News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Jul. 9, 2013, a federal grand jury in Greeneville returned an indictment against Gary Dean Stump, D.M.D., 57, of Bean Station, Tenn., charging him with health care fraud for submitting false claims to TennCare’s program for dental services to children, TennDent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. -- Richie Barnett, 47 and Ruth Barnett, 44, of Erwin, Tenn., were sentenced on August 5, 2013, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, for their roles in a methamphetamine manufacturing conspiracy. Richie Barnett was sentenced to serve 135 months in prison and Ruth Barnett...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Republicans today released the final video in a series highlighting the four key principles of the Student Success Act (H.R. 5), legislation to rewrite federal K-12 education law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Project Ceasefire. 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 illegally possessing firearms. Jason L. Robbins, 33, of Kansas City, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) on Friday sent the following letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn regarding the Universal Service Fund (USF) and proposals to expand the program. The USF, funded by a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A Washington County man has been sentenced in federal court to 70 months imprisonment, to be followed by 15 years supervised release, on his conviction of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury sitting in Albuquerque, N.M., has returned a 38-count indictment charging Johannes Jarvis, 40, of Portland, Ore., and John Hope, 65, of Huntingdon Valley, Pa., with conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering charges, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, Carol K.O. Lee, Special Agent in Charge of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI, and Dawn Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Phoenix Field Office of IRS Criminal Investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA -- - United States Attorney Timothy J. Heaphy announced today that the former Chief of Police in Marion, Virginia pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Abingdon to a charge involving the distribution of methamphetamine, cocaine, oxycodone and hydrocodone.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing oversight of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today announced that the subcommittee has scheduled a two-day hearing next week entitled “Overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard: Stakeholder...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) on Friday sent the following letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn regarding the Universal Service Fund (USF) and proposals to expand the program. The USF, funded by a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Financial Advisor Also Sentenced to Prison for His Role in the Scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing oversight of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today announced that the subcommittee has scheduled a two-day hearing next week entitled “Overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard: Stakeholder...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today sent a letter to President Obama requesting the Administration provide witnesses to Thursday's EPW hearing, "Climate Change: It's Happening Now." EPW Committee Chairman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) has excluded any federal witnesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Earlier today in federal court, United States District Court Chief Judge Michael J. Davis sentenced a 75-year-old Burnsville man in connection to the multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme orchestrated by Trevor Cook.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing oversight of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today announced that the subcommittee has scheduled a two-day hearing next week entitled “Overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard: Stakeholder...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) on Friday sent the following letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn regarding the Universal Service Fund (USF) and proposals to expand the program. The USF, funded by a...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On Jul. 9, 2013, a federal grand jury in Greeneville returned an indictment against Gary Dean Stump, D.M.D., 57, of Bean Station, Tenn., charging him with health care fraud for submitting false claims to TennCare’s program for dental services to children, TennDent.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jose Nunez-Donastor, a/k/a Jesus Perez, a/k/a Rafael Torres Rivera, a/k/a Guineo, a/k/a Gineo, 33, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to 108 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - Acting United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell today sentenced Jimmy Anthony Montgomery, Jr. (25, Deland) to 15 years in federal prison for a drug trafficking conspiracy and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 15, 2013
News Release: Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) and Workforce Protections Subcommittee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) have invited a senior official with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to testify at a joint hearing on the delay of the ObamaCare employer mandate. The hearing will take place on Tuesday, July 23 at 10 a.m. in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
