News from December 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement after completion of a four-day Ministerial meeting in Singapore regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations...
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered the below statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s hearing on the transition in Afghanistan. The remarks follow:
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Defendant Beat Victim Leaving Lasting Injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a man from Carbon County pleaded guilty today before Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik to the charge of aiding and abetting the distribution of cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders, along with every Republican member of the Communications and Technology Subcommittee, today wrote to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler urging him to suspend the Federal Communications Commission’s efforts to conduct a field study that could lead to...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - United States Attorney Danny C. Williams, Sr., for the Northern District of Oklahoma announced today that a federal grand jury indicted two top members of the “Hoover Crips" street gang for the murder of a federal witness.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday sent letters to the Medicaid Directors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia regarding the status of their Medicaid programs and their current ability to care for their most vulnerable populations. The health care law’s expansion...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A 32-year-old man was indicted today by a federal grand jury sitting in Charleston for being a felon in possession of a firearm. According to a single-count indictment, Jon Paul Clements, of Charleston, W.Va., allegedly possessed a firearm on March 9, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that 16 individuals have been arrested following a lengthy investigation into drug trafficking in the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Oglala, South Dakota, man convicted of First Degree Burglary was sentenced on December 4, 2013, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday sent letters to the Medicaid Directors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia regarding the status of their Medicaid programs and their current ability to care for their most vulnerable populations. The health care law’s expansion...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Stanley J. Wardle, 65, of Spanish Fork, Utah, pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City to nine counts of filing false claims for income tax refunds, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Wardle, who was indicted on Feb. 15, 2012, is scheduled to be sentenced before U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on Feb. 27, 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: The 2014 winter season begins Sunday, December 15 in Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway. This year, as a cost saving measure, the Craig Thomas Discovery & Visitor Center will be closed until April 7, 2014. A phone line (307.739.3399) will be staffed Monday through...
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that tomorrow at 10 a.m., he will convene a hearing to examine the future of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan. At the hearing, entitled “Afghanistan 2014: Year of Transition," senior officials from the State Department, Department of Defense and USAID will testify.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Co-defendants Samantha Jo Tackitt and Michael Scott Longhi were sentenced in U.S. District Court to lengthy federal prison sentences for their involvement in a large scale Treasure Valley methamphetamine trafficking operation.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday sent letters to the Medicaid Directors in all 50 states and the District of Columbia regarding the status of their Medicaid programs and their current ability to care for their most vulnerable populations. The health care law’s expansion...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: TERRE HAUTE - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, announced today that Emery Norton, age 26, of Terre Haute, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Larry J. McKinney to 135 months (11 years, 3 months) in federal prison after admitting that he received child pornography. Hogsett said the sentencing...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) made the following statement today regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A defendant has been sentenced to 216 months in federal prison for his role in a methamphetamine trafficking organization that operated in the Kansas City metro area, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2013
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: Five federal defendants - ALECEIA LOVETT, CIERRA JOHNSON, KANDICE WHITE, DANIELLE CLARK, and SIRBRINA BANGS - pled guilty last week before United States District Court Judge B. Avant Edenfield in Statesboro, Georgia for their involvement in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme.
