News from December 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a West St. Louis, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to robbing First Federal Bank in North Kansas City, Mo.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Dr. Coburn provided the following opening statement before the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the nomination of Alejandro Mayorkas for the position of Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark, N.J. man today admitted committing two armed robberies of commercial establishments in Essex County, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Owen’s brother previously sentenced in Oct. to almost 11 years in prison for his part in crack distribution scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: SAN JOSE - Zahid and Riffat Ali, who have been wanted by federal authorities on bank fraud charges since 1996, surrendered to agents of the FBI at San Francisco International Airport yesterday when their flight from Pakistan arrived. This morning, they pleaded guilty in federal court in San Jose to bank fraud, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that HOWE'S PHARMACY of Milford and NELSON'S PHARMACY of Naugatuck have each entered into a...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today applauded Canada Post, the Canadian postal service, for moving to phase out expensive to-the-door delivery for paper mail. Chairman Issa, chief sponsor of H.R. 2748, the Postal Reform Act of 2013, has advanced similar reforms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: D.C. Air and Seafood To Pay $520,371 in Restitution.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Pipestone, MN: Superintendent Glen Livermont announced, "Due to the upcoming federal holidays, the Monument Visitor Center will be closed on December 25th, 2013 and January 1st, 2014." The Pipestone Indian Shrine Association gift shop, located at the Visitor Center, will also be closed on the same days.
By State Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, inserted the following statement today into the record on full Committee hearing “Afghanistan 2014: Year of Transition.".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on December 9, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, JEREMY T. LAUZON, a 34-year-old resident of Billings, was sentenced to a term of.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) held a business meeting to consider the nomination of Alejandro N. Mayorkas, President Obama’s nominee to be Deputy Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security. A selection of Chairman Carper’s statement follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: TYRONNE STEVENSON aka “Duke", 23, and MARK GLENN, 26, both residents of New Orleans, were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr. for violating federal RICO, drug conspiracy, firearms conspiracy, and attempted murder charges, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr. Both...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A Mattapan man was charged today with possession and distribution of child pornography.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today advanced a package of bipartisan, commonsense bills that will collectively help improve public health, cut red tape, and encourage energy development. The committee approved the following bills by voice vote...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 21 indictments charging 22 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 Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 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 Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz regarding DOE’s intentions to comply with two recent court decisions by the U.S. Court of...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today kicked off debate on H.R. 2019, the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act. This bill would redirect wasteful spending on political conventions to important, scientific, pediatric research. H.R. 2019 was introduced by committee member Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) in April.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: "It’s great to be back at the Center for American Progress, a real intellectual center of progressive policy development.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the owner of an Independence, Mo., business has been indicted by a federal grand jury for failing to report more than $1.2 million in business income on her income tax returns.
