News from July 2013
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: "Review Process Must be Comprehensive & Take into Account the Full Range of National Security Interests, Including Food Safety"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Ransel Keith Pryor, age 44, of Clinton, Maryland, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Keith Starrett to serve 188 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute over five kilograms of cocaine hydrochloride, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. Pryor was also ordered to pay a fine of $17,500.00.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced 14 appointments to the Plant Variety Protection Board. Each appointee will serve a 2-year term.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: The Energy and Power Subcommittee today approved an important piece of legislation designed to protect Americans from expensive new EPA regulations that threaten to drive up energy costs for consumers and families and destroy jobs. Rep. Bill Cassidy’s (R-LA) commonsense Energy Consumers Relief Act, H.R.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced that a 60-year-old Mercer County man was indicted on July 9 by a federal grand jury sitting in Beckley for a child pornography offense. Johnny Richard Rowe, of Bluewell, W.Va., was charged with possession of child pornography. The single-count indictment alleges that on June 19, 2013, Rowe possessed hundreds of images and videos of child pornography on his computer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that there will be a press event held tomorrow, Thursday, July 11, 2013, at 3:00 pm, at the Office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, located at Nine Executive Drive, Fairview Heights, IL, 62208-1344, concerning the announcement of a Health Care Fraud Investigation and resultant Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On July 8, 2013, Indalecio Castro-Ponce, 40, of San Luis, Ariz. was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan R. Boltonto 240 months imprisonment and a $3,000 fine. Castro-Ponce was found guilty by a federal jury on April 12, 2013, of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and two counts of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: JERMAINE HUDSON, age 25, of Harvey, Louisiana was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Lance M. Africk after pleading guilty to Violations of the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization and the Federal Controlled Substances Acts, announced U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairman: On Wednesday, you announced that the Committee will be holding a hearing on July 18, 2013, focusing on “the development and execution of the process by which Tea Party applications were delayed and scrutinized" by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).[1] The Committee’s investigation...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding the GOP’s obstruction of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Earlier today, Speaker Boehner announced that House Republicans would hold yet another - the 38th - vote to repeal the health law...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: The Energy and Power Subcommittee today approved an important piece of legislation designed to protect Americans from expensive new EPA regulations that threaten to drive up energy costs for consumers and families and destroy jobs. Rep. Bill Cassidy’s (R-LA) commonsense Energy Consumers Relief Act, H.R.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Michael F. Harris, 49, of Luray, Virginia, was sentenced to 108 month’s imprisonment today for his role in defrauding investors of more than $800,000 from a project aimed at purportedly developing a treatment for Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS). Earlier this year, Harris was found guilty of wire fraud and mail fraud following a five-day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. DETROIT - A podiatrist, psychologist and a pharmacist were convicted today in federal court in Detroit, Michigan on multiple counts of an Indictment charging them with conspiracy, health care fraud, and controlled substance distribution, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York (“NYPD"), announced that...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: A north-Iowa man who conspired to fabricate grain elevator tickets, committed bankruptcy fraud, and impeded the Internal Revenue laws was sentenced on July 9, 2013, to more than three and one-half years in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA - The National Park Service working in cooperation with the U.S. Forest Service, intergovernmental agencies and tribal partners in Northern Arizona, will move to Stage 1 fire restrictions starting at 8 a.m., on Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Monsoonal weather patterns have moved into the area decreasing fire danger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a White River, South Dakota woman convicted of Simple Assault and Aiding and Abetting was sentenced on July 8, 2013, by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: Safety in Our Schools: Education, Prevention, Management.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement applauding the Committee’s passage of the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that would prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity...
