News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: A U.S. national was deported from Mexico to the United States and arrested yesterday on a criminal complaint charging him with the attempted murder of a diplomat stationed at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Update: LOS ANGELES - A Pico-Union resident was indicted today on federal drug trafficking charges for allegedly trying to smuggle at least one kilogram of heroin on a plane leaving Los Angeles International Airport. The heroin was wrapped in Christmas paper and concealed in checked luggage on a flight...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Presidential Champions Program Joins SuperTracker Food and Activity Tracking Tool WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 2017 – Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that USDA's free online tool, SuperTracker , has incorporated the President's ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: A former general manager and partial owner of a Florida-based energy company and an owner of multiple Texas-based energy companies each pleaded guilty today to foreign bribery charges for their roles in a scheme to corruptly secure contracts from Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: A U.S. national was deported from Mexico to the United States and arrested yesterday on a criminal complaint charging him with the attempted murder of a diplomat stationed at the U.S. Consulate in Guadalajara, Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the former Chief of Police of Stevenson, Alabama, Daniel Winters, 56, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for beating an arrestee and for standing by while Winters’ friend beat the arrestee. On July 14, 2016, a federal jury convicted Winters of two counts of violating the individual’s civil rights. Winters was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge Madeline Hughes Haikala of the Northern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned an indictment against three former traders of major banks for their alleged roles in a conspiracy to manipulate the price of U.S. dollars and euros exchanged in the foreign currency exchange (FX) spot market, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Court documents were unsealed today charging four individuals for their roles in a scheme to pay $2.5 million in bribes to facilitate the $800 million sale of a commercial building in Vietnam to a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Justin Kaliebe, 22, of Babylon and Bay Shore, New York, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and 20 years of supervised release with special conditions (including computer monitoring, a prohibition on contact with jihadists, search conditions, mental health treatment and a curfew, among others) following ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement on the sentencing of Dylann Roof: “On June 17, 2015, Dylann Storm Roof sought out and opened fire on African-American parishioners engaged in worship and bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. ...
By Fed Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: First Personal Financial Corp., Orland Park, Illinois Written Agreement dated Nov. 1, 2010 Terminated January 5, 2017 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings from November 14 through Dec. 14, 2016.
By Fed Newswire | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced preliminary results indicating that the Reserve Banks provided for payments of approximately $92.0 billion of their estimated 2016 net income to the U.S. Treasury. The 2016 audited Reserve Bank financial statements are expected to be published in March and may include adjustments to these preliminary unaudited results.
By Commerce News Now | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: At the request of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) of the Department of Commerce (DOC) conducted an assessment of the EB-5 program to determine its size and its contribution to the U.S. economy. ...
By Labor Gazette | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. – The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit against Jasper Roofing Contractors Inc. and its owner/chief executive officer, Brian Wedding, for terminating their safety manager after he cooperated with a safety and health inspection by the department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 10, 2017
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – Preliminary data released by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration indicate that in 2016, 26 miners died in work-related accidents at the nation’s mines – down from 29 in 2015. The figure represents the lowest number of mining deaths ever recorded and only the second year that mining deaths dropped below 30. Currently, approximately 330,000 miners work in more than 13,000 U.S. mines.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 10, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jan 10, 2017
The US State Department published a two page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 10, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 10, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
