News from June 2013
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, today made a final request of Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe of the U.S. Environmental Protection ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A former partner of a law firm based in Freehold, N.J., was sentenced today to 33 months in prison for defrauding the firm and its clients by improperly diverting more than $885,000 from the law firm, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: These detailed reviews, known as the Program System Definition Review (P/SDR) and JPSS-1 Mission Preliminary Design Review (MPDR), show the program is on track as it moves forward to meeting even higher-level critical milestones later this summer. The P/SDR is an independent review that evaluates the...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The BLM Royal Gorge Field Office is moving into Stage II fire restrictions for public lands in the counties of Baca, Bent, Chaffee, Crowley, Custer, El Paso, Fremont, Huerfano, Jefferson, Kiowa, Lake, Las Animas, Otero, Park, Prowers, Pueblo and Teller. The restrictions were effective midnight on Tuesday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Yesterday in federal court in St. Paul, a jury found a 33-year-old man from Green Bay, Wisconsin, guilty of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine. On June 26, 2013, the jury convicted Travis Sentell Peeler of one count of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five or more kilograms of cocaine and 280 or more grams of crack cocaine. Peeler was indicted on July 23, 2012, along with six co-defendants.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., today offered a strong admonition to House Democrats attempting to derail the investigation by the Ways and Means and Oversight and Government Reform Committees into political targeting at IRS. Last night, Treasury...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey of the Eastern District of Kentucky, and Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Perez of the Civil Rights Division, announced today that Stephen Molen, a Sheriff’s Deputy with the Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office in Pulaski County, KY., was indicted by a federal grand jury on two counts of violating the civil rights of victims by using excessive force in October 2009 and October 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: JUNE 27, (ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.) - During a press conference this afternoon, federal, state and local officials announced the results of the multi-agency enforcement operation in New Mexico which was part of yesterday’s DEA-led enforcement operations in 35 states targeting the upper echelon of dangerous designer synthetic drug trafficking organizations that have operated without regard for the law or public safety.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and FCC Inspector General David Hunt regarding the FCC’s oversight and management of the Interstate Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) Fund and the...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing on “Equipping Carriers and Agencies in the Wireless Era." The subcommittee heard from government and private sector witnesses as members continue to discuss...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota man convicted of Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance was sentenced on June 25, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: What a difference a year makes. Last year, Chairman Latham put forward a responsible bill that invested in our nation's infrastructure and took care of the housing needs of our most vulnerable citizens. The bill we consider today, however, is a stark contrast.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “A Tangle of Trade Barriers: How India’s Industrial Policy is Hurting U.S. Companies." The United States and India have a strong and growing trade relationship, with India...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Dwight McCloud Newman, age 63, of Gwynn Oak, Maryland pleaded guilty today to Title II program fraud.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: Dear Chairman Camp: It is now evident that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration’s May 14, 2013 audit report titled “Inappropriate Criteria Were Used to Identify Tax-Exempt Applications for Review" is fundamentally flawed. * The audit fails to acknowledge that the term “progressives"...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Acting Chairwoman Mignon Clyburn and FCC Inspector General David Hunt regarding the FCC’s oversight and management of the Interstate Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) Fund and the...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: Starting in May, the National Park Service began hosting a series of guest speakers to explore John Muir’s modern legacy. The series continues on Sunday, July 14, 2013 with special guest Anthony Garvin, who will screen his documentary film In Search of John Muir at 2 PM at the John Muir National Historic Site (NHS) Visitor Center. In addition to showing the hour-long film, Garvin will speak about his experience following in Muir’s footsteps while creating the documentary.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 27, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA"), today announced that FELIX TRUJILLO-MANRIQUE was extradited yesterday from Colombia for allegedly...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William Lawrence was sentenced to 72 months in prison for placing a $1 million bounty on Craigslist for the death of any Maplewood Police officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Hia Soo Gan Benson, also known as “Benson Hia," and Lim Kow Seng, also known as “Eric Lim," pled guilty today in federal court in the District of Columbia to conspiracy to violate the Arms Export Control Act in connection with the unlawful export of 55 military antennas from the United States to Singapore and Hong Kong.
