News from December 2013
By Commerce News Now | Dec 11, 2013
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 11, 2013
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Dec. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Ocala, Florida - U.S. Magistrate Judge Philip R. Lammens yesterday sentenced Thomas W. Harter, D.M.D., (49, Ocala) to three years in federal prison for six misdemeanor counts of failure to file income tax returns. The court also ordered Harter to pay $438,384 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), an amount representing the tax loss from his crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Renea I. Windham, of Oklahoma City, was sentenced today to eight months in federal prison for making a forged security and filing a false tax return in connection with her embezzlement of more than $140,000 from a metro electrical contracting business, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Republican leaders on the House Education and the Workforce Committee today released a letter seeking feedback from the American people about the effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on the nation’s education system. The letter is the committee’s latest effort to examine the impact of the health care law on K-12 schools, universities, and colleges.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after the United States Senate confirmed Rep. Mel Watt (D-N.C.) to be the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA):
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today to consider John Koskinen’s nomination to be the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said that the next IRS commissioner must work diligently to ensure the agency moves past the controversy over alleged political targeting to take on its numerous other responsibilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Postal Carrier is Sentenced to Federal Probation, Resigns from Job and Agrees to Pay Restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Warrensburg, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography. Michael J. Craney, 48, of Warrensburg...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Brooklyn, N.Y., man was sentenced today to 65 months in prison for his involvement in a plot to burglarize a pharmacy in Marlboro Township, N.J., and sell the stolen narcotics for cash, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A seventeen-count federal indictment charging eight members and associates of the Varrio South Park (“VSP") gang was returned by the Grand Jury on Dec. 10, 2013 and unsealed today in federal court, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Phillip Monroe Ballard, 72, of Fort Worth, has been convicted in the attempted murder for hire of a federal judge in Texas, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas. The verdict was returned this afternoon after approximately two days of trial and less than an hour of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted 11 individuals on charges related to a conspiracy to traffic over $6.6 million in contraband cigarettes. The indictment was returned on Dec. 3, 2013, and unsealed today upon the arrest of eight defendants and the execution of twelve search warrants.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced JASON LEMAR MEDLYN, 31, of Durham, North Carolina, to 240 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE -John Charles McCluskey, 48, will receive a life prison sentence for a host of crimes arising out of the carjacking and murder of a couple from Tecumseh, Okla., after a federal jury today announced that it could not reach a unanimous decision on whether to impose the death penalty, announced...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - On Wednesday, Dec. 11, John Mehlhoff, Bureau of Land Management Colorado Acting State Director, presented the BLM Colorado Volunteer of the Year Award to Marty Costos from the Anasazi Heritage Center.
