News from June 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining concerns over the BioWatch program and the surveillance of bioterrorism. This hearing continues an ongoing committee investigation opened last summer...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MELVIN DUARTE pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court for his role in a scheme to fraudulently generate and then steal more than $50 million in federal tax refund checks. DUARTE was originally arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man has been sentenced to 77 months in federal prison for bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining ways to improve transparency and lower healthcare costs in America...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: The United States and New York State have entered into settlement agreements with Parkshore Home Health Care, LLC, d/b/a Renaissance Home Health Care, Inc. (“Renaissance"), a Brooklyn-based licensed home health care services agency. These settlements resolve allegations that Renaissance provided unqualified...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing oversight of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today announced that the subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, June 26, 2013. The hearing is entitled “Overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard: Government Perspectives." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: A Glen Carbon man pled guilty in federal district court on June 17, 2013, to charges of, Count 1, Receipt of Child Pornography, and, Count 2, Possession of Child Pornography, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Arlynn Gene Georgeson...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on June 18, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Keith Strong, SHYANN MARIE DUPREE, a 36-year-old resident of Poplar and an enrolled member in a federally-recognized tribe, pled guilty to burglary. Sentencing has been set for Sept. 25, 2013. She is currently detained.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At today’s Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing on “U.S. Energy Abundance: Regulatory, Market, and Legal Barriers to Export," Jennifer Moyer, Acting Chief of the Regulatory Program for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, testified that the Corps has decided against issuing a single, regional...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A man has pleaded guilty to selling counterfeit goods at a store in Kansas City, Kan., including shoes labeled as Nike Air Force 1 and shirts labeled as Polo Ralph Lauren, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Awal Mohammed, age 38, of Greenbelt, Maryland, today to 136 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute and possession with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Continuing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s ongoing oversight of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today announced that the subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, June 26, 2013. The hearing is entitled “Overview of the Renewable Fuel Standard: Government Perspectives." Witnesses to be announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining concerns over the BioWatch program and the surveillance of bioterrorism. This hearing continues an ongoing committee investigation opened last summer...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Westmoreland County, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 38 months imprisonment to be followed by 10 years of supervised release, as well as ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, on his conviction of threatening to murder, intimidate, interfere or retaliate against a Federal Official and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At today’s Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing on “U.S. Energy Abundance: Regulatory, Market, and Legal Barriers to Export," Jennifer Moyer, Acting Chief of the Regulatory Program for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, testified that the Corps has decided against issuing a single, regional...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today welcomed Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee approval of legislation to complete the aboriginal land claims of the Sealaska Native Regional Corp.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -In a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) pushed for greater transparency in the prices charged for health care services and treatments in order to help reduce costs to patients.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining concerns over the BioWatch program and the surveillance of bioterrorism. This hearing continues an ongoing committee investigation opened last summer...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today continued its look into opportunities to expand U.S. energy exports with a hearing focused on regulatory, market, and legal barriers to the export of American coal and natural gas. America is entering a...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - At today’s Energy and Power Subcommittee hearing on “U.S. Energy Abundance: Regulatory, Market, and Legal Barriers to Export," Jennifer Moyer, Acting Chief of the Regulatory Program for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, testified that the Corps has decided against issuing a single, regional...
