News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi has begun a pilot school education program entitled "Pills, Needles & Designer Drugs" with presentations at Biloxi High School November 2-3, 2016 and St. Patrick’s Catholic High School scheduled for November 29th. The program was first presented at Jeff Davis Elementary School in Biloxi on October 27th.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following notification that the Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule implementing the Promoting Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP) Act to help curb the opioid epidemic.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: NAPOLEON, Ohio - An Ohio manufacturer of railroad track repair kits routinely exposed its workers amputation risks and other serious injuries as they serviced and maintained industrial core machine mixers, an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Crimes Took Place This Summer. WASHINGTON - Melvin Smith, 45, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to three counts of robbery in connection with a recent series of robberies of convenience stores in Northeast and Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips. Smith pled guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: NOV 01 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Shawn Miller, also known as “White Boy Shawn," 32, of Hamden, was sentenced today by...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: A Dubuque-area man, who stole and sold over $400,000 worth of his employer’s goods on the Internet, was sentenced today to 78 months’ imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Kenneth Fells, Jr. of Citronelle, Alabama, was sentenced to 57 months imprisonment following a July 2016 guilty plea to a charge of possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2016–The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) today announced the winners of the first Innovations in Food and Agricultural Science and Technology (I-FAST) $200,000 prize competition. I-FAST ...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Nearly Half of Grant Funds to Assist Persistently Poor StrikeForce Counties WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $331 million in 85 projects that will improve water and wastewater infrastructure in rural ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: A former business manager of Local 657 of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) pleaded guilty today to stealing $1.7 million from Local 657 and related offenses. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Assistant Director in Charge ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: A 21-count indictment was unsealed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York charging seven defendants with sex trafficking, conspiracy and related offenses. The indictment, which was returned under seal on Sept. 15, 2016, alleges that the defendants are members of an international ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has opened an investigation into the conditions at the Boyd County Detention Center in Catlettsburg, Kentucky. The investigation will focus on whether prisoners are adequately protected from the use of excessive force, whether prisoners are subject to an invasion of their bodily privacy and whether the jail indiscriminately uses restrictive housing without due process.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission seek public comment on proposed Antitrust Guidelines for International Enforcement and Cooperation. The proposed guidelines update the 1995 Antitrust Enforcement Guidelines for International Operations and provide guidance ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: An attorney who operated a tax preparation business in the Bronx, New York, pleaded guilty today in Manhattan federal court to charges related to his participation in filing fraudulent tax returns and falsely claiming more than $6 million in bogus deductions, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara for the Southern District of New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: A federal jury sitting in Oakland, California convicted a resident of Richmond, California yesterday for his role in a conspiracy to steal identities and cash fraudulently obtained and stolen U.S. Treasury checks, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced that it has reached a settlement agreement with Louisiana Tech University to ensure that black students have access to the high-quality education programs at the A.E. Phillips Laboratory School, a K-8 public school operated by Louisiana Tech on its campus in Lincoln Parish, ...
By Fed Newswire | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the execution of the enforcement action listed below: Chicago Shore Corporation and Security Chicago Corporation, both of Chicago, Illinois Written Agreement dated Oct. 28, 2016 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: Today, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews delivered remarks at the American Turkish Council’s Golden Horn Breakfast. Since 2009, bilateral trade between the United States and Turkey has nearly doubled and is on pace to reach nearly $17 billion this year.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: DALLAS – For manufacturing industry workers, amputation is serious risk and the cause of more than a 1,400 serious injuries each year. In 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration received reports of more than 2,600 amputations nationwide – 57 percent of them suffered by manufacturing workers.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 1, 2016
News Release: NAPOLEON, Ohio – An Ohio manufacturer of railroad track repair kits routinely exposed its workers amputation risks and other serious injuries as they serviced and maintained industrial core machine mixers, an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found.
