News from September 2015
By EPA Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 7.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: Donita Urban, 46, and Brian Swartz, 48, from Waterloo, Iowa and Scott Mathews, 51, Daniela Castellanos, 28, Rogelio Avalos-Sanchez, 22, Jennifer Mares-Flores, 20, Miguel Mendoza, a/k/a “Loko," 23, Alvaro Hernandez, 30, Marcos Perez-Trevino, 45, Francis Gasca, 25, and Alejandro Becerra, a/k/a Juan Flores...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury convicted two doctors, Paramjit Singh Ajrawat, age 60, and his wife, Sukhveen Kaur Ajrawat, age 57, both of Potomac, Maryland, on charges related to their health care fraud scheme. Paramjit Singh Ajrawat was convicted of one count of health care fraud, two counts...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging Corey Krug, 40, of Buffalo, NY, with two additional counts of deprivation of rights under color of law. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years and a $250,000.
By State Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Wednesday, September 9, the Committee will convene a hearing to examine the Iran nuclear agreement. The hearing, entitled “Implications of a Nuclear Agreement with Iran (Part IV), " will begin at 10 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Indictment Charges Three People with Running $54 Million “Green Energy" Ponzi Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Twenty people indicted following agents and officers recovering more than 1,000 marijuana plants, a large number of firearms and more than $25,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Seventeen Count Indictment Details Scheme to Evade Taxes and Hide Millions of Dollars in Stolen Fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - St. Joseph Hospice Entities, which consists of 13 hospice facilities in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Alabama, and Patrick T. Mitchell, its majority owner and manager, have agreed to pay the United States $5,867,518 under the False Claims Act to resolve allegations that they submitted...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Six individuals were convicted in federal court this week for their role in a multi-state heroin trafficking operation, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, D.C. – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) today announced $10.4 million in cybersecurity Mobile Technology Security (MTS) research and development (R&D) awards to enhance the security of mobile devices for the federal government.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) awarded a contract to the University of Delaware to develop technology that will make it more difficult ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Schroder & Co. Bank AG has reached a resolution under the department’s Swiss Bank Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: An indictment was unsealed today charging three people in an investment scheme, involving a Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania-based company, that defrauded more than 300 investors from around the country. Troy Wragg, 34, a former resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Amanda Knorr, 32, of Hellertown, Pennsylvania, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Automotive parts supplier NGK Insulators Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $65.3 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for ceramic substrates for automotive catalytic converters supplied to automobile manufacturers. The company will also plead guilty ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the University of Nebraska at Kearney (UNK) and the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska have agreed to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought by the department. Under the proposed settlement, which must still be approved by the United States District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Sanofi Subsidiary Admits Unlawful Conduct and Agrees to Enhance its Compliance Program Genzyme Corporation, a wholly-owned biotechnology subsidiary of French pharmaceutical company Sanofi, agreed today to resolve criminal charges that it violated the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) with regard to the unlawful distribution of Seprafilm, a surgical device it markets and promotes, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Increased Privacy Protections and Higher Legal Standards to Be Required The Justice Department today announced a new policy for its use of cell-site simulators that will enhance transparency and accountability, improve training and supervision, establish a higher and more consistent legal standard and increase privacy protections in relation to law enforcement’s use of this critical technology.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: Two men were convicted today following a five-day jury trial in the District of Arizona for the sexual assault of a 17-year-old female in Landstuhl, Germany.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 3, 2015
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today announced that they have approved Bank of America and its subsidiary national banks to begin using the "advanced approaches" capital framework starting in the fourth quarter of 2015.
