News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Methamphetamine Deaths Are On The Rise In Georgia.
By Homeland Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – On May 1st, Second Lady of the United States Karen Pence was joined by Homeland Security Acting Secretary Kevin K. McAleenan to announce a new partnership between the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) and LinkedIn. The agreement was sealed by a Memorandum of Understanding providing a free one-year ...
By USDA Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, May 1, 2019 – Today the U.S. Department of Agriculture published a memorandum to state agencies encouraging them to require Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participants to cooperate with child support programs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: A federal court in North Carolina authorized the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to serve John Doe summonses on Bank of America, Charles Schwab, and TD Bank in an order that was unsealed yesterday, the Justice Department announced. The John Doe summonses seek information about persons residing in Finland ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: A federal jury in Paducah, Kentucky, convicted a deputy jailer at the Fulton County Detention Center of violating the civil rights of an inmate by assaulting him with a dangerous weapon. The jury convicted James Eakes, 54, of willfully depriving an inmate of the right to be free from cruel and unusual ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: A former resident of Durant, Mississippi, was sentenced yesterday to 60 months in prison for preparing and filing a fraudulent claim for a tax refund with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Austin Garland Burke, 64, and Timmy Allen Kemper, 58, were indicted today for the use of unlawful force on a pretrial detainee at the Western Regional Jail in Barboursville, West Virginia, while they were acting as internal affairs officers with the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Michael S. Flynn, executive and co-owner of an insulation contractor, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport, Connecticut, for his role in multiple schemes to rig bids in violation of the antitrust laws and to engage in criminal fraud on insulation contracts, marking the second conviction in this ongoing ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: A federal grand jury in Las Vegas, Nevada, returned a three-count indictment today against three alleged gang members of La Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) for their involvement in connection with a kidnapping and murder.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: A resident of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and a resident of Boca Raton, Florida, each pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Michigan to failing to collect, truthfully account for, and pay over payroll taxes announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Bossert Clark of the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) and United States Attorney William M. McSwain for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal jury in Reading, Pennsylvania, convicted David M. Dunham ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Gas marketer B. Charles Rogers Gas Ltd. (BCR), which operated in the San Juan Basin area of New Mexico and southern Colorado, and its owners Billy Charles Rogers Jr. and Wynon Rogers, of Fort Worth, Texas, have agreed to pay $3.575 million to resolve False Claims Act (FCA) allegations that they caused ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: A former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) case officer pleaded guilty today to conspiring to communicate, deliver and transmit national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. Assistant Attorney General for National Security John C. Demers, U.S. Attorney G. Zachary Terwilliger for the ...
By Fed Newswire | May 1, 2019
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in March indicates that the labor market remains strong and that economic activity rose at a solid rate. Job gains have been solid, on average, in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Growth of household spending and ...
By Commerce News Now | May 1, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce announced the initiation of new antidumping duty (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) investigations to determine whether ceramic tile from China is being dumped in the United States and to determine if producers in China are receiving unfair subsidies.
By Labor Gazette | May 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a new Job Corps demonstration project to provide at-risk youth with job skills instruction, educational opportunities, and individualized employment counseling through the establishment of the Job Corps Scholars Program. "The U.S. Department ...
By Labor Gazette | May 1, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a new Job Corps demonstration project to provide at-risk youth with job skills instruction, educational opportunities, and individualized employment counseling through the establishment of the Job Corps Scholars Program. "The U.S. Department ...
By State News Post | May 1, 2019
The US State Department published a two page notice on May 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | May 1, 2019
The US State Department published a two page notice on May 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 1, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on May 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
