News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on April 1, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, JUNE LEE WOLVERINE, a 33-year-old resident of Browning, appeared for sentencing. WOLVERINE was sentenced to a term of.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today previewed the subcommittee’s focus for the panel’s upcoming hearing to examine the deadly meningitis outbreak, which has resulted in 53 deaths...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of April 15, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday, the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hear from FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg to examine the facts surrounding the deadly meningitis...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Burn Rescheduled for Monday, April 15, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tyrone Edmondson, 40, of Temple Hills, Md., has pled guilty to charges stemming from a series of recent break-ins of Northwest Washington homes, including one on Christmas, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Ways and Means Committee today outlined additional details of a proposal to repeal the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system and replace it with a fair and stable system of physician payment in the Medicare program. On February...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Several Ohioans have been found guilty and sentenced for violating federal tax laws over the past few months, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Denise Rocawich, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the IRS-Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Patrick Mergen, 40, of Sewell, NJ, was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison for using a child to produce child pornography. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2012. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge Mitchell S. Goldberg ordered 10 years of supervised release, computer monitoring, no unsupervised contact with minors, and sex counseling.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: BO DUKES, 29, and EMILY DUKES, 29, husband and wife from Savannah, Georgia, pled guilty on Monday before United States District Court Judge William T. Moore, Jr. to conspiring to steal over $150,000 worth of property paid for by the Army.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Defendant Possessed For Distribution $200,000 Of Fentanyl - More Potent Than Heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) announced that the Committee will convene a series of hearings on entitlement reforms to protect and preserve Medicare and Social Security that have been identified by the President - either in his budget or in other recommendations...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Defendant Purchased Guns Destined For Violent Mexican Cartels.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: DENVER - U.S. Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Stephen Boyd announce the prosecution of several criminal tax offenders this week in the District of Colorado. As the deadline for filing tax returns is this Monday, federal officials remind citizens that it is important to file complete and accurate tax returns. Those who deliberately evade this obligation will be criminally prosecuted.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: LEXINGTON, KY - A Lexington man, who admitted downloading child pornography images over the internet, was sentenced to 103 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Catoctin Mountain Park Announces Spring Activities and Facility Schedules.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Daniel A. Vivas, 40, of Oklahoma City, Okla. was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for his role in a bank fraud conspiracy that caused more than $2.5 million in losses to various banks and mortgage lenders.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today previewed the subcommittee’s focus for the panel’s upcoming hearing to examine the deadly meningitis outbreak, which has resulted in 53 deaths...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: The U.S. House of Representatives today approved the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act (H.R. 1120). Sponsored by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), chair of the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, the legislation requires the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to cease all activity requiring a three member quorum until the legal uncertainty surrounding the board is appropriately resolved.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: James Overland of NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory and Muyin Wang of the NOAA Joint Institute for the Study of Atmosphere and Ocean offsite link at the University of Washington, looked at three methods of predicting when the Arctic will be nearly ice free in the summer. The work was published recently online offsite link in the American Geophysical Union publication Geophysical Research Letters.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today requested HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provide more information on the $54 million award to fund community groups to help individuals navigate the health care law’s exchanges. This latest request continues the committee’s aggressive oversight of the new health law’s spending, implementation, and impact.
