News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Donna Jean Remides, 51, of Winnsboro, La., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Robert G. James to lying on loan applications in order to receive loans used to hide the theft of $640,000 from a federally funded non-profit.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will meet Friday, June 28th at 9:00 a.m. to consider a resolution regarding Lois Lerner’s potential waiver of her Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate herself at the Committee’s May 22, 2013 hearing entitled “The IRS: Targeting Americans...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ahead of President Obama’s climate change speech today, Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) joined Fox Business Network’s Stuart Varney and Co. to highlight the destructive consequences of the administration’s war on coal. The president’s plan seeks to circumvent...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Three of this year's Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) began work at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on June 18, 2013, helping the institute address issues relating to connecting networks of machines, facilities and people, and also to help energy consumers make better use of their energy usage data.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: ARLINGTON, Texas - U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas welcomed the 2013 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report Heroes at an executive session this morning of the North Texas Anti-Trafficking Team (NTATT) in Arlington, Texas. Each year, the Department of State honors individuals...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 48 months in prison and three years supervised release on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - John Gilbert Rincon, 41, of Lewiston, Idaho, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Coeur d’Alene to 61 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge also ordered Rincon to serve ten years of supervised release, and to forfeit $20,000 in U.S. currency. He pleaded guilty to the charge on December 4, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A Missouri woman has been sentenced to federal prison for sex trafficking in Kansas, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Holland, Michigan man has been charged with Lacey Act Violations by an Information filed April 4, 2013.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: On Thursday, June 27 at 10:00 a.m., the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), will hold a hearing entitled, “School Meal Regulations: Discussing the Costs and Consequences for Schools and Students." The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, today made the following statement after President Barack Obama announced plans to implement costly new regulations on power plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Samuel Daniels, age 54 of Brighton, Michigan, pleaded guilty to Tax Evasion for the year 2008, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today. Ms. McQuade was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Erick Martinez, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Division.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WIND CAVE NATIONAL PARK, SD - The revolving door at the Walk-In Entrance to Wind Cave will be replaced with a small airlock structure this winter as a result of a recently completed environmental assessment. The National Park Service Midwest Regional Director Michael T. Reynoldssigned the Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for an environmental assessment written to build the small structure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Roger L. Baeza, 31, of Jal, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to 78 counts of securities fraud, one count of access device fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales, Carol K.O. Lee, Special Agent in Charge of the Albuquerque Division of the FBI, and Chief Robert W. Shilling of the New Mexico State Police.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: Physicists working at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) are edging ever closer to getting really random.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: An infrared flight over Forest Canyon in Rocky Mountain National Park has confirmed that the Fern Lake Fire is officially out. The Fern Lake Fire started in Rocky Mountain National Park from an illegal campfire on October 9, 2012, in steep and rugged Forest Canyon. Firefighters from across the country...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Westmoreland County has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of misappropriation of postal funds, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The National Academy of Sciences today released its study on “Effects of Diluted Bitumen on Crude Oil Transmission Pipelines" that was required as part of the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Jobs Creation Act of 2011, which incorporated language approved by the Energy and Commerce...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce today responded to President Obama’s climate change action plan, which includes imposing costly regulations on new and existing fossil-fuel power plants and expanding taxpayer spending for more climate activities across the federal government. The committee will hold hearings to further examine the president’s climate change plan and its anticipated economic impacts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2013
News Release: MDENT agents found prescription painkillers and firearms including an AR-15 rifle at Rand residence.
