News from July 2013
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on the anticipated vote on a bill to ensure that the interest rate for federal subsidized Stafford loans remains at 3.4 percent. In June, Harkin...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) today joined House Republican leaders and college students on the steps of the U.S. Capitol and called on Senate Democrats to pass a long-term, market-based solution to the student loan interest rate problem.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two New Fairfield men were sentenced today in Bridgeport federal court for trafficking oxycodone and other controlled substances. U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill sentenced JASON GEORGE WITTLIN, 30, and his brother, MICHAEL WITTLIN, 24, to prison terms of 48 months and 38 months, respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Drug Enforcement Administration Acting Special Agent in Charge Bruce C. Balzano and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced that David Chavez, Sr., 53, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today in front of United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii, after pleading guilty December...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The government has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit against Infirmary Health System Inc. and its related entities: IMC-Diagnostic and Medical Clinic P.C., Diagnostic Physicians Group P.C. and Infirmary Medical Clinics P.C., the Department of Justice announced today. The lawsuit alleges...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Christian J. Morales, 30, formerly of Pawtucket and Woonsocket, R.I., and Blackstone, Mass., was sentenced today to 65 months in federal prison for failing to register as a sex offender for the 3rd time, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and United States Marshall Jamie A. Hainsworth. The sentence was imposed by U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today continued its examination of reforms to the Medicaid program with a hearing on “Making Medicaid Work for the Most Vulnerable." The hearing, the third of an ongoing series, builds on the subcommittee’s efforts to review...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: Join Ranger Dustin Beaty for an exciting and fun filled scavenger hunt at the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area. Please wear sturdy shoes, bring a flashlight and use insect repellent. Participants will be given a list of items to be found around the Bandy Creek area. Map reading, natural and cultural history items will be included on the list. Ranger Beaty will help with map reading skills, if needed.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today continued its examination of reforms to the Medicaid program with a hearing on “Making Medicaid Work for the Most Vulnerable." The hearing, the third of an ongoing series, builds on the subcommittee’s efforts to review...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In response to the President Obama’s remarks presenting a “new management agenda" and calling on Congress to provide him with blanket reorganization authority, House Oversight and Government Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., offered the following statement...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: ST. PAUL, MN - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) met today with workers and executives at two St. Paul, Minnesota area businesses to discuss the need to overhaul America’s tax code in an effort to boost theeconomy and create more jobs.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday, July 10 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, chaired by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), will hold a hearing entitled “Examining the Labor Department’s Proposed Reforms to the FECA Program." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that an Anchorage resident was sentenced to prison for convictions of conspiracy to defraud the government and mail fraud.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today continued its examination of reforms to the Medicaid program with a hearing on “Making Medicaid Work for the Most Vulnerable." The hearing, the third of an ongoing series, builds on the subcommittee’s efforts to review...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Joshua I. Suter, 24, of San Angelo, Texas, appeared in federal court in Lubbock on Friday, before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings, and pleaded guilty to one count of possession of child pornography. Suter, who remains on bond, faces a maximum statutory penalty of 10 years in federal...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Four Salvadoran nationals who are wanted in their native country for various crimes - including homicide, aggravated kidnapping, robbery, extortion and membership to the illicit groups MS-13 and 18th Street - were turned over to authorities in El Salvador Friday by U.S. Immigration...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TREVOR WHITTINGHAM, an owner of parking lots in Manhattan, pled guilty in Manhattan federal court to failing to pay payroll taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS"). WHITTINGHAM was arrested in January 2013 and pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Sullivan.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA: Doctors Hospital of Augusta, LLC, which is owned and operated by the for-profit hospital chain, HCA Inc., and Radiation Oncology Associates, LLP, of Augusta, Georgia, have agreed to pay the United States a total of $1,020,000 to settle allegations that they submitted or caused the submission...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City man previously convicted of a felony was indicted by a federal grand jury for knowingly possessing a stolen 9 mm caliber pistol and a stolen.30-30 caliber rifle, knowing he was prohibited from doing so.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces that Kayla M. Noble, a student at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, pleaded guilty today to one count of theft of government property. Noble faces a maximum penalty of ten years in federal prison. As part of her plea agreement, she agreed to forfeit to the United States $102,237 representing the proceeds obtained as a result of the offense.
