News from September 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Warren Purvis, age 24, of Timber Lake, South Dakota, was found guilty of Simple Assault as a result of a court trial in Pierre, South Dakota.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), Ranking Member Sandy Levin (D-MI), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter yesterday to President Obama outlining concerns over the direction of the U.S.-China economic relationship and how China conducts its economic and trade policies. The letter was sent in anticipation of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s upcoming visit to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that STEVEN STALTARE was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 77 months in prison for defrauding investors in connection with two fraudulent investment schemes. STALTARE’s first scheme involved fraud in...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2061, the Equitable Access to Care and Health (EACH) Act, introduced by Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) to expand the religious-liberty exemption to Obamacare’s individual mandate. Upon passage, House Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON — Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas today met with the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) where he discussed a range of homeland security-related issues and swore in the three newest members to HSAC.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: PINE RIDGE, S.D., Sept. 29, 2015 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today awarded nearly $20 million through 385 grants to help support the start-up or expansion of rural small businesses.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: PINE RIDGE INDIAN RESERVATION, S.D., Sept. 29, 2015 - Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack awarded $2.6 million in grants for seven projects to support economic development and improve the economy on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: A Kenyan child pornography producer was sentenced late yesterday to life in prison for participating in the Dreamboard child sexual exploitation website, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley of the Western District of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Officers Charged with Racketeering, Robbery, Extortion, Firearm, Narcotics, Civil Rights and Theft Charges Ten Puerto Rico police officers have been indicted for their alleged participation in a criminal organization, run out of the police department, that used their affiliation with law enforcement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: In her first address at the United Nations General Assembly, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch will join other leaders from around the world to launch the Strong Cities Network to combat violent extremism.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department filed today a lawsuit against a public elementary school for refusing to permit a student with disabilities to attend school with a service dog unless accompanied by a separate handler provided by the student’s family. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Rochester, New ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a settlement with Guardian Industries Corp. that will resolve alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at Guardian’s flat glass manufacturing facilities throughout the United States. Under the proposed settlement, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced that Wyeth Holdings LLC, a subsidiary of the Pfizer Corporation, will perform nearly $194 million worth of cleanup work at the American Cyanamid Superfund Site in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey. The cleanup work ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department filed a consent order today to resolve allegations that Eagle Bank and Trust Company (Eagle Bank) engaged in a pattern or practice of “redlining” predominantly African-American neighborhoods in and around St. Louis. “Redlining” is the discriminatory practice by banks or other financial ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it will require Cox Automotive Inc., a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises Inc., to divest Dealertrack Technologies Inc.’s automobile dealership full-featured inventory management solution (IMS) business in order for Cox to acquire Dealertrack through an approximately ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: A resident of Hammond, Louisiana, was sentenced to more than six years in prison for his involvement in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme, 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 announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: One current and three former U.S. Army soldiers were sentenced today in federal court in Raleigh, North Carolina, for their involvement in a bribery scheme in Afghanistan that resulted in the theft of fuel valued at more than $10 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: Two Tennessee men were each sentenced to 28 years in prison for killing during a home invasion robbery, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David Rivera of the Middle District of Tennessee. Michael Massey, 26, of Lexington, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The owner of an Orlando health care clinic was sentenced today to five years in prison for engaging in a $2.4 million health care fraud scheme.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 29, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: Carver Bancorp, Inc., New York, New York Order to Cease and Desisted issued by the Office of Thrift Supervision dated February 7, 2011 Terminated Sept. 24, 2015 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
