News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Two rare early 19th century notebooks, that had been taken more than ten years ago from the Stephen Girard Collection at Girard College, were returned to Girard College today by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Attorney’s Office, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Jan. 12, 2017, Jeremy J. Neumann (age: 43) of Neenah, Wisconsin, was found guilty following a jury trial in federal court in Green Bay, Wisconsin, of the following charges: (1) arson of a building in interstate...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing child pornography.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 “In July of last year, President Obama released Presidential Policy Directive/ PPD-41, United States Cyber Incident Coordination, establishing clear principles that will govern the Federal government's actions in responding to ...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced a new partnership between the DHS Blue Campaign - the unified voice for DHS’s efforts to combat human trafficking - and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture today announced availability of $8.8 million in funding to support agricultural science education at Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). The Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) Education ...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: CORRECTION: The application deadline for this program is March 21, 2017. The original news release erroneously indicated an application deadline of March 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: The Justice Department announced today a $5.28 billion settlement with Credit Suisse related to Credit Suisse’s conduct in the packaging, securitization, issuance, marketing and sale of residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) between 2005 and 2007. The resolution announced today requires Credit ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General and former Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust Bill Baer will depart the Justice Department at the conclusion of the Obama Administration on January 20.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Massachusetts-based global financial services company State Street Corporation (State Street) entered into a deferred prosecution agreement and agreed to pay a $32.3 million criminal penalty to resolve charges that it engaged in a scheme to defraud a number of the bank’s clients by secretly applying commissions to billions of dollars of securities trades. State Street also agreed to offer an equal amount as a civil penalty to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Duke to Pay $600,000 for Prematurely Taking Control of the Osprey Energy Center The Department of Justice announced today a settlement with Duke Energy Corporation (Duke) for violating the reporting and waiting period requirements of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976 (HSR Act). ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: The owner and operator of Candy Color Lenses, a major online retailer of colored contact lenses in the United States, was sentenced to 46 months in prison today for running an international operation importing counterfeit and misbranded contact lenses from suppliers in Asia and then selling them over ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Three Orange County, California residents pleaded guilty today to willfully failing to report their foreign bank accounts in Switzerland and Israel, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice filed a proposed consent decree of permanent injunction in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against VivaCeuticals Inc., doing business as Regeneca Worldwide, and its CEO Matthew A. Nicosia, to prevent violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA). Defendants have agreed to cease all operations as part of a settlement with the Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: An associate of the Vice Lords street gang was sentenced to 48 months in prison today for witness tampering by obtaining and disclosing the private health information of Vice Lords shooting victims and victims’ family members to a member of the gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division and the National Association of Attorneys General announced the availability today of Guidelines for Joint State/Federal Civil Environmental Enforcement Litigation. A workgroup of litigators from the Environment and Natural Resources ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that 24 pallets of timber seized by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) on Dec. 20, 2015, at the Port of Houston, Texas for violation of the Lacey Act and customs law were destroyed in accordance with a settlement ...
By Fed Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced that it has finalized a rule adjusting the Board's maximum civil money penalties, as required by law.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK – A hotel management company and the company which supplied employees to nine of its New York City hotels have agreed to resolve an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division that found violations of the minimum wage, overtime and recordkeeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
By Labor Gazette | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: GREEN BAY, Wis. – In less than 10 days in 2016, two employees at a Green Bay muffler component manufacturer suffered severe injuries as they operated machinery without adequate safety guards and procedures in place, federal workplace safety investigators have determined.
