BY LINDA BENTLEY | SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
Mary Rose Wilcox is at it again
PHOENIX – On Aug. 28, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox had Richard de Uriarte, communications manager for the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, send out a press release on her official Maricopa County letterhead and use a county e-mail list to call for an activists’ protest on behalf of the Black/Brown Coalition.
BY LINDA BENTLEY | SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
Three arrested in state’s largest-ever food stamp fraud enterprise
PHOENIX – On Aug. 29, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne announced the arrests of Kameel Sweiss, 51, Ameer Sweis, 22, and Faday Sweiss, 33, all of whom worked at K&S convenience store at 6116 N. 27th Ave. in Phoenix for illegally conducting an enterprise, fraudulent schemes and artifices, money laundering, unlawful use of food stamps and computer tampering.
BY LINDA BENTLEY | SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
Bashas’ Inc. enters non-prosecution agreement over meat mislabeling
Bashas’ agreed to disgorge the $1.5 million from sales it derived from its misconduct in the form of restitution payments to area food banks
PHOENIX – Last week, John Leonardo, U.S. Attorney for the District of Arizona, announced Bashas’ Inc., a family-owned Arizona corporation that operates over 100 grocery stores in Arizona, California and New Mexico, including AJ’s Fine Foods, has agreed to execute a non-prosecution agreement (NPA) over meat mislabeling practices at certain AJ’s locations between January 2010 and February 2012.
bY LINDA BENTLEY | SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
IRS to recognize same-sex marriage for federal tax purposes
WASHINGTON – On Aug. 29, in light of the June 26, 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision to invalidate a key provision of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, the U.S. Department of the Treasury ruled that same-sex couples, legally married in jurisdictions that recognize their marriages, will be treated as married for federal tax purposes.
Trial circulation plan scheduled for Downtown Scottsdale
A month-long trial of a one-way traffic circulation plan begins today, Sept. 4, in Downtown Scottsdale in an effort to improve safety and circulation.
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
Thank you to our readers as support for Packages From Home continues
NORTH VALLEY – Last week Packages from Home donations from around the north Valley were picked up by Sanderson Ford and Lincoln and delivered to Packages From Home on the Phoenix Memorial Healthcare Center in South Phoenix.
