WASHINGTON–Today, the lead Cabinet secretaries from the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness (USICH) – from the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Labor (DOL), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Veterans Affairs (VA) – joined Executive Director of the USICH Barbara Poppe to unveil and submit to the President and Congress the […]

WASHINGTON–Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today joined Vice President Joe Biden to announce the Obama administration’s Joint Strategic Plan for Intellectual Property (IPR) Enforcement—a multi-agency effort to enhance intellectual property protection by strengthening efforts to combat civil and criminal violations of trademark and copyright infringement. “The products of American ingenuity—from life-saving medicines […]

WASHINGTON–The Justice Department today announced that it has reached an agreement with Morton’s of Chicago/Portland Inc. to settle allegations that it required two non-citizens authorized to work in the United States to present more documents than legally required to establish their work eligibility. Morton’s fired the workers after it rejected their valid Social Security cards […]

SILVER SPRING, Md.–(USNewswire)–The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today warned consumers about a potentially harmful product represented as “Generic Tamiflu” sold over the Internet. FDA tests revealed that the fraudulent product does not contain Tamiflu’s active ingredient, oseltamivir, but cloxacillin, an ingredient in the same class of antibiotics as penicillin. The agency reminds patients who […]

GREENBELT, Md.–A federal grand jury has indicted Scott Smallwood, 27, of Upper Marlboro, Md., on seven counts of sexual exploitation of a minor to produce child pornography. The arrest was announced by U. S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein, Special Agent in Charge William Winter of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement […]

ALABAMA–Omid Khalili, an Iranian national, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama to attempting to illegally export fighter jet or military aircraft parts from the United States to Iran. The guilty plea was announced by David Kris, Assistant Attorney General for National Security; Kenyen R. Brown, U.S. Attorney for […]

NEW YORK–A federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York has returned a 10-count indictment charging Faisal Shahzad for allegedly driving a car bomb into Times Square on the evening of May 1, the Justice Department announced today. Shahzad, 30, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Pakistan, was taken into custody at John […]

GRAND ISLE, La.–(USNewswire)– As this year’s Atlantic hurricane season gets underway, aid group World Vision warns the Gulf Coast’s most vulnerable children and families face additional hardships from the massive oil spill and ongoing weak economy. “If storm surges carry the oil slick inland, we have a potential health threat for children and families,” said […]

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – U. S. Attorney Loretta E. Lynch announced today four separate indictments charging 17 individuals for their participation in health care fraud and money laundering schemes in the Eastern District of New York. In addition, agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the FBI and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) searched offices of […]