News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Lamarion Shanes, 33, from East St. Louis, pled guilty to two counts of making a false claim for a federal tax refund in submitting a false federal income tax return, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Shanes faces a prison sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that it has awarded more than $2 billion in compassionate compensation to eligible claimants under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Dr. Daniel P. Schecter, a dentist who provided services in Rockport, Maine, has paid $484,744.80 to settle claims involving improper billing to MaineCare (Maine’s Medicaid program).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - Owners of a green tech startup company that installed and maintained charging stations for plug-in electric vehicles were indicted yesterday for allegedly engaging in a scheme to fraudulently obtain federal and state grant funds, from the City of Chicago, the State of Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, and two California entities: the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, and the Association of Bay Area Governments.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - When an employee raises concerns about the dangers of asbestos in a school, you would expect them to be commended and not terminated. After questioning whether the timeline of a construction project at a school in Idaho Falls School District 91 allowed for safe removal of asbestos, a district employee was out of a job. Now, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has stepped in to protect that worker's rights.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Yesterday the House voted to enact a clean, full-year appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security. The Senate did the same last Friday.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On March 8, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson will travel to Selma, Ala. to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of “Bloody Sunday,” the Selma-to-Montgomery March, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. While in Selma, Secretary Johnson will ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: University of Connecticut's Rudd Center Research Provides Even More Evidence Updated Meal Standards Are Working WASHINGTON, March 4, 2015 – A new study from the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at the University of Connecticut shows that children are eating healthier food at school and discarding less food since updated healthy school meal standards took effect in 2012.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 4, 2015 – Leaders from six state agriculture departments and 21 U.S. agribusinesses and organizations will accompany U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Under Secretary Michael Scuse on a trade mission to Southeast Asia from March 9 to March 13 to expand export opportunities for U.S. food and agricultural products in one of the world's fastest-growing markets.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: A New York jeweler pleaded guilty in federal court in Atlanta yesterday to two counts of interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with jewelry he purchased from an armed robbery ring and then sold in New York. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney John A. Horn of the Northern District of Georgia made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Finds a Pattern of Civil Rights Violations by the Ferguson Police Department The Justice Department announced the findings of its two civil rights investigations related to Ferguson, Missouri, today. The Justice Department found that the Ferguson Police Department (FPD) engaged in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Scheme Victimized More Than 1,000 Individuals throughout the United States The Justice Department announced today the unsealing of an indictment charging seven individuals in connection with a vending machine “business opportunity” that defrauded thousands of victims across the country. The indictment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice has reached a settlement of its civil forfeiture cases against $1.2 million in assets in the United States traceable to corruption proceeds accumulated by Chun Doo Hwan, the former president of the Republic of Korea. The department also assisted the government of the Republic ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Defendant and Co-Plotters Came Within Days of Bombing a U.K. Shopping Mall U.S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch of the Eastern District of New York, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, Assistant Director in Charge Diego G. Rodriguez of the FBI’s New York Field Office and Commissioner ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Two Connecticut-area men were sentenced to federal prison today for their roles in a bribery scheme to obtain confidential, internal law enforcement documents and information from a former FBI Special Agent in White Plains, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: A former general manager of the Platinum Creek Mine in Platinum, Alaska, pleaded guilty today to three felony violations of the federal Clean Water Act, announced Assistant Attorney General John C. Cruden for the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler of the District of Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, Acting U.S. Attorney Stephanie Yonekura of the Central District of California and Assistant Director in Charge David Bowdich of the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office announced today that an Orange County, California, man who attempted to travel ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: A Corona, California, woman was sentenced today in the U.S. District Court in the District of Maryland to serve two years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release after pleading guilty to one count of tax evasion, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: Defendant Engaged in Conspiracy to Use Threats, Violence and Coercion to Compel Women into Prostitution in New Orleans and Elsewhere Today, Laquentin Brown, aka “Nino,” 32, originally of Memphis, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to conspiring to engage in sex trafficking of adult victims in New Orleans and ...
By Commerce News Now | Mar 4, 2015
News Release: New Report Highlights 1.8 Million Increase in Jobs Supported by Exports Since 2009 U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today issued a report showing that U.S. goods and services exports supported more than 11.7 million jobs in 2014 – a new record. The number of export-related positions is up 1.8 ...
