News published on Federal Newswire in January 2017

News from January 2017


Upton & Shimkus on Svinicki’s Appointment to Head Nuclear Regulatory Commission

News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Subcommittee on Energy Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Subcommittee on Environment Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after Kristine Svinicki was named Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).


Former Energy Company Executives Convicted in Embezzlement Scheme

News Release: HOUSTON - The former president of Chase Power Development has entered a guilty plea to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Kathleen Smith entered her plea today, while co-defendant and former CEO John Upchurch entered his plea earlier this month.


News Release: Today, the New York Times reported on a forthcoming Executive Order on “Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants." The order would permit the CIA “to reopen ‘black site’ prisons, like those where it detained and tortured terrorism suspects before President Obama shut them down." The order would also reverse President Obama’s decision to give the International Committee of the Red Cross access to all wartime detainees in U.S. custody.


News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., tax preparer was sentenced in federal court today for defrauding his clients and failing to pay his personal income taxes, which totaled nearly $300,000.


News Release: Today a federal court in Montana unsealed an order authorizing the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to serve a John Doe summons on Michael Behr of Bozeman, Montana, seeking information about U.S. taxpayers who may hold offshore accounts established by Sovereign Management & Legal LTD (SML), a Panamanian ...


News Release: A Canadian citizen and permanent resident of Costa Rica was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for his role in an international money laundering conspiracy in connection with international “pump and dump” securities fraud scheme. Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice ...


News Release: Two owners of psychological services companies, one of whom was a clinical psychologist, were convicted yesterday for their involvement in a $25.2 million Medicare fraud scheme carried out through eight companies at nursing homes in four states in the Southeastern United States.


The US State Department published a two page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.