News from September 2015
By EPA Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has rescheduled a hearing for Tuesday, Sept. 29, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “ACA Overdue Checkup: Examining the ACA’s State Insurance Marketplaces." ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Eight Members of Violent Detroit Street Gang Charged with Rico and Firearms Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Also Admits Role in Fraudulent $20,000 Home Rehabilitation Loan Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: Evonne Hodges, 35, of Darby, PA, was charged today by indictment with maintaining a drug-involved premises, announced U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger. According to the indictment, between Oct. 1, 2012 and May 24, 2013, Hodges managed and controlled rooms, as a lessee, in a residence in Darby, PA, and made those rooms available for the purpose of unlawfully storing and distributing marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Monique Maurice Martinez, 35, of Carlsbad, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 84 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for her methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lafayette man pleaded guilty last week to firing a gun at a postal worker.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) will award $27 million to organizations in nine states to operate centers that help manufacturers innovate, compete and grow. The new awards are part of a multiyear effort to update funding for the Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP), which provides a wide range of services to small and medium-size manufacturers through centers in every state and Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: WICHITA KAN. - A Wichita man pleaded guilty Monday to a bank robbery that ended when he rolled his car in a residential neighborhood, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) funding awards, including a $1,838,023 award to the Virgin Islands Police Department for 15 additional law enforcement positions. Over $107 million will be awarded nationally, through the COPS Hiring Program (CHP).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: Octavio Lombardo, a/k/a “Otto Lombardo," Admits to Defrauding More Than Thirty Small Business Owners.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that MATTHEW DRAGONE, 31, of Middletown, has been charged by federal criminal complaint with the robbery of the Liberty Bank in Durham earlier this month. DRAGONE also is a suspect is five other recent Connecticut bank robberies and one attempted bank robbery.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: SAULT SAINTE MARIE, Mich. - As crane operators at Michigan's historic Soo Locks operated a lattice boom crawler and a barge-mounted crane in disrepair, they faced dangers from multi-ton loads because their employer ignored a September 2014 report from a crane inspection contractor that demanded immediate equipment repairs.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announced today that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through the General Services Administration (GSA), has awarded three orders under the Department’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program (CDM) , making CDM tools and services available to 17 additional Federal agencies. DHS has now made CDM available to 97 percent of the federal civilian government.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today announced a $5.6 million settlement with Bayer CropScience LP to resolve violations of federal chemical accident prevention laws at its facility in Institute, West Virginia, where an explosion killed two people in 2008. Under ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: As part of President Obama’s commitment to building trust and transparency between law enforcement and the communities they serve, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today announced that the Justice Department has awarded grants totaling more than $23.2 million to 73 local and tribal agencies in 32 states ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: Adventist Health System has agreed to pay the United States $115 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by maintaining improper compensation arrangements with referring physicians and by miscoding claims, the Justice Department announced today. Adventist is a non-profit healthcare ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: Two former officials of and one broker for the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) were sentenced to prison today in Albany, Georgia, for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud their customers by shipping salmonella-positive peanut products before the results of microbiological testing were received ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: Hiring Grants Will Aim to Create, Retain 866 Law Enforcement Officers Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today announced more than $107 million in grant funding through the Department of Justice’s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office) COPS Hiring Program (CHP). The Attorney General announced funding awards to nearly 200 law enforcement agencies across the nation, aimed at creating, and in some cases protecting, 866 law enforcement positions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: A Brooklyn, New York, tax return preparer pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to two counts of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 21, 2015
News Release: IACP Awarded $500,000 to Host a Youth-Police Roundtable and Best Practices Institute Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today announced that the Justice Department is launching a new initiative to bring young people together with the police officers in their community.
