News from February 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a New Haven, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for attempting to entice a minor under the age of 17 (actually an undercover law enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court yesterday Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, sentenced CLAUDE KING, 42, of Wilson, North Carolina, to 171 months’ imprisonment followed by 5 years’ supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned two indictments today charging two individuals with drug trafficking offenses and one with an additional firearms charge, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: A one-count indictment was filed charging Christopher Allen Figueroa, 33, of Louisville, Ohio, with possessing child pornography, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is the U.S. Government’s lead for efforts to respond to the Zika virus. As the White House announced on Monday , the President is also seeking more than $1.8 billion in supplemental funding from Congress to address the virus and our government’s response efforts.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Deadline to Submit Offers for Competitive Enrollment is Feb. 26 WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is reminding farmers and ranchers that the competitive sign-up deadline for its most popular voluntary conservation program, the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), is ...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 11, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the selection of Dr. Warren Preston as U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Deputy Chief Economist, effective February 21. He has served as senior economist for agricultural policy in the Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) since August 2015, after serving as USDA's acting Deputy Chief Economist beginning in February 2015. He joined USDA in 1992.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that Morgan Stanley will pay a $2.6 billion penalty to resolve claims related to Morgan Stanley’s marketing, sale and issuance of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). This settlement constitutes the largest component of the set of resolutions with Morgan ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: A Forrest Lake, Minnesota, man was sentenced today for failing to disclose, during his immigration to the United States, multiple crimes committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina before and during the Bosnian Conflict in the 1990s, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger of the District of Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Richard Wyatt, 52, of Evergreen, Colorado, surrendered to authorities today on charges of conspiracy, dealing in firearms without a license and tax related charges, U.S. Attorney John Walsh for the District of Colorado, Special Agent in Charge Stephen Boyd for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) – Criminal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Five Co-Defendants Expected to Go to Trial in May 2016 Abdirizak Mohamed Warsame, 20, of Egan, Minnesota, pleaded guilty today to an information charging him with conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. The defendant pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge Michael J. Davis of the District of Minnesota.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Americans Helping America Chamber of Commerce Promised Citizenship to Members of Its “Migration Program” for a Price Helaman Hansen, 63, of Elk Grove, California, was arrested today after a federal grand jury returned a 13-count indictment charging him with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement regarding yesterday’s fatal shooting of Harford County, Maryland Senior Sheriff’s Deputies Mark Logsdon and Patrick Dailey: “I am deeply saddened by the shooting in Harford County, Maryland, that took the lives of two long-serving sheriff’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: Today, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch met with representatives from the Major County Sheriffs’ Association (MCSA) at their Winter Meeting at the JW Marriott Hotel, in Washington, D.C. The meeting began with a moment of silence led by Sandra Hutchens, President of the MCSA, in honor of law enforcement ...
By Fed Newswire | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the repeal of one regulation and a proposal to repeal a second in order to comply with statutory provisions that transferred certain consumer protection rulewriting authority to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
By Labor Gazette | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: HORTONVILLE, Wis. – A Wisconsin industrial cleaning contractor failed to pay workers for all their time spent loading trucks and driving to job sites, resulting in violations of the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division , Mid Valley Industrial Services Inc. will pay a total of $104,421 in back wages to 56 workers.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: SALINA, Kan. – A leading supplier of frozen specialty foods is facing more than $172,000 in fines after two workers at its Salina facility suffered amputation s in separate incidents and a third suffered lacerations and burns.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Bureau of International Labor Affairs' new mobile application, “Sweat & Toil: Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking Around the World,” is now available to download for devices using the Android operation system from Google Play.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 11, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Feb. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 11, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Feb. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
