News from April 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Yusaf Jawed, 44, Portland, Oregon, entered a guilty plea in federal court to five counts of mail fraud and 12 counts of wire fraud in connection with an investment fraud scheme he orchestrated in Oregon, Washington, California, and other states. Sentencing has been scheduled for June 21, 2013 at 10:30 a.m.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., April 16, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement after President Obama released the final implementation plan for the National Ocean Policy and mandatory ocean zoning initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: Starks failed to report more than half a million dollars of income on her taxes.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Ranking Member Nick J. Rahall, II (D-WV) today announced the members of a special panel tasked with examining the current state of freight transportation in the United States and how improving freight transportation can strengthen the U.S. economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A medical doctor who owns a cosmetic medicine clinic in the Winnetka district of the San Fernando Valley has been sentenced to 42 months in federal prison for bilking Medicare out of more than $3 million by submitting bills for procedures he never performed.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on April 15, 2013, Luis Orta Espinoza, age 27 of Lincoln, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months (151 months) in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana between June of 2008 and April of 2012. Following the prison term, Orta Espinoza will serve five years on supervised release.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) and Vice Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), along with Rep. Ann Wagner (R-MO), this week introduced the Helping Sick Americans Now Act (H.R. 1549), which would immediately help provide health care coverage to individuals with pre-existing...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: David B. Fein, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL SARNO, 54, of Enfield, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to five years of probation for mailing numerous threatening letters.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today advanced a bipartisan legislative solution to eliminate the bureaucratic hurdles blocking construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and allow this landmark jobs and energy project to move forward. H.R. 3, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Clearfield, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing to examine the deadly meningitis outbreak, which has resulted in 53 lost lives and over 700 individuals sickened. With FDA internal documents revealing FDA had numerous opportunities...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and every fellow Republican on the Committee, today followed up on the five transparency concerns they have with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a letter to Gina McCarthy, nominee to head the Agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 44-year-old Terrell, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, today introduced the bipartisan North American Wetlands Conservation Extension Act (NAWCA), which would reauthorize the program to protect and restore wetlands in all 50 states through 2017. Authorization for the program expired at the end of fiscal year 2012.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking nominations to serve on the Cattlemen’s Beef Board.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Francisco “Pancho" Delgado-Galaviz, 36, of Mexico and a member of a drug trafficking organization based out of Vermilion Parish, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 10 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today advanced a bipartisan legislative solution to eliminate the bureaucratic hurdles blocking construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and allow this landmark jobs and energy project to move forward. H.R. 3, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: Alexandria, Va. - Parker Drilling Company, a publicly listed drilling-services company, headquartered in Houston, has agreed to pay an $11.76 million penalty to resolve charges related to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) for authorizing payment to an intermediary, knowing that the payment would...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: EMINENCE MO: Ozark National Scenic Riverways announces the reopening of the staircase into Devils Well for visitor viewing."The repair of the stairwell is complete and visitors are able to descend into the Devil Wells for a firsthand look at this geological wonder," said Superintendent Bill Black.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 16, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for trafficking in methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
