News from April 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), Ranking Member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s ruling to not approve opioid drug applications reliant upon previous approvals which did not require abuse-deterrent properties...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: BOISE - David Jay Wheeler, 70, formerly of Declo, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Boise to 96 months in prison followed by ten years of supervised release for possession of sexually explicit images of minors, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Wheeler to pay $2,219.47 in restitution on behalf of a child victim and forfeit property used to commit the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: Date: April 17, 2013. Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. WARREN, Ohio - Nineteen separate federal indictments were unsealed today, charging 55 people with various violations of federal narcotics and/or firearms laws in and around Warren, Ohio, law enforcement officials announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: Radio communications can be unreliable in underground tunnels and other large, complicated structures, posing a safety hazard for emergency responders. New tests of wireless emergency safety equipment by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have defined the challenges more precisely and suggest how emergency communications might be improved.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: The Mound Science and Energy Museum (MSEM) owes its success to dedicated volunteers and supporters. The MSEM currently has 40 active volunteers and 200 dues-paying members.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: A former Associate Superintendent and Acting CFO of Pontiac Schools was sentenced today to 12 months in federal prison followed by one year home confinement, three years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution to Pontiac Schools in the amount of $336,000 after having been convicted of one count of defrauding a program receiving federal funding, announced United States Attorney Barbara McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: A husband and wife have been sentenced to federal prison April 17, 2013, for their roles in a bank robbing conspiracy that included four banks.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee today passed the Helping Sick Americans Now Act (H.R. 1549) by a vote of 27 to 20. The legislation, introduced this week by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) and Vice Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), along with Rep. Ann...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced legislation to build the Keystone XL pipeline. H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval Act, will put an end to years of bureaucratic delays and finally allow construction of the project that would create thousands of American jobs and displace overseas imports with millions of barrels of safe and secure Canadian oil supplies. The committee approved the measure by a bipartisan vote of 30 to 18.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Willy Valentin, 27, of Manchester, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 37 months in prison after pleading guilty to two counts of distribution of heroin, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK), Ranking Member on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s ruling to not approve opioid drug applications reliant upon previous approvals which did not require abuse-deterrent properties...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: MOHAMMED SAMEER AHMED, age 36, a resident of Kenner, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kurt D. Engelhardt to a one-count bill of information for trafficking in counterfeit goods, announced U.S. Attorney Dana Boente.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 36 indictments charging 31 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: In Waco this afternoon, 62-year-old Michael Bartch, Sr., was sentenced to two years in federal prison for a scheme to resell millions of dollars worth of U.S. military property stolen from Fort Hood and other U.S. military installations announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Steve McCollough.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Miami Field Office, Linda Swacina, District Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: GUNNISON, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Gunnison Field Office is planning a prescribed burn in the Gold Basin area as early as Thursday, Apr. 18, or as conditions allow through the end of spring 2013. The 150-acre prescribed burn is located nine miles south of Gunnison off Saguache County Road...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: FLORENCE - A federal jury late Tuesday convicted a Pinson man and member of an anti-government Sovereign Citizens group for mailing a fictitious financial instrument to pay off his home mortgage, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced legislation to build the Keystone XL pipeline. H.R. 3, the Northern Route Approval Act, will put an end to years of bureaucratic delays and finally allow construction of the project that would create thousands of American jobs and displace overseas imports with millions of barrels of safe and secure Canadian oil supplies. The committee approved the measure by a bipartisan vote of 30 to 18.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today unanimously approved bipartisan legislation to affirm the policy of the United States regarding Internet governance. The legislation (H.R. 1580 ), which was approved by voice vote, will promote a global Internet...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) today introduced H.R. 1582, the Energy Consumers Relief Act, a bill to protect consumers by increasing transparency for major EPA regulations that may drive up energy costs. The legislation will require that before EPA finalizes any new energy-related rules estimated...
