News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today that he, and other members of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will team with school leaders and students from all across the Western District of Virginia over the next two weeks to take part in the office’s first Student Pledge Against Gun Violence.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will hold a competitive geothermal lease sale on Oct. 26, at 1 p.m. at the Sheraton Grand Hotel, 1230 J St., Sacramento.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security Academic Advisory Council (HSAAC) today held its eleventh meeting, convening college and university presidents, academic leaders and interagency partners to provide the Secretary of Homeland Security ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2016 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is awarding $7.6 million in grants to support projects that will grow opportunity in rural America through job training and economic development. The grants will support communities ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, 2016 — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest up to $7 million in grants for projects designed to expand wood products and wood energy markets that support sustainable forest management, especially in areas with high wildfire risks. These grants are available through the U.S. Forest Service's Wood Innovations Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: A Leawood, Kansas business owner was sentenced yesterday to 51 months in prison after being convicted of tax evasion following a five-week jury trial in April announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Thomas Beall of the District of Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a joint guidance letter today to state and local child welfare systems on the requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and its implementing regulations. Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: The owner of a New Orleans medical service company and a doctor who served as the company’s medical director were sentenced to prison today for their involvement in a $34 million Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Today, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer addressed 32 judges from Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, Panama and Peru as part of a Department of Justice training program at the Judicial Studies Institute (JSI) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the judiciaries of the Western Hemisphere. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: A resident of West Bridgewater, Massachusetts was sentenced to 10 months in prison today for filing a false individual income tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. According to documents filed with the court, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Submitted Checks Drawn on Closed Accounts to IRS A Salt Lake City, Utah grand jury returned an indictment today charging a chiropractor and health care products business owner with one count of attempting to evade the payment of his federal income taxes for the years 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2010, and one ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Muhanad Elfatih M.A. Badawi, 25, of Anaheim, California, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for conspiring with another man to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has moved to intervene in Savage et al. v. Pocomoke City et al., a private lawsuit alleging race discrimination and retaliation under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Pocomoke City, Maryland, the Worcester County Sheriff and the state of Maryland. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: A former CEO of a traffic light enforcement camera vendor was sentenced today to 14 months in prison for her role in a multi-year bribery and fraud scheme, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Benjamin C. Glassman of the Southern District of Ohio and Special Agent in Charge Angela L. Byers of the FBI’s Cincinnati Field Office.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: The three federal banking regulatory agencies today approved an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) inviting comment on a set of potential enhanced cybersecurity risk-management and resilience standards that would apply to large and interconnected entities under their supervision. The standards would apply as well to services provided by third parties to these firms.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today delivered remarks at the launch of the Global Procurement Initiative (GPI) in Bogota, Colombia. Secretary Pritzker is making her first official visit to Colombia, during which she will meet with government and business leaders on the importance of U.S.-Colombia commercial ties.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Technical Information Service (NTIS) announced today that it has selected 35 organizations through a merit-based process as eligible to be joint venture partners (JVPs). Once partner agreements have been signed, the organizations, which include small and large companies, nonprofits and research groups, will be eligible to compete to work with NTIS on groundbreaking data projects conducted for and funded by federal agencies.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: Today, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) kicked off the first phase of its partnership with Colombia under the Agency’s Global Procurement Initiative: Understanding Best Value (GPI), with remarks from U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, USTDA Director Leocadia I. Zak and Director General ...
By Labor Gazette | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The U.S. Department of Labor requested that a federal judge approve a consent judgment requiring the Puerto Rico Police Department to pay $8,732,386 in back wages and interest to 2,642 current and former police officers who did not receive all their overtime wages required under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Labor Gazette | Oct 19, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is conducting a building construction survey in Connecticut to collect data on wages paid to workers to help establish prevailing wage rates, as required under the Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.
