News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Enabled theft ring of high-end purses, vacuum cleaners, electronics, gift cards and power tools.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MARC ANTHONY ALEXANDER, 37, formerly of Stratford and Oxford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 96 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for operating two separate fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two residents of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Danny Paul Cummings, age 47, of Charleston, was sentenced today to 90 months in federal prison followed by ten years of supervised release on one count of Distribution of Child Pornography. The Honorable Chief Judge P. K. Holmes, III presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fort Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have recommended that Alaska repeal its certificate-of-need (CON) laws, which require healthcare providers to obtain state approval before expanding, establishing new facilities or services, or making certain large capital expenditures.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Jason A. Halek, 43, of Southlake, Texas, pleaded guilty in federal court in Bismarck, North Dakota, to three felony charges stemming from the operation of a saltwater disposal well near Dickinson, in Stark County, North Dakota, the Justice Department announced. Halek pleaded guilty to three counts of violating the Safe Drinking Water Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: A Florida business owner pleaded guilty today for his role in selling the personal information of tens of thousands of individuals to fraudulent telemarketers, who used the information to target potential victims for various fraudulent telemarketing schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Joseph D. Jones, also known as “Yusuf Abdulhaqq,” 35, and Edward Schimenti, also known as “Abdul Wali,” 35, both of Zion, Illinois, were arrested today on a federal complaint charging them with conspiring and attempting to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: A Loveland, Colorado businessman, who owned a delicatessen franchise in Fort Collins, pleaded guilty today to conspiring to file fraudulent claims for tax refunds, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Bob Troyer, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: A former housing repair contractor pleaded guilty to committing fraud, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: A Pakistani citizen pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to smuggle undocumented migrants from Pakistan into the United States. Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips of the District of Columbia and Special Agent in Charge Angel M. Melendez of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New York made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: A former officer and program manager for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) pleaded guilty today to making false statements regarding his improper use of CBP and other law enforcement databases.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: A grand jury in the Western District of Virginia indicted a Concord, Virginia couple for filing false federal tax returns and conspiring to structure currency transactions, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: A supervisory deputy jailer at an Eastern Kentucky detention center has been convicted today by a jury of federal charges related to his role in an unprovoked violent assault of a detainee, announced by Acting Assistant Attorney General Tom Wheeler for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Carlton Shier, IV for the Eastern District of Kentucky and Special Agent in Charge Amy Hess of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Louisville Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (WDHS) has agreed to pay the United States $6,991,905 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in its administration of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Department of Justice announced today. Until 2008, SNAP was known as the Food Stamp Program.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Today, in an unprecedented action, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the final results of an annual administrative review of the antidumping duty order on imports of oil country tubular goods (OCTG) from the Republic of Korea. The Department of Commerce has found that Korean steel producers have been unfairly dumping OCTG in the U.S. market, hurting American workers and businesses.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced that he will host the 2017 SelectUSA Investment Summit (Summit), June 18-20, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, Md. The Summit is the highest profile event to connect global companies and U.S. economic development organizations (EDOs) to facilitate business investment in the United States.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: BOSTON – Robert Higgins and Kelvin Mattocks died on Oct. 21, 2016 in Boston, when the approximately 12-foot deep trench in which they were working collapsed, breaking an adjacent fire hydrant supply line and filling the trench with water in a matter of seconds.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor will begin taking actions to develop a comprehensive agency reform plan, as directed by guidance from the Office of Management and Budget. The goal is to create a more efficient and accountable department that works for job seekers, workers, employers and retirees across the U.S.
By Fed News Journal | Apr 12, 2017
The US Federal Reserve System published a three page notice on April 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
