News from February 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and fellow EPW Committee Republicans joined in a letter today pressing Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, Lisa Jackson, for answers on the science behind these new air standards regulations and how they will impact states and localities and economic recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: MARCUS ANTIWAN DICKERSON, aka “DAWG," 35, a native of Vidalia, was sentenced Monday by Senior Judge B. Avant Edenfield to 25 years in prison for his role in a large-scale drug trafficking organization operating in the Vidalia, Georgia area.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Mario Hernandez Velazquez, 45, of Johnson City, Tenn., was sentenced on Feb. 7, 2013, by the Honorable Leon Jordan, U. S. District Court Judge, to serve 65 years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of Feb. 11, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday, the committee will reconvene its business meeting to consider the oversight plan for the 113th Congress. In hearings, the committee will...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: A new video series has been released by Everglades National Park's Environmental Education Program and a corresponding contest for educators is being held through March 1, 2013. The "Everglades Mountains and Valleys"video series, viewable at on the park's website atwww.nps.gov/ever/ photosmultimedia/ mountainsandvalleys.htm and on YouTube, was written and produced by videographer Jennifer Brown and the park's environmental education staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Keith Middaugh, 38, of Scio, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr., to a misdemeanor charge of violating the Federal Meat Inspection Act. The charge carries a maximum sentence of one year in prison, a fine of $100,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: RICHARD S. HARTUNIAN, United States Attorney, Northern District of New York, announces that DONALD JOHNSON, JR., age 25, of Syracuse, pled guilty this morning in U.S. District Court in Syracuse to an indictment which charged him and ten others with conspiring to exploit their membership in the V-NOT...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce announced its hearing and vote schedule for the week of Feb. 11, 2013. Beginning on Tuesday, the committee will reconvene its business meeting to consider the oversight plan for the 113th Congress. In hearings, the committee will...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 51-year-old Longview, Texas man has pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
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By DOJ Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on February 8, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, the following individuals were arraigned.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 8, 2013
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is seeking public comments to help identify issues associated with a proposed road maintenance and modifications project at Arches National Park. Comments will be used to help develop alternative resource protection options to be outlined in an Environmental Assessment (EA) analyzing the effects of conducting such improvements to the park road, pullouts and parking lots within the park.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - A federal jury today found Mowafak “Mike" Shahla (43), Antoun “Tony" Chahla (42), and Fadi Chahla (40), who are brothers, guilty of participating in a conspiracy to enter into marriages for the purpose of evading U.S. immigration laws, making false statements to U.S. Citizenship and...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2013--The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will release new 10-year agricultural projections on Feb. 11, 2013, at 11:00 a.m. EST. USDA's Agricultural Projections to 2022 will be posted to the Office of the Chief Economist's (OCE) website at www.usda.gov/oce and available in MS Word and PDF formats. Projections data will be available as Excel spreadsheets here.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: The United States has asked a federal court to shut down a tax-preparation office in Miami, the Justice Department announced today. The civil injunction suit, filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, alleges that Olivia Greene and Walter Jefferson of Miami prepare returns through Angel Tax Service with falsely-claimed credits, including fuel tax credits, the earned-income tax credit, the work pay credit and educational credits.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Ashu Bhandari, the former president and CEO of GEM Manufacturing LLC, a U.S. Virgin Islands-based company, was sentenced Thursday in federal court in St. Thomas, U.S.V.I., for felony customs violations for his role in a scheme to illegally import protected black coral into the United States, the Department ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: St. Joseph’s Medical Center, a hospital located in Towson, Md., has reached a settlement with the United States to pay $4.9 million in connection with its submission of false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Everett Dwayne Avery, 26, of Detroit, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John Corbett O’Meara after pleading guilty to committing a hate crime by assaulting a man because the man was gay. Avery was sentenced to serve 18 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: SEASONALLY ADJUSTED DATA In the week ending Feb. 2, the advance figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 366,000, a decrease of 5,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 371,000. The 4-week moving average was 350,500, a decrease of 2,250 from the previous week's revised average of 352,750.
By Labor Gazette | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced a grant competition for the National Farmworker Jobs Program. Funds will be used to provide career training and employment and supportive services to improve economic opportunities for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families.
