News from April 2012
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: Oil and natural gas development on the public’s land and the public’s mineral estate provides an economic driver for Colorado’s economy, with 22,912 Colorado jobs supported by energy and mineral development on Colorado’s public lands, generating $4.9 billion in economic activity last year.Roughly 90...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: I am writing to request that you invite Daniel Tangherlini, the new Acting Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), to testify at the Committee’s hearing on April 16, 2012, relating to the GSA Inspector General’s findings of waste and misconduct in connection with...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has imposed sanctions on a produce business for failure to pay a reparation award issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: Homestead National Monument of America will uncover the "Quilt Discovery Experience" on Saturday, April 28, 2012. Wrap yourself up in the history of America as it is seen through the eyes of a quilter. Quilts are unique accounts of history. The Homestead "Quilt Discovery Experience" is made up of twenty...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Obama administration has helped to right historical wrongs with dozens of tribes by settling cases over government mismanagement of tribal resources and lands, Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) said today. Rep. Markey, who is the top Democrat on the Natural Resources Committee, released the following statement about the $1 billion settlement between the U.S. government and more than 40 tribes...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 11, 2012 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today issued a to the Department of the Interior’s (DOI’s) Office of the Inspector General (IG) for 13 documents that DOI has intervened and blocked the IG from releasing to the Committee. The subpoena...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The National Park Service is investigating a human body that has been found on the Lake Michigan shoreline. The body was found in the eastern portion of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore near the 600 block of Lake Front Drive.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor has announced that URS Corporation and a joint venture between HDR Inc. and CDM Smith have been awarded Architectural-Engineering Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity Contracts to support Reclamation's mission pertaining to planned or existing...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Documents recently gathered from the General Services Administration in response to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s investigation into DOE’s $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra reveal that former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson was scheduled to visit Solyndra on October...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Documents recently gathered from the General Services Administration in response to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s investigation into DOE’s $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra reveal that former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson was scheduled to visit Solyndra on October...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: AGOURA HILLS, Calif. - Discover the national park right in your backyard, at the third annual National Park Service Science Festival. The event and parking are free and open to the public. The hours are 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. on Friday, April 27th, and 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 28th at Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills, Calif.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 11, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Documents recently gathered from the General Services Administration in response to the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s investigation into DOE’s $535 million loan guarantee to Solyndra reveal that former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson was scheduled to visit Solyndra on October...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 10, 2012
News Release: BioPreferred® Program designates thirteen new Biobased Product Categories More than 1500 additional biobased products now eligible for preferred Federal purchasing WASHINGTON, April 10, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the addition of 13 biobased product categories which are eligible ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2012
News Release: Tenet Healthcare Corporation has agreed to pay the United States $42.75 million to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by overbilling the federal Medicare program, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice has seized more than $896,000 in proceeds from the distribution of counterfeit sports apparel and jerseys as the result of an investigation into the sale of counterfeit goods on commercial websites, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Pakistani citizen was sentenced yesterday in the District of Columbia to 31 months in prison on a human smuggling charge announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division; U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. for the District of Columbia; John Morton, Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE); and John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Miami Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division issued the following statement today after announcing the closing of its investigation into Highmark’s affiliation agreement with West Penn Allegheny Health System (WPAHS). Highmark is the Blue Cross and Blue Shield licensee in western Pennsylvania ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2012
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder presented the 2012 John Sherman Award to James F. Rill for his lifetime contributions to the development and enforcement of antitrust law and the advancement of antitrust policy internationally. Rill served as an Assistant Attorney General for the department’s Antitrust Division from 1989 to 1992 and is currently a partner at Baker Botts LLP in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2012
News Release: German A. Posada was sentenced to 18 months in prison following a guilty plea to charges of filing a false 2004 individual income tax return and making a false statement in a bankruptcy proceeding, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 10, 2012
News Release: Troy A. Beam of Shippensburg, Pa., was sentenced today to 74 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Christopher C. Conner, the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. On May 4, 2011, a federal jury in the Middle District of Pennsylvania convicted Beam of tax evasion, obstructing ...
