southeastern Oklahoma State University (Southeastern) and the Regional University System of Oklahoma (RUSO) for violating Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by discriminating against a transgender employee on the basis of her ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Defendant is Accused of Operating a Rogue Internet Pharmacy, Generating about $8.3 Million in Illegal Proceeds A man who owned a pharmacy in Washington, D.C., has been arrested following his indictment on federal charges that he and a physician from Florida operated an Internet pharmacy site that illegally ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York announced that Haroon Aswat pleaded guilty in the Southern District of New York to terrorism charges related to Aswat’s efforts to establish a terrorist training camp in the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Co-Conspirators Sentenced to 24 Months and 13 Months in Prison for Their Roles A former FBI special agent was sentenced today to 10 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $70,000 for soliciting and accepting bribes to obstruct a federal grand jury investigation into an alleged kickback scheme involving ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: Attached is a brief for the federal government filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in State of Texas, et al. v. United States of America, et al.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today delivered keynote remarks on the state of the economy, the importance of trade and exports to America’s economic growth, and President Obama’s new Cuba policy at a forum in Tampa, Florida, hosted by Congresswoman Kathy Castor, the Greater Tampa Chamber of Commerce, and the Tampa International Airport.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today visited the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Fla., where she toured the university’s Maker Space Labs and joined Sen. Bill Nelson to announce the first round awards of the Regional Innovation Strategies Program.
