News from September 2012
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Three defendants were indicted today for their involvement in a large marijuana cultivation operation in Squaw Valley, Calif., Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Anthony D. Williams and U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Kevin L. Lane, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Brigitte Jones, 49, of the Bronx, N.Y., formerly a Transportation Security Administration...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today praised the House of Representatives for passing H.J. Res 118, a Resolution of Disapproval, reversing the Obama Administration’s unilateral decision to undermine welfare work requirements that are an essential component of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: ANCHORAGE, Alaska - On Sept. 14, 2012, Daniel Isaac Meza, 37, was sentenced to 210 months in prison for his leading role in a conspiracy to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine, one kilogram of heroin, more than 50 grams of actual methamphetamine, and a quantity of oxycodone. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy M. Burgess imposed the sentence, which also included a $13,500 fine.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives approved with bipartisan support H.J.Res. 118, a resolution disapproving of the Obama administration’s attempt to roll back key welfare reforms...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Three Jackson men appeared in federal court today on various drug charges as the result of an extensive investigation targeting illegal narcotics distribution in the City of Jackson, announced Jimmy S. Fox III, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New Orleans Field Division and U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: Two brothers driving a flatbed tow truck carrying a blue Honda Prelude exited the Kennedy Expressway at Armitage Avenue where they failed to stop at a red light about 7:20 p.m. on March 5 of this year. Chicago police officers stopped the tow truck near the intersection of Armitage and Wolcott avenues...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: The 19th Annual Big South Fork 17.5 Mile and 10k Trail Race will be held on Sept. 29, 2012, beginning at 8:30 a.m. (Eastern Time). The foot race will start and end at the Bandy Creek Trailhead and utilize a portion of the John Litton/General Slaven Trail, the Fall Branch connector trail, and the Grand Gap Loop Trail. Due to the high amount of foot traffic, the Grand Gap Loop Trail will be closed to bicycle riders until noon on September 29.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: HAGATNA, Guam - A 70-year-old female bar owner was sentenced in federal court Thursday to life in prison for her involvement in a sex trafficking scheme that forced young women and one juvenile girl into prostitution.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: The U.S. House of Representatives is currently considering legislation to block the Obama administration's attempt to waive the work requirements of the bipartisan welfare reform law. While leading debate on the House floor, Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) urged his colleagues to preserve successful welfare reforms and reject the president's executive overreach by supporting H.J.Res. 118.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: “Missing from the public debate has been the wiretap applications themselves, which are under court seal. Issa obtained the documents despite the seal. Issa plans to challenge Democrats on the Oversight panel on whether they have taken the opportunity to review them and, if they have, whether they agree with Holder and Cummings about the contents of the applications." - Roll Call, 6/18/2012
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: Washington, DC - Following yesterday’s announcement that the President approved West Virginia’s appeal for Individual Assistance for those hardest hit by the June 29 Derecho storm, the House of Representatives has approved legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.) that would require FEMA to reassess how it evaluates requests for Individual Assistance following future disasters.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing entitled, “Assessing College Data: Helping to Provide Valuable Information to Students, Institutions, and Taxpayers." In preparation for the next reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), the hearing explored whether the federal higher education data collection system is appropriately serving students, taxpayers, and institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and U.S. Attorney Robert E. O'Neill for the Middle District of Florida, announced yesterday that a federal jury found Jose Manuel (41, Orlando) and Julian (45, Miami) guilty of conspiracy to possess...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following remarks during a joint Senate Finance and House Ways and Means Committee hearing on tax reform and the tax treatment of capital gains...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Robert E. O’Neill, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced yesterday that U.S. District Judge William J. Castagna sentenced Demetrius Gregory (34, Tampa) to 30 years...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and other House Democrats today introduced the Tar Sands Tax Loophole Elimination Act to close yet another tax loophole given to the oil industry, this time giving tar sands oil a free ride from paying into an oil spill response and cleanup fund. Rep. Markey introduced...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: MANHATTAN -, NY. Wilbert L. Plummer, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Bridget G. Brennan, Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and James T. Hayes JR., Special Agent in Charge...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 20, 2012 - H.R. 5987, a bill to establish the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, was brought to the House floor today under “suspension of House rules." This “suspension" process allows for an expedited and abbreviated process for considering and voting on bills.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 20, 2012
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa released a new staff report entitled, “The Federal Government’s Failure to Prevent and End Medicaid Overpayments," which examines outrageous abuses of federal tax dollars within the Medicaid program, specifically...
