News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office is nearing completion of a review of hotels in and around New Haven to determine if they are being operated in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that Gary Brian Adams, 35, of Logan, West Virginia pleaded guilty today in federal court in Charleston to being a convicted felon in possession of three firearms. In May of 2013, officers with the West Virginia State Police and the Logan...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Barbara Phillips, 66, of Franklin, Maine, pled guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court to theft of public money.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A California man pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Kansas to operating an Internet fraud scheme that cost more than 200 victims a total of more than $1.6 million, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By USDA Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: Producers May Need to Take Action to Remain Eligible for Crop Insurance Premium Support WASHINGTON, May 21, 2015 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reminds farmers to file a Highly Erodible Land Conservation and Wetland Conservation Certification form (AD-1026) with their local USDA Service Center by June 1, 2015. The 2014 Farm Bill requires producers to have the form on file in order to remain eligible, or to become eligible for crop insurance premium support.
By USDA Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 21, 2015 – Today, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Deputy Secretary-General Mari Kiviniemi released a joint statement outlining three major themes guiding rural economic development policies.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: A Midvale, Utah, man and a Henderson, Nevada, woman were sentenced yesterday in the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City for tax crimes, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Carlie Christensen of the District of Utah. ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: A sergeant with the U.S. Army was sentenced today to 51 months in prison for accepting bribes from Afghan truck drivers at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Gardez in Afghanistan, in exchange for allowing the drivers to take thousands of gallons of fuel from the base for resale on the black market, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Michael J. Moore of the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: A Detroit federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against two executives of a Japanese automotive parts manufacturer for their participation in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids of automotive parts, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian of the Northern District of New York announced today the distribution to numerous law enforcement agencies of over $9.6 million of forfeited assets seized during a multi-agency investigation of an international Internet gambling operation. Joining U.S. Attorney Hartunian ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: Today, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division announced that it has completed its investigation of the Hinds County Adult Detention Center and the Jackson City Detention Center and issued a letter of findings that determined that Hinds County, Mississippi, violates prisoners’ constitutional rights ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury in San Juan, Puerto Rico, returned an indictment against five individuals for participating in bid rigging and fraud conspiracies at an auction for public school bus transportation contracts in Puerto Rico’s Caguas municipality, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: The heads of the antitrust agencies of the United States, Canada and Mexico met today in Mexico City to discuss their ongoing work to ensure effective antitrust enforcement cooperation in our increasingly interconnected markets.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: Today the Department of Justice proposed legislation that would require states or localities whose territory includes part or all of an Indian reservation, an Alaska Native village, or other tribal lands to locate at least one polling place in a venue selected by the tribal government. “The Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: The former assistant administrator of Riverside General Hospital was sentenced today to 40 years in prison for his role in a $116 million Medicare fraud scheme. To date, 10 individuals have pleaded guilty or been convicted for their involvement in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: A federal court has barred a Doral, Florida, man and his businesses from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: Defendant Also Ordered to Forfeit More Than $1.28 Million A California man was sentenced to 13 months in prison today for his operation of the myRedBook.com website to facilitate prostitution. This represents the first federal conviction of a website operator for facilitation of prostitution.
By Fed Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday proposed adding certain general obligation state and municipal bonds to the range of assets a banking organization may use to satisfy regulatory requirements designed to ensure that large banking organizations have the capacity to meet their liquidity needs during a period of financial stress.
By Fed Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: On May 21, 2015, the Federal Reserve conducted a floating-rate offering of term deposits through its Term Deposit Facility. The operation offered 14-day term deposits with the rate set equal to the sum of the interest rate paid on excess reserves plus a fixed spread of 1 basis point.
By Fed Newswire | May 21, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday requested comment on enhancements that the Federal Reserve Banks are considering to their current same-day automated clearing house (ACH) service in order to correspond to recently adopted amendments to NACHA's ACH operating rules.
