News published on Federal Newswire in September 2015

By EPA Newswire | Sep 10, 2015

News Release: Committee to Review Legislation to Bolster Enforcement of Born-Alive Infants Protection Act and Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2015

News Release: Remarks of Rep. Elijah E. Cummings

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015

News Release: U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division today announced the guilty plea of a Minnesota National Guardsman to inducing a 14-year-old girl to create and send to him sexually explicit photos over the Internet while he was deployed to Afghanistan.

By Homeland Newswire | Sep 10, 2015

News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today issued the following statement on Speaker Boehner’s refusal to rule out adding language on the JCPOA to an upcoming Continuing Resolution.

By DOE Newswire | Sep 10, 2015

News Release: Committee to Review Legislation to Bolster Enforcement of Born-Alive Infants Protection Act and Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2015

News Release: A Gates Mills man was charged today for his role in a penny-stock fraud from which he illegally received more than $7 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: Defendant Charged With Stealing Identity of New York Mets COO Jeffrey Wilpon.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that STEVEN KAITZ, LATCHMEE MAHATO, a/k/a “Robbie," and JONATHAN WHEELER, the three owners and principals of Projuban, LLC, d/b/a G3K Displays, Inc., and related entities (“G3K") - a New Jersey-based company...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Damon Hunter, 25, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to false declarations before grand jury, before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The prison sentence may be imposed consecutively to a seven-year New York State term of incarceration that Hunter is currently serving for firearm possession.

By USDA Newswire | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 9, 2015 — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today issued the following statement on the release of the USDA Economic Research Service analysis Household Food Security in the United States in 2014 : "Today's report is a positive signal that reflects a recovering and growing economy. ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: Defendant is the Second of Nine Co-Conspirators to Plead Guilty Hanad Mustofe Musse, 19, of Minneapolis, pleaded guilty today to conspiring with at least eight other individuals to travel to Syria in an effort to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: A Bergen County, New Jersey, man pleaded guilty today to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: Linda Weston, 55, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to all charges in a racketeering and hate crimes case that involved holding disabled adults captive in locked closets, basements and attics in Philadelphia’s Tacony section and in other states. Weston pleaded guilty to racketeering ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch announced today the appointment of U.S. Attorney Deborah R. Gilg of the District of Nebraska to the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC), effective Sept. 4, 2015: “The Attorney General’s Advisory Committee plays a crucial role in shaping the Justice Department’s ...

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: Alexander Fishenko, 49, of Houston, and a dual citizen of the United States and Russia, pleaded guilty today to acting as an agent of the Russian government within the United States without prior notification to the Attorney General, conspiring to export and illegally exporting controlled microelectronics to Russia, conspiring to launder money and obstruction of justice.

By DOJ Newswire | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: Company’s Executive Vice President Pleads Guilty to Obstruction of an Agency Investigation The owner and president of a dietary supplement manufacturing company in Flanders, New Jersey, was sentenced to prison today for the sale of diluted and adulterated dietary ingredients and supplements, the Department ...

By Commerce News Now | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: During the White House Apprenticeship Summit yesterday, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced the first-ever effort to document the return on investment for U.S. employers using registered apprenticeships. The Joyce Foundation, JPMorgan Chase, and the Annie E. Casey Foundation will support a partnership between Case Western Reserve University and the Department of Commerce’s Economics and Statistics Administration to conduct the study across multiple sectors.

By Commerce News Now | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced the five winners of the Department’s 2015 Market Development Cooperator Program (MDCP) award. The Auto Care Association, Evergreen Building Products Association, the National Center for Healthcare Leadership, NPES: The Association for Suppliers ...

By Labor Gazette | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: SALT LAKE CITY — For most children, fall begins a new school year full of possibilities to learn and prepare for their lives ahead and future jobs. Unfortunately, for hundreds of children in southern Utah and northern Arizona, the season is a time for hard work harvesting pecans by hand for commercial sale.

By Labor Gazette | Sep 9, 2015

News Release: BOSTON — Fruit and vegetable wholesaler Snipped Fresh Produce Inc. had employees cut, weigh and package vegetables for $8 per hour, and many worked more than 40 hours per week for no overtime pay.