News from February 2011
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2011
News Release: Beckley, West Virginia. -30-
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 11, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation and the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment today held a joint oversight hearing to examine the recommendations from the members of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2011
News Release: HSGAC Chairman Joe Lieberman, ID-Conn. HSGAC Ranking Member Susan Collins, R-Me. OGR Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif. OGR Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, D-Md. OGM Subcommittee Chairman Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii. What: Press Conference to Release newest GAO “High Risk Series" Report. Where: HVC-210, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today passed four pieces of health care legislation: the Protect Life Act, H.R. 358 ; the Veterinary Public Health Workforce and Education Act, H.R. 525 ; the Neglected Infections of Impoverished Americans Act, H.R. 528 ; and the Dental Emergency Responder Act, H.R.570.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 11, 2011
News Release: Dear Secretary Sebelius: The United States Senate Committee on Finance (Committee) has jurisdiction over, among other things, the implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the federal health care programs. As Ranking Member of the Committee, I consider it part of my...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2011
News Release: COLUMBIA, SC. - United States Attorney Bill Nettles and Rodney G. Benson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) Atlanta Field Division, announced today that John Truman Poole, Jr, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, entered a guilty plea yesterday in federal court in Greenville, South Carolina, ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2011
News Release: Porter, IN- During a routine evening closure of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore’s Mt. Baldy parking area on Monday February 7th, a patrol ranger came upon an unoccupied 2003 Ford Windstar minivan in the lot after hours. A search of the trails in the immediate area was unsuccessful in locating the vehicle’s...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 11, 2011
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Two central California men face lengthy prison sentences following their conviction in unrelated child pornography cases investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).
By USDA Newswire | Feb 11, 2011
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack made the following statement regarding data released today showing that U.S. farm exports reached an all-time high of $115.8 billion in calendar year 2010.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 11, 2011
News Release: If you are just gaining skills to help you succeed in the world of work or if you are well along the path, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore has seasonal employment opportunities available for the summer of 2011. A national park is like a city with a university and there are an amazing collection of jobs...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
Release: Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 10, 2010 - USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon today joined Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Paul Davis, acting director of AmeriCorps VISTA, and Joel Berg, executive director of the New York City Coalition Against Hunger, to swear-in 46 members of the new National Anti-Hunger...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: EL PASO, TX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Joseph A. Arabit, Federal Bureau of (FBI) Special Agent in Charge David Cuthbertson and United States Attorney John E. Murphy announced the arrests of six individuals based on two federal grand jury indictments in connection with two major drug trafficking operations in the El Paso/Juarez corridor.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.) today is introducing legislation in the U.S. House to hold China accountable for the manipulation of its currency. U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) is introducing companion legislation in the Senate. A bipartisan group of members from the House and Senate announced the introduction at a press conference today. The House legislation has 101 Republican and Democratic co-sponsors.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Thierno M. Diallo of Cincinnati was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S District Court Judge Sandra Beckwith in Cincinnati for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. On Aug. 6, 2010, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The United States has sued David Champion of Pahrump, Nev., seeking to bar him from promoting an alleged tax fraud scheme designed to assist his customers evade paying federal taxes, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Tyson Foods Inc. has agreed to pay a $4 million criminal penalty to resolve an investigation into improper payments by company representatives to government-employed inspection veterinarians in Mexico, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division and James ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The owners and operators of a Brooklyn-area durable medical equipment (DME) company pleaded guilty yesterday to defrauding the Medicare program, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – CEMEX Inc., one of the largest producers of Portland cement in the United States, will spend an estimated $2 million on pollution controls that will reduce harmful emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2), pollutants that can lead to childhood asthma, acid rain, smog and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that Dalton Township, Mich., will pay $62,500 to settle a lawsuit alleging that the township discriminated against a group home for persons recovering from drug and alcohol addiction, in violation of the federal Fair Housing Act and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The settlement was approved today by Judge Gordon J. Quist of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A federal jury in the District of Columbia today convicted a former staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives on corruption charges relating to his acceptance of an all-expenses paid trip to Game One of the 2003 World Series , announced the Criminal Division and the FBI.
