News from June 2011
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today urged the U.S. Department of Agriculture to continue building on past reforms that she helped author in the 2008 Farm Bill and to go further to crack down on fraud ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2011
News Release: BEAUMONT, TX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Thomas E. Hinojosa and U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced that two Houston men have been sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a major drug trafficking conspiracy. The sentencing hearings were held by U.S. District Judge Ron Clark in the Eastern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2011
News Release: Park Makes Transition to Limited Continuous Searching After Nearly One Week.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders from the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius demanding more information on whether the administration was aware that millions of middle class Americans could qualify for, and in some cases be forced...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Cliff Stearns (R-FL) is demanding answers and cooperation from Office of Management and Budget Director Jacob Lew regarding an ongoing investigation of a stimulus loan guarantee awarded to Solyndra, Inc.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2011
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that the U.S. and its partners in the International Energy Agency have decided to release a total of 60 million barrels of oil onto the world market over the next 30 days to offset the disruption in the oil supply caused by unrest in the...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 23, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved legislation to create jobs and reduce our dependence on OPEC oil. The North American-Made Energy Security Act (H.R. 1938) passed the committee with bipartisan support by a vote of 33 to 13.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, in response to the United States Postal Service (USPS) announcement that they will stop making employer’s contributions for the defined benefit portion of the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) for their employees, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif. issued the following statement...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C.- The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing today to receive testimony on a controversial and potentially unconstitutional Republican bill to privatize Amtrak that would put it out of business by auctioning off its assets to the highest bidder.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary Contact: 202-282-8010 THE NETHERLANDS—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today visited the Netherlands to meet with her international counterparts to discuss strengthening collaboration to secure the global supply chain and tour operations ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Nacogdoches, Texas, man has been sentenced to life in federal prison for his role in a double homicide that took place in Nacogdoches in August 2007, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON - Raymone Bain, a public relations specialist and the former general manager of the late pop star Michael Jackson, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Washington, D.C., to charges that she failed to file federal and District of Columbia income tax returns, the Justice Department, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: Washington, D.C. – The Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today launched the website Crimesolutions.gov. This new site is a central, credible resource to inform practitioners and policymakers about what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services. The ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Bobby Joe Knapp, the former owner and operator of the Equitable Building in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James E. Gritzner to 41 months in prison for conspiring to violate the Clean Air Act and the Clean Air Act’s asbestos work practice standards for his role during the renovation of more than 10 floors of the building between 2005 and 2008.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today the Department of Justice and the FBI, along with international law enforcement partners, announced the indictment of two individuals from Latvia and the seizure of more than 40 computers, servers and bank accounts as part of Operation Trident Tribunal, an ongoing, coordinated enforcement ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Kenneth H. Nix and Velma I. Salinas-Nix, both of Boerne, Texas, were indicted by a federal grand jury in San Antonio on a multi-count indictment alleging tax fraud and false statements to the U.S. government, the Justice Department announced today. The Nixes were charged with one count ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – Two owners of a Houston health care company pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme to defraud Medicare of more than $800,000, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Belarusian national and resident of Nantucket, Mass., was sentenced today in federal court to 41 months in prison for his participation in an international online scheme to steal income tax refunds from U.S. taxpayers around the country, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – An owner of a Houston health care company pleaded guilty today to committing health care fraud and making false statements relating to health care matters, announced the Departments of Justice and Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2011
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department today filed papers seeking to intervene in Steward, et al. v. Perry, et al., a case filed on behalf of thousands of Texans with developmental disabilities to enforce their right under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to receive services provided by the state in the most integrated setting appropriate to their needs.
