News from November 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 11, 2019
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States District Court Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr. has sentenced Josephine M. Crowe to 132 months’ imprisonment followed by 3 years supervised release. He also ordered restitution in the amount of $3,049,025 for fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Russell Coleman.
By State Newswire | Nov 11, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We write to express our deep concern regarding the potential visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Washington. President Erdogan’s decision to invade northern Syria on October 9 has had disastrous consequences for U.S. national security, has led to deep divisions in...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 11, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C.- Today, Rep. Adam B. Schiff, the Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Acting Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the transcripts from joint depositions of two former assistants to Ambassador Volker: Catherine Croft and Christopher Anderson.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 11, 2019
News Release: On behalf of the National Parks of Eastern North Carolina, we thank all veterans for their invaluable service to all Americans. Veterans Day is an important time to reflect on the sacrifices that members of our military have made to build our country and preserve our freedom and way of life.
By State Newswire | Nov 10, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, this evening made the following statement on Evo Morales’s resignation as President of Bolivia and the next steps for the country’s electoral process...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 9, 2019
News Release: Cape Hatteras National Seashore is pleased to announce that we have completed the pavement preservation project along North Carolina Highway 12 (NC 12) between Whalebone Junction and south Nags Head. At 3 p.m. tomorrow, the detour on South Old Oregon Inlet Road will be discontinued and NC 12 will reopen. A layer of asphalt pavement has been applied to the highway to preserve the existing road condition and lengthen the life of the highway.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 9, 2019
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $12 million funding opportunity for new projects to support research and development (R&D) and education and workforce development that will enable U.S. manufacturers to increase the recovery, recycling, reuse, and remanufacturing of plastics and...
By State Newswire | Nov 9, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Congressman Michael McCaul (R-TX), Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement on the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall...
By USDA Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: (Washington, D.C., November 8, 2019) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will make available $800 million to agricultural producers in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia affected by hurricanes Michael and Florence. The state block grants are part ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that BB&T Corporation (BB&T) and SunTrust Banks Inc. (SunTrust) have agreed to divest 28 branches across North Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia with approximately $2.3 billion in deposits to resolve antitrust concerns arising from BB&T’s proposed merger with SunTrust. The divestiture constitutes the largest divestiture in a bank merger in over a decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Under a proposed settlement announced today by the United States, the State of Michigan and the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan, The Dow Chemical Company will implement and fund an estimated $77 million in natural resource restoration projects intended to compensate the public for injuries ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed an amended complaint that adds Arkansas as a plaintiff in the suit and proposed settlement relating to the proposed merger of T-Mobile and Sprint. Arkansas joins Colorado, Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and South Dakota ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: A Macon, Mississippi, tax return preparer pleaded guilty yesterday to aiding and assisting in the preparation and filing of a false tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst of the Southern ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: A former senior executive with Alstom S.A. (Alstom), a French power and transportation company, was found guilty today for his role in a multi-year, multimillion-dollar foreign bribery scheme and a related money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Fifteen individuals, including two former company owners, were charged in a superseding indictment unsealed today for their alleged participation in a scheme to defraud investors in the United States and worldwide by fraudulently marketing approximately $140 million in financial instruments known as ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Randy Hays, 32, a former police officer with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department (SLMPD) pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Eastern District of Missouri to one count of using unreasonable and excessive force against a fellow SLMPD police officer, who was believed to be a protestor ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: A federal jury found a District of Columbia insurance broker guilty today for his role in a scheme to defraud CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield of more than $2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: On Sept. 25, 2019, a federal district court in North Carolina entered a unique final judgment in a private no-poach class action that approves the parties’ settlement agreement and allows the United States to enforce the injunctive relief and compliance provisions of the settlement agreement. The settlement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: Four additional individuals were charged in an indictment unsealed today in the Northern District of Texas for their role in a multi-million investment fraud scheme that targeted the elderly.
By Fed Newswire | Nov 8, 2019
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday invited public comment on a proposal to extend by 18 months the initial compliance dates for foreign banks subject to its single-counterparty credit limit rule. The extension would provide additional time for foreign jurisdictions' versions of the rule to become effective and would apply only to the combined U.S. operations of the foreign banks and not to any U.S. intermediate holding companies of those banks.
