News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: The Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) today announced awards totaling more than $38 million to help state, tribal and local government agencies to process sexual assault kits in law enforcement custody that have not been submitted to forensic laboratories.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Assistant Attorney General Karol V. Mason of the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced funding of more than $34.5 million, through nine separate grant programs, to more than 40 jurisdictions, research institutions and other grantees, to reduce crime, improve community ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: The Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) today announced funding of more than $5.6 million through two separate programs. One is a new initiative designed to help communities reduce and prosecute gun crime; the other is an annual grant that enables jurisdictions to leverage technology and information sharing to enhance criminal justice operations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that, as a result of an initiative begun in the summer of this year, the United States has reached settlement with 17 additional tribal governments who alleged that the Department of the Interior and the Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Company Allegedly Violated Sanctions by Facilitating U.S. Dollar Transactions on Behalf of a North Korean Bank with Ties to Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators Four Chinese nationals and a trading company based in Dandong, China, were charged by criminal complaint unsealed today with conspiring ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Defendant Failed to Report More than $4.8 Million in Income from Real Estate Transactions and Other Sources A Chevy Chase, Maryland, man was sentenced to 54 months in prison today after pleading guilty to a federal tax evasion charge stemming from his failure to pay taxes on more than $4.8 million in ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Dewey W. Willis Jr. of Newport, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Wilmington, North Carolina, to federal charges regarding the illegal harvest and sale of Atlantic striped bass from federal waters off the coast of North Carolina during 2010, the Justice Department announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced more than $107 million in grants to American Indian and Alaska Native communities to improve public safety help victims and strengthen tribal institutions. The announcement was made at the Eighth Annual White House Tribal Nations Conference, taking place today ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – Amin Yu, 55, of Orlando, Florida, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for acting in the U.S. as an illegal agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General and for conspiring to commit international money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the owners and managers of four multi-family apartment complexes in the Salt Lake City area have agreed to pay $45,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging that they violated the Fair Housing Act by discriminating against tenants and prospective tenants with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – Nader Elhuzayel, 25, of Anaheim, California, was sentenced to 30 years in prison with a lifetime of supervised release for conspiring and attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and other federal offenses.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday invited public comment on a proposed rule to modify its capital plan and stress testing rules for the 2017 cycle. Among other changes, the proposal would tailor the Federal Reserve's Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) to remove certain large and noncomplex firms from the qualitative assessment of CCAR.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Innovation and creative endeavors are indispensable elements that drive economic growth and sustain the competitive edge of the U.S. economy. The last century recorded unprecedented improvements in the health, economic well-being and overall quality of life for the entire U.S. population.1 As the world ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Today, Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews addressed U.S., Canadian and Mexican officials gathered at the Cybersecurity Across North America Summit , hosted by the New America Foundation. He highlighted the revolutionary new technologies that are powering a digital economy across all three countries. ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker delivered keynote remarks at the Progressive Policy Institute’s (PPI) event on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The program highlighted key issues raised in PPI’s new report, “A Big Deal for Small Business: Seven Stories of How the Trans-Pacific Partnership ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Commerce today released a comprehensive report that finds that intellectual property (IP)-intensive industries support at least 45 million U.S. jobs and contribute more than $6 trillion dollars to, or 38.2 percent of, U.S. gross domestic product (GDP). The report, a joint product ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: PALO ALTO – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit charging that Palantir Technologies, a Palo Alto technology company, discriminated systematically against Asian job applicants in its hiring process and selection procedures.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced today that it has entered into an agreement with the North Carolina Department of Commerce after a compliance review by the federal department’s Civil Rights Center found the state’s unemployment insurance and employment service programs deficient in providing services to those with limited English proficiency.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – Fiduciaries of a health plan covering employees of a major western lumber producer have agreed to settle claims that they did not comply with the Affordable Care Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act when providing healthcare benefits and deciding worker claims for healthcare benefits.
By USDA Wire | Sep 26, 2016
The US Agriculture Department published a seven page rule on Sept. 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
