News from July 2013
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced six important bills that will collectively promote economic growth, create and protect jobs, support a more secure energy future, and promote public health.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: As part of President Obama’s all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production,a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction today netted more than $22 million in revenues from the sale of 64 Federal leases in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce advanced six important bills that will collectively promote economic growth, create and protect jobs, support a more secure energy future, and promote public health.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Senator Barbara Boxer's Remarks... EPA Headquarters Naming Ceremony in Honor of President Clinton (Remarks as Prepared for Delivery) Welcome to this beautiful building, which in about an hour will forever be known as the William Jefferson Clinton Building. We all know how a bill becomes a law, and this ...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today spoke in support of H.R. 2667, the Authority for Mandate Delay Act, and H.R. 2668, the Fairness for American Families Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - Brian Raphael D’Isernia, 69, of Panama City Beach, Florida, and Lagoon Landing, LLC, a corporation controlled by D’Isernia, were sentenced today in federal court in the Northern District of Florida for illegal dredging and felony wetlands violations. The two defendants were ordered to pay a criminal fine totaling $2.25 million dollars, the largest criminal fine assessed for wetlands violations in Florida history.
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 17, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, ANGELA CORSON SMITH, a 32-year-old resident of Billings, pled guilty to bank fraud. Sentencing has been set for Oct. 28, 2013. She is currently released on special conditions.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, criticized the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) response to a June 11, 2013 letter he and four other Committee Republicans sent to EPA Senior Policy Advisor Ken Kopocis, regarding the agency's work on the Bristol Bay Watershed Assessment (Assessment).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Human Trafficking Rescue Project. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Mo., man has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to child sex trafficking and producing child pornography as part...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months imprisonment, a $15,000 fine, and two years supervised release on his conviction of interstate transportation of stolen goods, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana- The United States Attorney’s Office announced that the following Indictments were returned today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: Punitive and draconian cuts combined with and extraneous riders have resulted in an unacceptable bill. If this bill makes it to the floor, the American people will see what would happen to our financial regulators, tax enforcers, and, sadly, the rights of women in America, if the House Majority has their way.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 17, 2013
News Release: A Cleveland Heights man was sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison for drug crimes, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The results of the July 2013 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ELIEZER MALDONADO, 25, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today before United States District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to one count of production of child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: “I would like to thank all of you for coming to the latest in our ongoing series of hearings on the retirement system. Today, we are going to focus on the fact that most people employed by small businesses simply are not being offered good retirement benefits. And we are going to look at whether we can address this problem by allowing groups of small employers to reduce cost, complexity, and risk through pooled retirement plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Osaka, Japan-based Diamond Electric Mfg. Co. Ltd. has agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $19 million criminal fine for its role in a conspiracy to fix prices of ignition coils installed in cars sold in the United States and elsewhere, the Department of Justice announced today. This is the first case ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: Damion Canalichio was sentenced today to serve 137 months in prison for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy involving loan sharking and illegal gambling, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and Edward J. Hanko, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: After a four-week trial, a federal jury has convicted Miguel Alvarado-Linares, Ernesto Escobar, Dimas Alfaro-Granados and Jairo Reyna-Ozuna for committing multiple murders, attempted murders, armed robberies and firearms offenses in Gwinnett and DeKalb Counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2013
News Release: The former medical director at defunct health provider Health Care Solutions Network (HCSN) and six therapists were arrested today, accused of conspiring to fraudulently bill Medicare and Florida Medicaid more than $63 million.
