News from July 2016
By USDA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Made In Rural America Workshops to Help Overcome Export Hurdles WASHINGTON, July 14, 2016 - The White House Rural Council (WHRC), today announced a workshop series to provide targeted assistance for rural small businesses working to grow demand through international sales. The announcement was made by WHRC Chair Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Deputy Postmaster General Ronald A. Stroman.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Projects use telecommunications to bring medical expertise to rural areas, including substance misuse treatment WASHINGTON, July 14, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will fund 80 Distance Learning and Telemedicine (DLT) projects in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today it has reached an agreement with the Omaha Performing Arts Society (OPAS) resolving an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) complaint against the Orpheum Theater in Omaha, Nebraska.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that the restructuring of the $1.5 billion transaction between Tullett Prebon Group Ltd. (Tullett Prebon) and ICAP plc addresses the Department’s concerns that the transaction would violate Section 8 of the Clayton Act by creating an interlocking directorate. An interlocking directorate is where one person – or an agent of one person or company – sits on the board of directors of two competitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Preparer Who Allegedly Fabricated Business Losses, Claimed Fraudulent Credits and Misreported Self-Employment Income for Customers Ordered to Stop Preparing Returns According to a lawsuit the United States filed in April, a Birmingham, Alabama, tax return preparer continually and repeatedly prepared ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Former New Jersey Transportation Commissioner Also Charged in Bribery Scheme United Continental Holdings Inc. Agrees to Reforms, Will Pay $2.25 Million Penalty David Samson, 76, of Aiken, South Carolina, and the former chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: The heads of the antitrust agencies of the United States and Japan met today in Washington for their 35th Bilateral Competition Consultation. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Renata Hesse of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: A Jamaica, New York, resident pleaded guilty today in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: A Barrio Azteca (BA) gang member pleaded guilty today for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy, Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Richard L. Durbin Jr. of the Western District of Texas; Special Agent in Charge Douglas Lindquist of the FBI’s El Paso, Texas, Office; and Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) El Paso Field Division announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Two U.S. citizens and a Canadian citizen have pleaded guilty for their roles in a $9 million “sweepstakes fraud” scheme to defraud hundreds of U.S. residents, many of them elderly, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose of the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that a federal jury convicted the Chief of Police of Stevenson, Alabama, Daniel Winters, 56, of two counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law: one count for beating an arrestee, identified as D.F., and one count for failing to protect the victim from ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement regarding the attack in Nice, France: “I join the President in condemning what appears to be a horrific terrorist attack in Nice, France. My thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of those lost and wounded. The Department of Justice has reached out to our French counterparts to offer our assistance in the investigation.”
By Fed Newswire | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: Northpointe Bancshares, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan Written Agreement dated Jan. 21, 2009 Terminated July 12, 2016 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK – Thirty-one workers employed on the federally funded cobblestone reconstruction project on Manhattan’s Peck Slip will receive $431,715 in back wages and interest following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor.
By Labor Gazette | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez today issued the following statement in response to the introduction of the Overtime Reform and Enhancement Act. The proposed legislation would delay implementation of the department’s final rule updating overtime protections for millions of U.S. workers: ...
By Labor Gazette | Jul 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration is soliciting nominations to fill five, three-year vacancies on the Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans, also known as the ERISA Advisory Council. The deadline to submit nominations is Aug 1.
By State News Post | Jul 14, 2016
The US State Department published a two page notice on July 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jul 14, 2016
The US State Department published a one page notice on July 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jul 14, 2016
The US State Department published a one page notice on July 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jul 14, 2016
The US State Department published a one page notice on July 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
