News from July 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce leaders from the Health and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees today sent a letter to the President and Chief Executive Office of Smithfield Foods, Inc., C. Larry Pope, requesting information regarding the pending acquisition of the company by Shuanghui...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on July 24, 2013, before Senior U.S. District Judge Jack D. Shanstrom, JASPER WADE HALF, a 37-year-old resident of Crow Agency and an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe of Indians, was sentenced to a term of.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee advanced H.R. 899, the Unfunded Mandates Information and Transparency Act (UMITA), introduced by Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-NC, along with three Democratic and one Republican cosponsors, on a vote of 22-17. The legislation reforms and strengthens the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 (UMRA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today against a Livingston, N.J., physician with medical practices in Verona and East Orange, N.J., for allegedly conspiring to receive thousands of dollars in cash kickbacks in exchange for referrals and for failing to file tax returns on nearly $1 million in income, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Brenda Jeffries-Silmon, 55, of Cheektowaga, N.Y., and Marcel Richardson-Redden, 58, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service by preparing false tax returns. the charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: The John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site celebrated Rose Kennedy's birthday on Sunday by hosting Barbara Perry, author Rose Kennedy: The Life and Times of a Political Matriarch. This new biography takes advantage of the recently opened Rose Kennedy papers to paint a fuller portrait of the woman...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell yesterday sentenced Christopher Holladay (37, Deland) to 15 years in federal prison for possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon and possession with intent to distribute a controlled substance. Holladay pleaded guilty on April 30, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: BOISE - Co-defendants Michael Duschka, 37, and Shannon Stewart, 42, both of Boise, were sentenced today in federal court by Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill. Duschka was sentenced to 68 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Today, the U.S. House of Representatives considered H.R. 2397, the “Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014." Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) and Congressman Justin Amash (R-Mich.) offered an amendment to this legislation that would curtail the blanket collection of telephone records by the National Security Agency (NSA). During the debate over this amendment Rep. Conyers delivered the following statement...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today examined the Department of Energy’s management structure and efforts underway at the agency to improve project management and mission performance. In testimony before the Energy and Power Subcommittee...
By State Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - H.R. 1409, the Export Promotion Reform Act, introduced by U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, was approved unanimously today by the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. The legislation, featured in Minority Whip Steny Hoyer’s ‘Make It In America’ agenda, will help manufacturers grow, expand, and create jobs domestically.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - William Edward Jenne, 23, of Las Cruces, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in Las Cruces federal court to possession of a visual depiction of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Leon Jackson was sentenced to 120 months in prison involving the October 2010 armed carjacking in the City of St. Louis.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “The U.S. - E.U. Free Trade Agreement: Tipping Over the Regulatory Barriers?" The hearing explored the issues surrounding the negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or T-TIP.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Otha Easley, Acting Special Agent in Charge, NOAA Fisheries Office of Law Enforcement, and David Pharo, Resident Agent in Charge, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Miami Field Office, announced that Peter C. Covino, IV, 20, of...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Beginning Saturday, Aug. 3, Olympic National Park rangers will lead guided interpretive walks along the Elwha River where Lake Aldwell once existed.This free program will be offered on Saturdays at 1:00 p.m. through September 7.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce leaders from the Health and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittees today sent a letter to the President and Chief Executive Office of Smithfield Foods, Inc., C. Larry Pope, requesting information regarding the pending acquisition of the company by Shuanghui...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - One of the billers for a now defunct McAllen area durable medical equipment (DME) business has been ordered to prison for his role in a conspiracy and scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through fraudulent billings, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Texas Attorney General...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Jose Rivero-Garcia, 53, from Colombia, was sentenced today to thirty-seven months in prison for his participation in a violent and highly sophisticated jewelry theft ring that operated out of Richmond, Va.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 24, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DIMITRIOS KARIPIDIS, 54, a citizen of Greece last residing in Stamford, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Judge Warren W. Eginton in Bridgeport to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
