News published on Federal Newswire in January 2016

News from January 2016


News Release: Defendant Failed to Report More Than $6 Million in Gross Receipts A Subway franchisee and resident of Alexandria, Virginia pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente for the Eastern District of Virginia.


News Release: Department’s Swiss Bank Program Imposed More Than $1.3 Billion in Penalties on 80 Banks, Which Continue to Cooperate with the Department The Department of Justice announced today that it reached its final non-prosecution agreement under Category 2 of the Swiss Bank Program, with HSZH Verwaltungs AG (HSZH). ...


News Release: Ardit Ferizi, 20, a citizen of Kosovo, made his initial appearance this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan D. Davis of the Eastern District of Virginia on charges alleging that he provided material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, ...


News Release: The Justice Department announced today that a grand jury in the Northern District of Alabama charged the Chief of Police of Stevenson, Alabama, Daniel Winters, 55, with two counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law.


News Release: Mo Hailong, aka Robert Mo, 46, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to steal trade secrets before U.S. District Judge Stephanie M. Rose of the Southern District of Iowa, announced Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin and Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel of the Southern ...


News Release: A federal court has ordered a San Diego, California provider of collection services to pay its payroll taxes as they become due, the Justice Department announced today. Judge Larry Alan Burns of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California entered a permanent injunction requiring Prolien Services LLC and its owner, Albert F. Quintrall, to pay Prolien’s federal payroll tax liabilities as they become due and owing.


News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch spent the day in New Orleans participating in a roundtable on human trafficking with U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana Kenneth A. Polite; attending a roll call meeting with the New Orleans Police Department; and meeting with the family of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana Sheriff's Deputy Steven Arnold, who is being treated for injuries sustained in yesterday’s shooting.


Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement

News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in December suggests that labor market conditions improved further even as economic growth slowed late last year. Household spending and business fixed investment have been increasing at moderate rates in recent months, and the housing ...


Federal Open Market Committee reaffirms its "Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy"

News Release: As part of its annual organizational meeting actions, the Federal Open Market Committee reaffirmed its "Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy," with a revision to clarify that it views its inflation objective as symmetric, and with an updated reference to participants' estimates of the longer-run normal unemployment rate in the most recent Summary of Economic Projections (December 2015).


News Release: KIGALI, Rwanda – U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today made the following statement about her visit to Rwanda, which is taking place from January 27-28, 2016.


Worker deglazing bathtub in public housing complex died of acute exposure  to methylene chloride, a toxic chemical found in paint stripper

News Release: CLEVELAND, Ohio ‒ The death of a 30-year-old worker from acute methylene chloride exposure could have been avoided if his employer had protected him properly from dangerous exposure to the toxin in the paint remover he used to deglaze a bathtub in a Cuyahoga County public housing complex, federal investigators determined.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Jan. 27, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.