News from June 2016
By Interior Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Oyster Bay, NY- Join us on Sunday, June 26 at 6:00PM in honor of the National Park Service's 100th birthday. Sagamore Hill will present a classical jubilee of favorite instrumental and vocal selections from the very talented young musicians of the Oyster Bay Music Festival. The concert will feature a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on June 7, 2016, a federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment against Jeremy M. Peters (age: 29) of Keshena, Wisconsin, charging him with a count of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt sentenced TAUREAN RAHSAAN DAVIS, 27, of Dunn to 77 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), and Finance Committee member Richard Burr (R-N.C.) today highlighted a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) detailing inefficiencies with the Medicare Audit and Appeals process...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that yesterday, James D. Litchfield, 59, owner of Big Jim’s Autorama in Madison, IL, and his brother, Ryan P. Litchfield, 37, of O’Fallon, MO, were both sentenced to prison for their participation in a large stolen property ring. James Litchfield was sentenced to 3 years in prison, while Ryan Litchfield was sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: In a criminal complaint unsealed in the Eastern District of Virginia today, Mohamad Jamal Khweis, 26, of Alexandria, Virginia, was charged with providing and conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Justice today announced an agreement with Ohio-based Marathon Petroleum Company that will reduce air pollution from the company’s petroleum refineries in Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan and Ohio. Marathon will spend $319 million ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Anticompetitive Restrictions Bar Insurers from Steering Patients to Lower-Cost Competing Providers The Department of Justice today filed a civil antitrust lawsuit against Carolinas HealthCare System (CHS), challenging CHS’s practice of imposing steering restrictions in its contracts with commercial health insurers in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department reached an agreement today with the city of Milwaukee to improve access to all aspects of civic life for persons with disabilities. The agreement was reached under Project Civic Access (PCA), the department’s wide-ranging initiative to ensure that cities, towns and counties throughout the country comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: A Miami man was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for his role in a scheme to defraud two commercial lenders and the Export-Import Bank of the United States (EXIM Bank) out of more than $11 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley of the Western District of Louisiana announced today that Iberia Parish, Louisiana, Sheriff Louis Ackal, Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Savoy and former Captain Mark Frederick were charged today in a superseding indictment with civil rights violations arising out of the beatings of two men.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: Wenxia Man, aka Wency Man, 45, of San Diego, was convicted today by a federal jury in the Southern District of Florida of conspiring to export and cause the export of fighter jet engines, an unmanned aerial vehicle – commonly known as a drone – and related technical data to the People’s Republic of China, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: A former agent and a former driver for a large national trucking company were sentenced prison for paying bribes to officials at the Marine Corps Logistics Base (MCLB) in Albany, Georgia, in order to obtain lucrative freight-hauling business, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman III of the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Navy Rear Admiral Robert Gilbeau pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges that he lied to federal investigators to conceal his illicit years-long relationship with Leonard Glenn Francis, owner of Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), the foreign defense contractor at the center of a massive bribery and fraud scandal.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: First State Bank of Warner, Warner, South Dakota Written Agreement dated Sept. 16, 2010 Terminated June 7, 2016 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker issued the following statement today regarding the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s determination that the proposal submitted by the global Internet multistakeholder community meets the criteria NTIA outlined in March 2014 when it announced its intention to complete the privatization of the Internet’s domain name system.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON – The U.S. Department of Labor filed two separate federal lawsuits in Houston today alleging that two employers operating in the city illegally fired employees for making safety complaints to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. In the first filing, the department alleges Eustis ...
By Labor Gazette | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO ‒ As a 54-year-old worker, who fell more than 11 feet as he installed a roof joist, recovered from his injuries, federal inspectors investigating his fall on March 8, 2016, arrived two days later and found a co-worker about 40 feet off the ground without proper fall protection.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Federal workplace safety and health inspectors have cited a Massachusetts construction company after a worker suffered serious injuries after he fell almost 19 feet from a Portsmouth roof.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: BALTIMORE – Enterprise RAC Company of Baltimore, LLC, a subsidiary of one of the world’s largest vehicle rental companies and a federal contractor, is discriminating against African-American applicants pursuing entry-level management trainee positions, the U.S. Department of Labor alleges in a lawsuit filed recently.
