News from July 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JIAN MI, 38, a citizen of China and a lawful permanent resident of Rocky Hill, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of making a false statement to a federal law enforcement officer.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) and U.S. Representative Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) - both physicians - sent HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius a letter asking serious questions about “ongoing significant weaknesses in HHS’ financial management" outlined in HHS’s FY2012 financial audit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Defendant Billed Insurance Company Almost $730,000 For Phony Procedures, Hid Looting Of Employee Pension Plan, And Evaded $2.8 Million In Federal Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on July 18, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, ELISEO LOPEZ MARTINEZ, a 49-year-old resident of Turlock, California, pled guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute controlled substances. Sentencing has been set for Oct. 21, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) released the following statements today after the House passed legislation that would delay enforcement of the health care law’s employer mandate (H.R. 2667) and individual mandate (H.R. 2668) for one year...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ. - Employees of Grand Canyon National Park have been recognized for outstanding achievement and leadership in the promotion of public and employee safety in 2012. The Preventative Search and Rescue (PSAR) team was recognized with the highest award bestowed by the National Park Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Travis Vacek, age 34, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has pled guilty to Count II of the Amended Information that charged him with Unlawful Taking of Migratory Birds and Lacey Act Violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, woman charged with Failure to Pay Legal Child Support pled guilty and was sentenced on July 15, 2013, by U.S. District Court Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Terence Orlando Delly, age 36, of Reisterstown, Maryland, late yesterday to 10 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court in St. Paul, a 59-year-old Minneapolis felon pleaded guilty to possessing a nine-millimeter pistol. Robert Lee Powers pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession. Powers, who was indicted on April 22, 2013, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Susan Richard Nelson.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ways and Means Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr. M.D. (R-LA) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) today in a letter to Acting...
By State Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered this opening statement, as prepared for delivery, at today’s nomination hearing for Samantha Power to serve as Ambassador to the United Nations. The statement follows:
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Instead of looking to cut inefficiencies, the majority has simply had to cut both effective and ineffective programs alike. These numbers are penny wise, but pound foolish.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Adrian Daniel Logan, age 26, of Madison, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier on July 17, 2013, and pled guilty to Passing Counterfeit United States Currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: McCoy stole more than $500,000 from Chase; created unauthorized cashier’s checks to purchase a Cadillac SUV and a ’68 Chevy Camaro.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Francis M. Buckner Jr., 41, of New Llano, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Richard T. Haik to possession of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The decision to delay enforcement of the employer mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has created a host of new questions and concerns that need to be addressed, according to a letter sent today to President Obama from House Republican leaders.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Thanks, Mr. Chairman, and thanks to all our witnesses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and George Venizelos, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), today announced the arrest of CHARLES FAMILETTI, JR. for attempted sex trafficking of a...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today joined U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and U.S. Reps. Charles Boustany (R-La.) and Jim Matheson (D-Utah) along with members of the Stop the HIT coalition to highlight the six-month countdown to repeal the health insurance tax (HIT) included in the President’s health law.
