News from October 2012
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2012
News Release: Dear Ms. Engelbrecht: I am writing to request information about the manner in which True the Vote and its affiliated organizations have been challenging the registration of thousands of legitimate voters based on insufficient, inaccurate, and faulty evidence. According to your website, the mission...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2012
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: The National Park Service will host a public meeting on the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the "Shoreline Restoration and Management Plan" for Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. The meeting will be at Sycamore Hall in Woodland Park, 2100 Willow Creek Road, Portage...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement after President Barack Obama signed S. 710, the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, into law. This new law will modernize the way the federal government and states...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - In response to an inquiry from Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), the Social Security Administration (SSA) today warned that drastic funding cuts proposed by the House of Representatives would dramatically impact service to beneficiaries and needlessly waste taxpayer dollars.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2012
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Andersonville National Historic Site, home of the National Prisoner of War Museum, seeks applicants for an annual grant program which will provide financial assistance to support original research and writing leading to interpretive works on the history...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement after President Barack Obama signed S. 710, the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, into law. This new law will modernize the way the federal government and states...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 5, 2012
News Release: Recent winter weather conditions in Glacier National Park have limited motorized vehicle access to Logan Pass. Due to icy road conditions, vehicle traffic is only allowed on the Going-to-the-Sun Road on the east side from St. Mary to the Jackson Glacier Overlook. It is anticipated the road will be open to Logan Pass once temperatures increase and road conditions change.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 5, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement after President Barack Obama signed S. 710, the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act, into law. This new law will modernize the way the federal government and states...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: ST. LOUIS - For the fifth time in two years, Americans emptied medicine cabinets, bedside tables, and kitchen drawers of unwanted, unused, and expired prescription drugs and took them to collection sites located throughout the United States as part of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) National...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed an agreement reached between the three major North Slope producers and a pipeline company to advance a liquefied natural gas project to export Alaskan gas to Pacific Rim countries.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and Amtrak President and CEO Joseph Boardman today announced a new partnership among the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of ...
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to Arizona tomorrow, Oct. 5, where she will be joined by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Deputy Commissioner David V. Aguilar and CBP Commander of Arizona Joint Field Command ...
By USDA Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 4, 2012 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding to modernize and improve the efficiency of rural electric generation and transmission systems. Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager made the announcement on Vilsack's behalf during a speech before ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – Persons living around the CITGO refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, who suffered immediate negative health effects from emissions from two large tanks at the facility that were operated between January 1994 and May 2003 in violation of the federal Clean Air Act, may be crime victims in United States v. CITGO Petroleum Corporation et al.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: Medicare Fraud Strike Force operations in seven cities have led to charges against 91 individuals – including doctors, nurses and other licensed medical professionals – for their alleged participation in Medicare fraud schemes involving approximately $429.2 million in false billing, Attorney General Eric Holder and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent decree between the United States and a company that operates fan club websites for popular recording artists such as Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez, the Justice Department announced today. The government’s complaint, filed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON – An Army National Guard soldier pleaded guilty today in the Western District of Texas for her role in a bribery and fraud scheme that caused approximately $54,000 in losses to the Army National Guard Bureau, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: Andrew Strempler, a Canadian citizen, pleaded guilty today in the Southern District of Florida for his role in a scheme to defraud consumers purchasing pharmaceuticals online, the Justice Department announced. Strempler faces up to five years in prison, a forfeiture of $300,000, a fine and restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: Paulo Morales, 48, of Miami, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robin S. Rosenbaum to 33 months in prison along with one year supervised release, the Justice Department announced. In July, Morales , a former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer, pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor counts of deprivation of rights under color of law.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 4, 2012
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement actions listed below: Northeast Securities Corporation, Minneapolis, Minnesota Written Agreement dated May 24, 2010 Terminated Oct. 1, 2012 TCSB Bancorp, Inc., Traverse City, Michigan Written Agreement dated December 6, 2010 Terminated Sept. 27, 2012 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions.
