News from November 2015

By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Landon Albritton, age 20, of Terry, Mississippi, has been charged in a federal indictment with knowingly aiming the beam of a laser pointer at an aircraft or its flight path in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and Special Agent in Charge Donald Alway with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi.

By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: New Economic Opportunities Created for Businesses and Residents WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 2015 – USDA Rural Utilities Service Administrator Brandon McBride today announced that nearly six million Americans who live and work in rural areas now have access to new or improved high-speed internet service, thanks to USDA funding provided in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

By USDA Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Secretary Vilsack will travel to Japan and China this week, to meet with agricultural counterparts. The United States recently concluded negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with Japan and 10 other nations. Countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership currently account for up to 42 percent ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: A former executive of a large Taiwan-based color display tube (CDT) manufacturing company pleaded guilty late yesterday for his participation in a global conspiracy to fix prices of CDTs, a type of cathode ray tube (CRT) used in computer monitors and other specialized applications.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The office manager of a home health company at the center of a $50 million fraud scheme in New Orleans was sentenced to prison today for participating in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The government announced today that it has joined a lawsuit alleging that Inchcape Shipping Services Holdings Limited and certain of its subsidiaries (collectively, Inchcape) violated the False Claims Act by knowingly overbilling the U.S. Navy for ship husbanding services from years 2005 to 2014. Inchcape is a marine services contractor headquartered in the United Kingdom.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Portland, Oregon, returned an indictment yesterday charging a resident of Lake Oswego, Oregon, with 10 counts of willfully failing to collect, truthfully account for and pay over federal employment taxes to the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: A former lieutenant with the Carroll County, Tennessee, Sheriff’s Office has pleaded guilty to a civil rights violation for using a taser on a restrained pre-trial detainee, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III of the Western District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: Two owners of a Metairie, Louisiana, business each pleaded guilty to one count of willfully filing false 2011 income tax returns today, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite of the Eastern District of Louisiana.

By Fed Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Open Market Committee on Wednesday released the attached minutes of the Committee meeting held on October 27-28, 2015.

By Fed Newswire | Nov 18, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the application by Community Bank System, Inc., DeWitt, New York, to acquire Oneida Financial Corp., and thereby indirectly acquire Oneida Savings Bank, both of Oneida, New York, and State Bank of Chittenango, Chittenango, New York.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 18, 2015
The US Transportation Department published a five page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 18, 2015
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 18, 2015
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 18, 2015
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 18, 2015
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Nov 18, 2015
The US State Department published a two page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 18, 2015
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 18, 2015
The US Transportation Department published a four page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 18, 2015
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.