News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the guilty plea of New York City Correction Officer BYRON TAYLOR in connection with efforts to cover up the cause of the death of Ronald Spear, a pre-trial detainee at Rikers Island. TAYLOR pled guilty to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Sally Kirby, 61, of Essex Junction, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 15 months of imprisonment following her guilty plea to a federal forgery charge. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III also...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Brooklyn, New York, man was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison on multiple counts in connection with a multimillion-dollar, multi-state burglary spree, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: Law enforcement seized over 2,200 grams of 98% pure methamphetamine during the course of defendant’s arrest.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary Johnson: I write to request information on two terror suspects who allegedly carried out attacks at multiple locations over this past weekend. On Sept. 17, 2016, Dahir Aden reportedly stabbed ten people at the Crossroads Center mall in St. Cloud, Minnesota, before he was shot to death...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that her office is observing National Heroin and Opioid Awareness Week by bringing the discussion to Shreveport and surrounding high schools.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former office manager for an independent sporting goods distributor has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for embezzling nearly $370,000 from her Los Alamitos-based employer.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 Improving morale within the Department of Homeland Security has been one of my top priorities as Secretary. I have said many times that, this year, morale will improve. Our aggressive campaign to improve morale across this 22-component, 232,000-person workforce has produced results.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Tate Jarrow to be recognized at the Seymour J. Heyman Service to America Medals For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 I am very proud that U.S. Secret Service Special Agent Tate Jarrow will receive this year’s Call to Service Medal for his vital ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: A Nashville, Tennessee, resident and a LaVergne, Tennessee, resident pleaded guilty in separate cases this week to assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: The Department of Justice today announced awards totaling over $4 million to 13 state and local jurisdictions to help them use evidence-based principles and practices to rehabilitate and ultimately reduce recidivism among military veterans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: Defendant Accused of Stealing from Charity, Defrauding Donors, Lying to IRS The former executive director of the Armed Forces Foundation was indicted today on federal charges stemming from a scheme in which she allegedly stole from the non-profit charity, defrauded donors, and lied to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the public about her salary and benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today it has reached an agreement with the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles (LASC) to ensure that limited English proficient (LEP) court users will have access to timely and accurate language assistance services.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, FBI Director James B. Comey, U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara of the Southern District of New York, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey, Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker hosted the President’s Call to Action Refugee Roundtable held in conjunction with the United Nations General Assembly. President Obama joined the roundtable halfway through the discussion to hear the business leaders’ thoughts on how to address the refugee crisis.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker today announced the appointment of 23 private sector leaders to the second President’s Advisory Council on Doing Business in Africa (PAC-DBIA). PAC-DBIA members – representing small, medium, and large companies from a variety of industry sectors – advise the President, through the Secretary of Commerce, on ways to strengthen commercial engagement between the United States and Africa.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: BOLIVAR, Ohio – One of the nation’s largest discount retailers continues to ignore federal workplace safety inspectors who have found repeated instances where the company endangers workers and customers alike by blocking exit routes with stacked merchandise.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez issued the following statement on the filing of lawsuits by a group of states, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other organizations in the Eastern District of Texas challenging the update to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime rules for white-collar, ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor announced today an investment of $6.4 million in grants to provide currently and formerly incarcerated individuals with important jobs skills and resources by establishing additional American Job Centers inside correctional facilities, and create an online clearinghouse ...
By Labor Gazette | Sep 20, 2016
News Release: Date of Action: Sept. 16, 2016 Type of Action: Complaint Name of Defendants: Homestead Physicians P.A.
