News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: Raleigh - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever sentenced ANDREW STEPHEN LAZETERA, 28, of Cary to 240 months imprisonment followed by 15 years of supervised release.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a press conference today, U.S. Sens. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), David Vitter (R-La.), and Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman James Inhofe (R-Okla.), along with Bonnie Lautenberg, widow of the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and supporters of chemical safety reform, urged the Senate to act to pass a historic bill to reform the broken Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976 (TSCA).
By DOE Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee expressed concern following today’s decision by the European Union to invalidate the safe harbors agreement that allowed for unfettered data transfers between the United States and the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Mexican national pleaded guilty Monday to submitting false information when applying for a passport.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - A former employee of United Transport Tankcontainers Inc. (UTT) has been convicted of one count of wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Marcella Jones aka Marcella Jones-Hatch, 44, of Houston, pleaded guilty today, admitting she caused a loss of nearly $1.8 million to her former employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2015
News Release: Portland, Maine: Thomas E. Delahanty II, United States Attorney for the District of Maine, Janet T. Mills, Maine Attorney General, and John E. Morris, Maine Commissioner for the Department of Public Safety, will host a press conference to discuss the new Anti-Heroin Opiate Initiative on Thursday, October 8, 2015 at 11:15 a.m. at the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Munjoy Hill Conference Room, 7th Floor, 100 Middle Street, Portland.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - The owner and operator of Elite P. Care Medical Services has been convicted of conspiracy to commit health care fraud and health care fraud in a $1 million fraud scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Verona Spicer, 46, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) introduced legislation to improve fraud prevention efforts across the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HAI T. LE, 44, of West Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 10 days of imprisonment and three years of supervised release for filing false tax returns. Judge Meyer also ordered LE to perform 240 hours of community service and pay full restitution to the U.S. Treasury.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement on the close of negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement between the United States and 11 other Pacific nations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Nathan Baum, age 30, of East Greenbush, New York, was indicted on Sept. 30, 2015 for tampering with a consumer product and obtaining controlled substances by deception and subterfuge, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian; Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey G. Hughes...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Last week after returning from the United Nations, President Obama commended the United States Secret Service for its extraordinary work providing security for the United Nations General Assembly and the visit by Pope Francis to the United States.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Editor's Note: This release was corrected on Oct. 6, 2015, changing the location of a $3.6 million USDA Agricultural Research Service grant from Peoria, IL to Wooster, Ohio. While the grant was applied for through the Illinois ARS facility, the actual work and funding dollars will be implemented at the ARS facility in Wooster, Ohio.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 2015 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today made the following statement following the successful conclusion of negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: "An agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations provides a more level playing field in trade for American ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Civil Rights Division, and Acting U.S. Attorney Kelly T. Currie of the Eastern District of New York, today announced the filing of a consent judgment and order in U.S. v. Sayville Development, et al. to settle alleged violations of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has reached a settlement that resolves allegations that the owners and managers of a continuing care retirement community known as Sedgebrook violated the Fair Housing Act by instituting policies and maintaining practices that discriminated against residents with disabilities at the facility, which is located in Lincolnshire, Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Total Value of Global Settlement Will Top $20 Billion Largest with a Single Entity in Justice Department History Assures Continued Restoration of the Gulf Coast The United States today joins the five Gulf states in announcing a settlement to resolve civil claims against BP arising from the Apr. 20, 2010 Macondo well blowout and the massive oil spill that followed in the Gulf of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Today, in a press conference held at the Department of Justice, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch reinforced the need for national, consistent data on law enforcement interactions with the communities they serve, especially data collection on the use-of-force. The Attorney General noted that the department has already taken steps to improve the accuracy and consistency of use-of-force data from law enforcement.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced that the public comment period has been extended through Oct. 30, 2015, on the application by Goldman Sachs Bank USA, New York, New York, to assume certain liabilities and acquire certain assets of GE Capital Bank, Holladay, Utah, under section 18(c) of ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 5, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker delivered remarks at the announcement of the resolution of federal and state claims against BP for the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, and the restoration of natural resources in the Gulf of Mexico. During her remarks, Secretary Pritzker emphasized the Administration’s unwavering commitment to securing justice for the Gulf communities and spurring economic growth across the Gulf states.
