News from July 2013
By State Newswire | Jul 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, released the following statement in response to ongoing events in Egypt...
By State Newswire | Jul 5, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 5, 2013
News Release: NEW YORK - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) officers arrested 93 foreign-born convicted sex offenders in June in New York through a targeted enforcement initiative known as Operation SOAR (Sex Offender Alien Removal).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2013
News Release: EAGLE, Colo. - The Bull Gulch Fire burning on Bureau of Land Management lands in the remote Bull Gulch Wilderness Study Area has grown to 40 acres. Firefighters will continue to monitor the fire and expect it to continue to grow over the next several days.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2013
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - On July 3, 2013, a jury found Vernon Harrison, of Montgomery, Ala., guilty of one count of conspiring to file false claims, eight counts of mail fraud, eight counts of aggravated identity theft and six counts of embezzlement from the U.S. mail, announced George L. Beck, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2013
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is requesting public nominations to fill three positions on its national Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board. Nominations are for a term of three years and are needed to represent the following categories of interest: wild horse and burro research, natural resource management...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 5, 2013
News Release: On July 1, 2013, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Robert Thomas, 36, of Lake Worth, Florida, pled guilty to a one-count information. Sentencing has been set for Oct. 28, 2013. The charge arose out of a telemarketing scam which operated...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 5, 2013
News Release: Fredonia, AZ -Pipe Spring National Monument will be hosting another evening bat program on Wednesday, July 10, at 7:30 pm AZ (8:30 UT). Whether you are fascinated with, merely curious, or scared to death of bats, you're invited to spend the evening getting a close up view of these amazing creatures of the night.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 5, 2013
News Release: New lures that entice codling moths with the scent of food and a possible mate are helping tree fruit growers better monitor the orchard pest and control it with carefully timed insecticide applications.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 4, 2013
News Release: WARTBURG, Tennessee: The National Park Service invites photographers to submit entries for an exhibit at the Obed Wild and Scenic River Visitor Center. The National Park Service is looking for striking digital images of nature, highlighting the diversity of life in the park.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 4, 2013
News Release: TALKEETNA, AK: Six stranded flightseeing tourists and their pilot are reportedly in good health in the Ruth Amphitheater of Denali National Park and Preserve as they await flyable conditions for a return flight to Talkeetna. Deteriorating weather during a routine flightseeing trip on Tuesday evening...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that FELIX RODRIGUEZ, a licensed physician in Manhattan, was sentenced to a term of 37 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Karas in White Plains federal court for distributing Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: Image. On Friday, June 28, the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy hosted a webinar on the energy efficiency aspects of the President's Climate Action Plan. Rick Duke, Associate Director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and the Domestic Policy...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), JJ & Son Marketing Inc., operating in Chualar, Calif., posted a $150,000 surety bond.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On June 27, 2013, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against four defendants charged with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, cocaine and Oxycodone (commonly known as Percocet), announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The Drug Enforcement Administration is in charge of the investigation.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 VLADIVOSTOK, Russia—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano today joined Department of the Treasury’s Assistant Secretary for Terrorist Financing Daniel Glaser to participate in the 4th Annual International Conference on Security Matters ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 3, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today outlined a series of actions by the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to conserve the old-growth forests of the Tongass National Forest. The actions will focus on speeding the transition to management of second-growth (previously harvested) forests.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: Medical device manufacturer TranS1 Inc., now known as Baxano Surgical Inc., has agreed to pay the United States $6 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that the company caused health care providers to submit false claims to Medicare and other federal health care programs for minimally-invasive ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department today reached an agreement with Stellar Staffing LLC, based in Birmingham, Ala., resolving claims that the employment agency violated the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2013
News Release: Sound Inpatient Physicians Inc. will pay $14.5 million to settle allegations that it overbilled Medicare and other federal health care programs, the Justice Department announced today. Sound Physicians is a Tacoma, Wash.-based provider of hospitalists and other physicians to hospitals and other medical facilities. It employs more than 700 hospitalists and post-acute physicians, who provide services at 70 hospitals and a growing network of post-acute facilities in 22 states.
