News published on Federal Newswire in March 2016

News from March 2016


News Release: A former Navy noncommissioned officer was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for accepting approximately $25,000 in cash bribes from vendors while he served in Afghanistan.


News Release: All TERMINIX Locations Have Ceased Using Pesticides Containing Methyl Bromide in the United States Employees Illegally Applied Pesticides Containing Methyl Bromide to Residences in St. John, St. Croix, and St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.


News Release: The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has issued an order permanently barring Mia Jordan, a Southfield, Michigan, tax preparer, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. Jordan consented to the civil injunction order.


News Release: Thirteen Individuals and Three Companies Have Been Convicted or Pleaded Guilty in the Investigation to Date A former bidder for a Pennsylvania tax liens investment company was sentenced to serve a prison term of 12 months and one day and pay a $25,000 criminal fine for conspiring to rig bids at New Jersey ...


News Release: A member of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) prison gang was sentenced today in federal court to 262 months in prison for conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise and related charges, announced Assistant Attorney General ­­­­­­­Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.


News Release: Jaelyn Delshaun Young, 20, of Starkville, Mississippi, pleaded guilty today in the Northern District of Mississippi to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.


Federal Reserve engages in effort to assess faster payments solutions

News Release: The Federal Reserve on Tuesday announced the selection of McKinsey & Company to support Faster Payments Task Force efforts this year to assess faster payments solution proposals from various providers across the United States payments industry.


News Release: U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced today the appointment of 17 distinguished leaders with a wide range of expertise on digital policy and economic issues to serve on the U.S. Commerce Department’s Digital Economy Board of Advisors, which will provide recommendations on ways to advance economic growth and opportunity in the digital age.


Pennsylvania contractor cited by OSHA for ignoring trench dangers as excavation collapse kills 21-year-old worker in Butler County

News Release: BEAVER, Pa. – Twenty-one-year-old Jacob Casher was still a “new guy” employed by a Beaver-based plumbing company when he left home for work in September 2015. He probably never imagined that, as he worked to install a sewer line 11-feet underground in Butler, it was to be the last day of his life.



Labor Secretary Perez’s statement on US Supreme Court ruling in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association

News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Department of Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez issued the following statement on today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association “Today’s Supreme Court ruling is an important victory for public employees, for their right to have a voice at work, for their right to stand together and speak up for the things that matter to them, their families and their communities.


Mine safety alert targets April – the second deadliest month in mining

News Release: GRAPEVINE, Texas – Assistant Secretary of Labor for Mine Safety and Health Joseph A. Main announced the agency’s plan to curb mining deaths in one of the year’s deadliest months. The announcement came at the 34th Annual South Central Joint Mine Health & Safety Conference in Grapevine.


The US Interior Department published a one page notice on March 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a three page notice on March 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on March 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a two page notice on March 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published an eight page notice on March 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on March 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on March 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Federal Reserve System published a two page notice on March 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.