News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced today that David Joseph VonBargen, 50, of Fruitland, Idaho, was convicted by a federal jury of carrying and using firearms - Molotov cocktails - during and in relation to a federal crime of violence, conspiracy to maliciously use explosive materials, conspiracy to maliciously damage federal property, and theft of firearms.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Right now, the House is considering the Preventing Greater Uncertainty in Labor-Management Relations Act (H.R. 1120). The legislation responds to the ongoing legal chaos surrounding the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in the wake of President Obama's 2012 non-recess recess appointments by requiring the board to cease activity until the issues involving the current board are settled.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) issued the following statements after the President sent the formal notification letter to Congress of his intent to launch negotiations for a comprehensive trade and investment agreement with the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Christopher Wilson Obtained Approximately $143,000 To Which He Was Not Entitled.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ezra Griffith, 23, of Washington, D.C., has been found guilty by a jury of a federal weapons charge, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - John Brandon Rice, 25, most recently a resident of Abilene, Texas, appeared in federal court in Lubbock yesterday and pleaded guilty, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, to one count of failing to register as a sex offender. Rice, who is in custody, faces a maximum statutory...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Butler, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy and money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce 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 Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing on a new legislative proposal that would protect consumers by ensuring transparency and oversight of major EPA regulations that may drive up energy costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sean Carter, 22, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 24 years in prison on charges of second-degree murder while armed and assault with intent to kill stemming from a shooting in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: In celebration of National Park Week, all three Cochise county National Park Service (NPS) sites will offer special events and activities April 20-28, 2013. "Did You Know?" is the theme for this year's events that will take place in all 401 NPS sites across the nation, including Chiricahua National Monument...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement in response to a report released by the U.S. Treasury Department that highlights continued currency manipulation by China and other countries...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wanblee, South Dakota man convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on April 2, 2013 by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Defendant Sold Multiple Pounds Of Drugs And Sold To Those Without Medical Authorization.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement today regarding the Obama administration’s announcement concerning Japan’s possible entry into the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Loretta E. Lynch, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, today announced the unsealing of a civil complaint and the seizure of approximately $1,000,000 worth of food products from V.I.P. Foods, Inc. (“V.I.P.") pursuant to a warrant issued by United States District Judge Nicholas...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Superseding Indictment Also Includes Crack Cocaine Distribution, Firearms, And Robbery Charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, questioned Gina McCarthy, the nominee to head the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, about the agency's lack of transparency and tendency to create new, costly rules using backroom "sue-and-settle" deals.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage resident pled guilty yesterday in federal court to charges of possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute and felon in possession of firearms.
