News from February 2013
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency’s management of fraud in the production and trade of Renewable Identification Numbers, which serve as renewable fuel credits under EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard regulations. Since November 2011, the agency has identified over 140 million invalid or fraudulently created RINs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced that real estate developer, Roger Stephen Clary, age 60, of Little Rock, pled guilty to mail fraud before United States District Judge J. Leon Holmes today. The remaining four counts of wire fraud were dismissed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - IRS Criminal Investigation is warning taxpayers of an increase in false tax returns being filed with the IRS using stolen Social Security numbers. Stealing identities and filing false tax returns is a serious crime that hurts innocent taxpayers. Both nationwide and in New Mexico, IRS Criminal...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Grand Teton National Park is currently recruiting participants for the 2013 Youth Conservation Program (YCP). Funding for this youth employment opportunity comes from the Grand Teton National Park Foundation through generous contributions by their donors. Applications must be postmarked by March 15, 2013.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., February 7, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04), joined House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (OK-03), Rep. Randy Neubebauer (TX-19), and six other members of Congress in to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (FWS) Director Dan Ashe calling...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today announced Mac Campbell will be joining his committee staff as general counsel. Campbell currently serves in the administration as Assistant United States Trade Representative (USTR) for Congressional Affairs. In his new role, Campbell will serve as a senior advisor to Senator Baucus on all issues before the committee.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), will launch its new hearing series, “Our Nation of Builders," next Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The series will explore ways to make American manufacturing more competitive in the global marketplace and create jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to receive child pornography over the Internet. Russell S. Nicholson, 36, of Kansas City...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Springfield, Ill. - A grand jury has returned a seven-count indictment against a Jacksonville, Ill., man, Michael Smith, 36, of the 200-block of Howe Street, for distribution of crack cocaine and heroin. Smith was charged last week by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine on or about Jan. 16, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: GARLAND, Texas - The dismantling of a major marijuana trafficking organization has resulted in the distribution of significant assets to five Metroplex law enforcement agencies in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: The Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area and Obed Wild and Scenic River have started an artist-in-residence program at both parks, offering professional writers, composers, and visual and performing artists the opportunity to pursue their artistic discipline while being surrounded by the...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: A network of buoys that spans the Pacific, the TAO-Triton array, observes conditions in the upper ocean and is essential for forecasting El Niño months in advance, and for monitoring it as it grows and decays. A new study, just published in the February issue of the Journal of Climate offsite link, describes...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA), Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee is continuing its investigation into the Environmental Protection Agency’s management of fraud in the production and trade of Renewable Identification Numbers, which serve as renewable fuel credits under EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard regulations. Since November 2011, the agency has identified over 140 million invalid or fraudulently created RINs.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today outlined a number of the panel’s priorities for the 113th Congress. In an ongoing effort to improve the quality of our nation’s health care system, Pitts announced the subcommittee will continue to monitor the implementation...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY - A Louisville tax preparer was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge John G. Heyburn, II to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay a $1,500 special penalty assessment, for aiding and assisting in the preparation of false income tax returns that claimed over $430,000 in false deductions and expenses announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), along with other members of the House Democratic Caucus, participated in a Democratic Issues Conference in Leesburg, Virginia which included addresses by President Obama and Vice President Biden. At this conference, the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Taylor Smith Hills, age 25, of Boulder, Colorado, was arrested last week for drug related money laundering charges, the United States Attorney’s Office, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), IRS-Criminal Investigation, U.S. Postal Inspection...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 7, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) today applauded a watchdog organization that litigates for private property rights and a balanced approach to environmental regulations. The Pacific Legal Foundation is challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for designating 1,544 acres of private property in St. Tammany Parish, La. as "critical habitat" for the dusky gopher frog.
