News from March 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved the Medicare Decisions Accountability Act (H.R. 452), the Federal Communications Commission Process Reform Act (H.R. 3309), and the Federal Communications Commission Consolidated Reporting Act (H.R. 3310).
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 6, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Congressman Sam Farr (D-Carmel), Ranking Member of the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, made the following opening statement at the Department of Agriculture's Marketing and Regulatory Programs budget hearing.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 5, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that USDA is seeking applications for loans and grants to help rural businesses create jobs and spur economic development. The funding is being provided under the Rural Economic Development Loan and Grant (REDLG) program.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: Healthy, Hunger Free Kids Act sets the table for a healthy start to school each day WASHINGTON, March 5, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today marked National School Breakfast Week (March 5-9) by emphasizing the administration's commitment to provide schoolchildren with healthy, well-balanced meals to prepare them for a productive school day.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 5, 2012–Conservation advocates, sportsmen and agriculture groups have issued statements of support for the new 1-million-acre Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) initiative to preserve grasslands and wetlands announced on Friday by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. Vilsack highlighted ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: The Justice Department’s Consumer Protection Branch recovered more than $913 million in criminal and civil fines, penalties, and restitution in 2011, Tony West, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, announced today. In addition, the branch secured convictions of 37 defendants, obtained prison ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Italian-based shipping company Giuseppe Bottiglieri Shipping Company S.P.A., owner and operator of the Motor Vessel Bottiglieri Challenger, and Vito La Forgia, the vessel’s chief engineer, have been charged in a four-count indictment with the illegal dumping of waste oil and oil-contaminated waste water in violation of the Act to Prevent Pollution from Ships (APPS), conspiracy and two counts of obstruction of justice, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Jonathon Sudduth of Springfield, Ill., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips in Los Angeles to 22 years in prison and lifetime supervised release for conspiracy to advertise child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Cheng Yi Liang, a former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chemist from Gaithersburg, Md., was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for engaging in insider trading on multiple occasions based on material, non-public information he obtained in his capacity as an FDA scientist. Liang was previously ordered to forfeit $3.7 million representing the proceeds of the insider trading scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Joshua Wall, 20, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Baltimore for his involvement in hanging a dead raccoon from a noose on the porch of an African-American family.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Timothy Lee York, 35, of Fountain Valley, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 63 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release, after pleading guilty to violently assaulting a Jewish inmate at a federal correctional facility in Texas, the Justice Department announced today. York was also ordered to pay $5,783 in restitution and a $100 special assessment fee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Departments of Justice and Education, together with six private student plaintiffs and the Anoka-Hennepin School District, filed a proposed consent decree today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, resolving complaints of sex-based harassment of middle and high school ...
By DOT News Wire | Mar 5, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 5, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 5, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 5, 2012
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
The US Interior Department published a four page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2012
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Mar 5, 2012
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on March 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
