News from April 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Speaker: This week, you released to the press a partisan Republican staff report suggesting that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lied under oath when she testified before Congress that she did not personally approve of security reductions in Benghazi. Your decision to abandon regular...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded committee member Gregg Harper’s (R-MS) work to support pediatric health care. Rep. Harper today formally introduced the Kids First Research Act, along with Tom Cole (R-OK), in recognition of Autism Awareness Month.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on “Securing our Nation’s Prescription Drug Supply Chain" and discussed bipartisan draft legislation to secure the pharmaceutical supply chain. The draft legislation would enhance the security of the pharmaceutical...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Jeffery S. Adams, 41, of Hudgins, Va., was sentenced today to 180 days home confinement with electronic monitoring, followed by three years of probation for violating the Lacey Act by trafficking in illegally-harvested striped bass. Adams’ corporation, Adams Fishing Adventures, Inc....
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 32-year-old woman incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institute in Waseca, Minnesota, pleaded guilty to stealing more than $23,000 in Social Security benefits. Nefertiti Randall specifically pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government money or property. Randall, who was indicted on Jan. 22, 2013, entered her plea before United States District Court Judge John R. Tunheim.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that TARULUS GLASS, also known as “Dred," 39, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today applauded committee member Gregg Harper’s (R-MS) work to support pediatric health care. Rep. Harper today formally introduced the Kids First Research Act, along with Tom Cole (R-OK), in recognition of Autism Awareness Month.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - James Light, 65, of Rogersville, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 150 months in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, by the Honorable Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge. Light pleaded guilty in December 2012 to conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of West Decatur, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 36 months in prison with 10 years supervised release, required to register as a sex offender, and ordered to pay restitution of $1,000 on his conviction of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - After collecting more than 1,000 tons of expired, unwanted prescription medications at previous events over the past three years, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and its national, tribal, and community partners will hold a sixth National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day across the country on Saturday, April 27th. Collection sites are open 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. local time. The service is free and anonymous, no questions asked.
By State Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the Obama Administration’s confirmation of evidence that the Assad regime in Syria has used chemical weapons...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Anne M. Tompkins Western District Of North Carolina.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today wrote to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an analysis of the costs and liabilities associated with the Obama administration’s...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today wrote to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an analysis of the costs and liabilities associated with the Obama administration’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Cranberry Township, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of bank fraud and mail fraud, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Brian Woodings, 26, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty by a jury today of six counts of assault with intent to kill while armed and numerous other charges for his role in a shooting that targeted victims who were riding in two cars in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Hundreds of union construction workers took to the streets of Washington, D.C. yesterday to urge President Obama to approve the job-creating Keystone XL pipeline. American workers have waited over four-and-half-years for a decision on this project that will create thousands of good-paying...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Sens. Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and Mark Udall (D-CO) introduced legislation to change the Senate rules to ensure lawmakers have necessary information available to identify all similar existing federal programs before creating new initiatives. This legislation would require...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on April 25, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Richard F. Cebull, MARTIN LEE ROMAN NOSE, a 23-year-old resident of Ashland and an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, pled guilty to sexual abuse of a minor. A sentencing date will be set at a later time. He is currently detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Jerod Oliverius, age 25 of Lincoln, Nebraska, was sentenced on April 25, 2013, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 3 years in prison by United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for possession of child pornography. After his release from prison, Oliverius will be required to serve a 5 year term of supervised release and be registered as a sex offender.
