News from October 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Sudhakar Reddy Bonthu, a former manager at Equifax, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to insider trading. Bonthu bought and sold Equifax stock options before Equifax’s data breach was publicly announced, while working as a member of the team assembled to respond to the company’s massive data breach in 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today released the following statement after the Trump administration notified Congress that it intends to initiate trade negotiations with the European Union (EU), Japan and the United Kingdom (UK)...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: The American people have this to learn: that where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither person nor property is safe.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: PIKE COUNTY, Ohio - EM contractor Portsmouth Mission Alliance (PMA) recently received DOE Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) “STAR" recognition for the eighth consecutive year on behalf of the infrastructure support workforce at the former Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: Imagine a first responder answering the call to a natural disaster, a house fire, or an active shooter incident where there may be multiple injuries and unknown casualties. The information the responder needs to fulfill the mission is immeasurable. When you also consider the volume of data they receive...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. - The Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Lake Havasu Field Office will implement the temporary closure of a small strip of public land adjacent to the Lake Havasu City Airport, in order to meet Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) airshow ground safety requirements during the upcoming Hangar 24 AirFest. The temporary closure will be in effect October 26-27.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Joe Kelly announced that Becky Neeb, 37, was sentenced on Monday, Oct. 15, 2018, in Omaha, Nebraska, by Chief United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp for the crime of tax evasion. Judge Smith Camp sentenced Neeb to 5 years’ probation and ordered Neeb to make restitution to the IRS in the amount of $137,374, representing the total tax loss.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 16, 2018
News Release: “If you don’t know what happened behind you, you’ve no idea of what is happening around you.".
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: FBI Media Alert: Man Charged with Two Albuquerque Bank Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Longtime Director of Security for the Senate Select Committee on IntelligenceAdmits Lying to FBI About Disclosing Information to Reporter.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON – Thousands of first responders and volunteers continue working together to save lives, restore power and help survivors affected by Hurricane Michael.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2018 - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today announced the appointment of 16 members to serve on the United Soybean Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: An individual who defied court orders by operating a multimillion mass-mailing fraud scheme pleaded guilty on Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, in federal court on Long Island before a magistrate judge, the Department of Justice announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced a series of measures to dismantle transnational criminal organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: On Oct. 12, 2018, the District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee unsealed a 32-count indictment charging four individuals and seven companies in a $1 billion health care fraud scheme. The court also unsealed an additional two plea agreements and an information charging another individual and his company for their role in the scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: James A. Wolfe, 57, of Ellicott City, Maryland, a former staff employee of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI), pleaded guilty today to one count of making a false statement to special agents of the FBI during the course of an investigation into the unlawful disclosure of classified ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: A Germantown, Ohio businessman who controlled the operation of an anti-aging skincare business in Dayton, Ohio was sentenced to 33 months in prison today following his November 2017 conviction by a federal jury on seven counts of filing false corporate, individual, and private foundation tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that Indal Technologies Inc. (Indal) has agreed to pay $3.5 million to resolve allegations that it knowingly sold defective helicopter landing systems designed for U.S. Navy destroyers. Indal, of Ontario, Canada, is a division within Curtiss-Wright Corporation of Charlotte, North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: A health care CEO pleaded guilty today to a superseding indictment as part of an investigation into a $300 million health care fraud scheme that involved the distribution of over 6.6 million dosage units of controlled substances and the administration of medically unnecessary injections that resulted ...
By Fed Newswire | Oct 15, 2018
News Release: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome H. Powell will host a town hall meeting with educators from across the country on February 6, 2019. The educators will join the Chairman at 7 p.m. EST in the Board Room of the Board's main building in Washington, D.C., and participate via webcast from Federal Reserve Bank offices throughout the country. The Chairman will respond to questions from both the in-person audience and participants at the Reserve Bank offices.
