News from July 2013
By DOL Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: Region 9 News Release: 13-1281-SAN (SF-91)
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing to discuss H.R. 1900, the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS), is a commonsense solution to expedite and modernize the federal review process for natural gas pipeline permits.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement after the Obama Administration announced a one-year delay of the health law’s employer mandate.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - On the heels of last week’s abrupt announcements by the Obama administration to delay full implementation of the health law’s employer mandate by one year and scale back verification of exchange applicants’ information, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Derek M. Schwartzrock, 34, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to receipt of a visual depiction of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Schwartzrock will be sentenced to 97 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe requesting information about the methodology used by the agency to estimate the cost impacts of its rulemakings. Setting a July 24, 2013, deadline to respond, members are concerned EPA’s economic analyses neglect economy-wide impacts and lack full consideration of a proposed rule’s effect on jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Eddie R. Palmer, 37, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted of aiding escape, was sentenced to time served (approximately 15 months) by U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: Dear Secretaries Lew, Kerry, Pritzker, and Ambassador Froman...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Expanding its investigation into the implementation of Obamacare, House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders and members of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee today wrote to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on the administration’s recent decision...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: The Eisenhower Academy: An Institute for Teachers and those who love history presents a week-long exploration and assessment of 1950s Cold War America. This year’s 16thannual Academy will be held fromJuly 14 through July 19at Gettysburg College and focuses on the Eisenhower presidency, including the policies, events, crises, and the life-style of 1950s America.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A settlement agreement, resulting from a whistleblower lawsuit, was announced today between the United States and two of the country’s largest commercial shredding services companies. Shred-It Incorporated and Iron Mountain, Incorporated were named in a whistleblower lawsuit that alleged...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Alexis Estevez-Alvarez, 45, of Havana, Cuba, has been found guilty of possession with intent to distribute marijuana and a subsequent charge of failure to appear, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson announced today. The verdict was returned following less than two days of trial and approximately 30 minutes of deliberation.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 9, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today voiced her continued support for the state of Alaska’s plan to fully assess the potential oil and natural gas resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) coastal plain.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: BUSHKILL, PA: Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area Superintendent John J. Donahue sadly announced that a 9 year old boy from Bushkill drowned in the Delaware River late Monday afternoon. The boy was fishing along the shoreline just downstream from Bushkill Access with family members when he lost his footing and slipped into the current. Attempts to rescue the boy by family members and a boater who was passing by were unsuccessful.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “On July 9, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to Prescott Valley, Ariz. to attend the memorial service and express her condolences for the nineteen brave firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty combating the Yarnell Hill Fire.”
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that the Civil Rights Division’s Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the National Labor Relations Board, formalizing a collaborative relationship that allows ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has asked a federal court in Indianapolis, to bar Cynthia Hawk, who operates Gain Tax Services, from preparing tax returns. The civil injunction suit alleges that Hawk fails to comply with due diligence requirements imposed by federal law on tax preparers ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced that Anthony Chaudhuri and Margaret Chaudhuri, of Naples, Fla., pleaded guilty today to one count each of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: A former supervisor at defunct health provider Health Care Solutions Network Inc. (HCSN) was sentenced today in Miami to serve 10 years in prison for her central role in a fraud scheme that resulted in more than $63 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare and Florida Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: "This morning the Department of Justice hosted the initial meeting in the U.S.-E.U./E.U. Member State dialogue on intelligence practices, as first suggested by Attorney General Holder during a ministerial gathering with E.U. officials in Dublin last month.
