News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: GM-Southwest, Former CEO, Accused Of Overstating Amount Of Claims Paid By More Than $9 Million.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “A Continuing Investigation Into the Fungal Meningitis Outbreak and Whether It Could Have Been Prevented." Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg will testify.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) today released the following statement after President Obama announced three nominations for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) the top Republican on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, today introduced the Offshore Fairness Act, which would extend the offshore jurisdiction for states from Louisiana to Virginia from three miles to ten miles. Currently Texas and the East Coast ...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), and Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, called on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) Chairman, Dr. Allison Macfarlane, to immediately ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - One of the leaders of a drug trafficking organization operating on Cape Cod was sentenced yesterday to serve 25 years in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “A Continuing Investigation Into the Fungal Meningitis Outbreak and Whether It Could Have Been Prevented." Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg will testify.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eric Thomas Valley, 42, pleaded guilty this morning to a domestic assault by a habitual offender charge under a plea agreement that requires him to serve a 40 month federal prison sentence. Valley’s guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., Special Agent in Charge of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services, and Police Chief Vincent M. Mariano of the Acoma Tribal Police Department.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: “For all of the hard-working scientists, researchers and engineers at NOAA, receiving this award is a high honor coming from such a distinguished organization," MacDonald said. “NOAA will continue to stay true to its mission of protecting lives and property, while helping to increase our understanding of the dynamic changes occurring within Earth's environment."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a former physician at a Bolivar, Mo., health clinic has pleaded guilty in federal court to illegally distributing prescription drugs.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 16, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “A Continuing Investigation Into the Fungal Meningitis Outbreak and Whether It Could Have Been Prevented." Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg will testify.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - An innovative oil-upgrading technology that can increase the economics of unconventional petroleum resources has been developed under a U.S. Department of Energy -funded project.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. An Oklahoma man was sentenced Wednesday to a year on federal probation for selling feathers from eagles and hawks covered by a federal law protecting migratory birds, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, N.J., woman today admitted making false statements to special agents of Homeland Security Investigations, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: Summer Field Research Course in Yosemite National Park Builds Future Scientists and Leaders.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: National Park Week April 20 - April 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Platte City, Mo., contractor has been sentenced in federal court for his role in a nearly $900,000 bid-rigging conspiracy that involved several contractors.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 9, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today announced new staff in the Committee’s communications office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: BLUEFIELD, W.Va. -A Bluefield man who admitted to shooting a confidential police informant was sentenced on April 8 to ten years in federal prison on illegal firearm charges. Shawn T. Anderson, 36, of Bluefield, W.Va., previously pleaded guilty in October 2012 to carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets (“OFAC") today announced the designation of Honduran national Jose Miguel Handal (a.k.a. “Chepe Handal"), as a Specially Designated...
