News from January 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Every day patients and middle-class families are facing higher premiums. The Energy and Commerce Committee today released 21 graphics showcasing states where premiums have gone up by the national average of 25 percent or more. All of the graphics can be found on the committee’s newly created Health Care Central, a go-to resource in the effort to deliver meaningful health care reforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 12, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Deirdre M. Daly and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen today announced that Family Care Visiting Nurse and Home Care Agency, LLC (Family Care VNA), and David A. Krett and Rita C. Krett, R.N., B.S.N., owners of Family Care VNA, have entered into a civil settlement with the...
By State Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: We have some new members of the committee today. I was thinking prior to this hearing that 10 years ago, I came on this committee as a new senator. In many ways to broaden my ability to serve our nation and to serve our state, having been mostly a business person.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that an information was filed charging Rachel Crawford, 38, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, with obtaining by fraud and materially false statements, federal financial funds within the jurisdiction of the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Brooklyn, New York, man who was on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted Fugitive List in 1988 was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for robbing a TD Bank in Oakland, New Jersey, in April 2013, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A Champaign, Ill., man, Darryl S. Coleman, 30, of the 1200 block of Joanne Lane, has been ordered to serve a total of 137 months (11 years, 5 months) in federal prison for bank robberies in east central Illinois and northwestern Indiana that occurred in October and November 2015.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 TSA Administrator Pete Neffenger and I call for Airport Operation Centers at the nation’s busiest airports.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 During my tenure as Secretary of DHS we have worked aggressively to enhance the cyber security of federal civilian executive branch networks. This has included deployment of EINSTEIN across all civilian departments and agencies. ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit late yesterday to challenge the at-large method of electing the city council of Eastpointe, Michigan. The complaint alleges that the election system in Eastpointe violates Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act by denying black citizens in the city the equal opportunity to elect representatives of their choice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Shire Pharmaceuticals LLC and other subsidiaries of Shire plc (Shire) will pay $350 million to settle federal and state False Claims Act allegations that Shire and the company it acquired in 2011, Advanced BioHealing (ABH), employed kickbacks and other unlawful ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: VW to Pay $2.8 Billion Criminal Fine in Guilty Plea and $1.5 Billion Settlement of Civil Environmental, Customs and Financial Violations; Monitor to Be Appointed to Oversee the Parent Company Volkswagen AG (VW) has agreed to plead guilty to three criminal felony counts and pay a $2.8 billion criminal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: ****** MEDIA ADVISORY ****** Attorney General Lynch Will Also Deliver Capstone Speech on Community Policing Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch will travel to Baltimore THURSDAY, JAN. 12, to announce a consent decree with the City of Baltimore. Later that day, the Attorney General will deliver a capstone ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: The owners and operators of the tax return preparation businesses Q A Tax Service Inc., Unik Tax Refund, D&M Tax Solutions, LED Tax Services, and UJM Tax Services prepare false tax returns, according to three separate civil suits filed by the United States. The government seeks court orders barring the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: A Montana couple pleaded guilty today in federal court in Missoula, Montana to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Michael W. Cotter for the District of Montana.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the application under section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act by First Citizens BancShares, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina, to increase its ownership interest from 4.9 percent to 9.0 percent of the voting shares of Carter Bank & Trust, Martinsville, Virginia.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: Trade and Investment Working Group INNOVATION POLICY The United States and China believe that innovation is a key driver for economic development, job creation, and shared prosperity, and innovation plays a vital role in developing solutions to domestic, international, and social challenges. The two ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES – The U.S. Department of Labor investigated two popular Solvang tourist restaurants and determined that they denied wait staff break time to express breast milk in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON – A report released today under the labor chapter of the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Trade and Labor Affairs identifies significant concerns regarding Colombian labor law enforcement, as well as concerns with the prosecution of cases of anti-union violence. The report responds to a submission filed under the CTPA by the AFL-CIO and five Colombian workers’ organizations.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 11, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 11, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Jan. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
