News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A United States District Court jury convicted five Short North Posse gang members of racketeering and murder today following a two-month trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 9, 2016
News Release: FBI Seeks Suspect in Robbery of SunTrust Bank Branch in Coral Springs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Gabriel Valley man has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme that used stolen identities to file fraudulent tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service that sought more than $2.6 million in false tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that an Indictment was been handed down by a federal grand jury yesterday charging William Cook, age 60, of Ocean City, Maryland, with bank fraud and money laundering. The defendant faces up to 30 years in prison on the bank fraud charge, and up to 10 years on the money laundering charge, in addition to possible fines and restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Edward J. Ryan, the Special Agent in Charge of the United States Social Security Administration, Office of the Inspector General, announced that THOMAS SHEA, a former New York City Police Department (“NYPD") sergeant...
By State Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a reception honoring Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 8, 2016 — The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today awarded $16.8 million in competitive grants to help Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants increase their purchases of fruits and vegetables. The funding comes from the Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive (FINI) program, authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill and administered by USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA).
By USDA Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 8, 2016 – Leaders from five state departments of agriculture and eight U.S. agribusinesses and organizations will accompany Agriculture Acting Deputy Secretary Michael Scuse on a trade mission to Ukraine and Romania June 11 to June 18 to expand export opportunities for U.S. food and agricultural products.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Two Memphis, Tennessee, area residents were sentenced to prison today for conspiring to defraud the United States and aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: A Raleigh, North Carolina, man was sentenced to 71 months in prison today after pleading guilty in February to one count of conspiracy to commit theft of public money and one count of theft of public money, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Sex Trafficking Scheme Used Threats, Violence and Coercion to Compel Women into Prostitution in New Orleans and Elsewhere Additional defendants were sentenced today for their respective roles in a sex trafficking scheme operated out of the Riviera Motel in New Orleans, which compelled multiple women ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: An Ohio lobbyist was sentenced today to 15 months for engaging in extortion in connection with a bribery and fraud scheme involving conduit contributions to the campaigns of elected officials.
By Fed Newswire | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) on Wednesday announced that four foreign banking organizations (FBOs) will be required to submit their next resolution plans on July 1, 2017.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews delivered remarks at a conference hosted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and George Mason University’s Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property. The Department of Commerce is committed to promoting the commercialization of technologies through licensing and promoting licensing of U.S. technologies overseas, including to under-licensed economies such as China.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Ashley Furniture, the nation’s largest retailer of home furnishings, have entered into a corporate wide settlement agreement that provides an effective framework for protecting workers from machine hazards. The agreement also resolves all pending OSHA citations at the company’s plants in Arcadia and Whitehall, Wisconsin, and in Ecru and Ripley, Mississippi.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: BOSTON – A truck driver concerned he couldn’t complete his delivery from Massachusetts to New Jersey and back without violating federal safety regulations and putting himself and others at risk thought he’d devised a solution to deliver his cargo on-time and comply with the regulations. Instead of thanking him, his employer fired him.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today published a Request for Information on approaches to control and monitor underground miners’ exposures to diesel exhaust. “It’s time for the agency to look back and review its existing standards and determine whether they adequately protect miners’ health,” said Joseph A. Main , assistant secretary of labor for mine safety and health.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 8, 2016
News Release: Date of action: June 1, 2016 Type of action: Consent Judgment and Order Name of Defendants: The Children’s Place Inc.; The Children’s Place Inc. Welfare Benefit Plan; Hendrik Johannes Lamprecht Allegations: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration filed a complaint on ...
By Commerce News Now | Jun 8, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jun 8, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on June 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
