Access to Limited English Proficient Individuals
02/28/2014 03:50 PM EST
Today, the Justice Department
released a new tool to help state and local courts assess and improve
their language assistance services for limited English proficient
litigants, victims and witnesses who need access to court services.
02/28/2014 04:36 PM EST
A federal grand jury in Boston
has indicted George Fenzell for tax evasion and corruptly endeavoring to
obstruct the Internal Revenue Service, the Justice Department and the
IRS announced today following the unsealing of the indictment.
02/28/2014 05:51 PM EST
The U.S. Department of Justice
and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Connecticut announced
that they have entered into a comprehensive settlement agreement with
the Stamford Public School District in Stamford, Conn., that requires
the district to provide language services and other supports to the more
than 2,000 English Language Learner students enrolled in the district’s
20 schools.
02/27/2014 06:36 PM EST
Attorney General Eric Holder met
this week with members of the Tribal Nations Leadership Council (TNLC)
at the Justice Department. The council, which meets twice a year with
the Attorney General and with numerous officials of the Justice
Department, was created in 2010 and consists of tribal leaders from
around the country. The TNLC advises […]
02/26/2014 09:13 AM EST
Attorney General Eric Holder and
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today released the annual Health Care
Fraud and Abuse Control (HCFAC) Program report showing that for every
dollar spent on health care-related fraud and abuse investigations
through this and other programs in the last three years, the government
recovered $8.10. This is the highest three-year average return on
investment in the 17-year history of the HCFAC Program.
02/26/2014 01:53 PM EST
Acting Assistant Attorney
General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division
announced her departure from the department today, effective as of March 21, 2014.
02/26/2014 03:18 PM EST
The United States has asked a
federal court in McAllen, Texas, to permanently bar Melissa Alvarez and
her companies, Best & Unique Income Services, Best & Unique
Income Tax Melissa and Best & Unique Income Tax Services LLC, from
preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department
announced today.
02/25/2014 10:16 AM EST
As we gather here in Washington
today, I believe that our highest ideals – realized in the form of
landmark Supreme Court rulings, from Brown to Zablocki, from Romer to
Lawrence, from Loving to Windsor – light a clear path forward. They
have impelled us, in some instances, to extraordinary action. And the
progress we’ve seen has been consistent with the finest traditions of
our legal system, the central tenets of our Constitution, and the
“fundamental truth” that, as President Obama once said, “when all
Americans are treated as equal . . . we are all more free.”
02/25/2014 02:35 PM EST
Diagnostic Imaging Group (DIG)
has agreed to pay a total of $15.5 million to resolve allegations that
its diagnostic testing facility falsely billed federal and state health
care programs for tests that were not performed or not medically
necessary and by paying kickbacks to physicians.
02/25/2014 04:07 PM EST
A civilian employee of the U.S.
Navy posted at the Capodichino Navy Base near Naples, Italy, was
arraigned yesterday in Norfolk, Va., for allegedly obtaining more than
$360,000 in housing benefits that he was not entitled to receive.
02/25/2014 03:24 PM EST
A Northern California real
estate investor has agreed to plead guilty for his role in conspiracies
to rig bids and commit mail fraud at public real estate foreclosure
auctions in Northern California.
02/25/2014 07:24 PM EST
Aaron H. Kelly, a United States
Postal Service employee, was indicted yesterday in the U.S. District
Court for the District of Maryland for four counts of mail fraud, two
counts of bank fraud, one count of corruptly endeavoring to obstruct and
impede the Internal Revenue Service and two counts of aiding and
assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, the Justice
Department and IRS announced today following the unsealing of the
indictment.
02/25/2014 07:22 PM EST
Today, a federal jury in the
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Oklahoma in Muskogee,
Okla., convicted Raymond A. Barnes, 43, and Christopher A. Brown, 32,
the former jail superintendent and assistant jail superintendent,
respectively, of the Muskogee County Jail on multiple counts of civil
rights offenses related to allegations of excessive force on inmates at
MCJ on or between August 2009 and May 2011.
02/25/2014 05:16 PM EST
The Civil Rights Division of the
U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern
District of Michigan and the FBI announced today that they will not be
pursuing federal criminal civil rights charges against the Saginaw
Police Department officers who shot and killed Milton Hall on July 1,
2012
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