News from June 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A, Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Otha Easley, Acting Special Agent in Charge for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Office of Law Enforcement, Southeast Division, and David G. Pharo, Resident Agent in Charge, U.S. Fish & Wildlife...
By State Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Africa, and Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Africa, introduced...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced seven appointments to the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. All appointees will serve 3-year terms beginning July 1, 2013, through June 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wounded Knee, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) welcomed the announcement of President Obama’s intent to nominate Alejandro Mayorkas to be the next Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MARIO VILLANUEVA MADRID, the former governor of the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court. VILLANUEVA MADRID received a sentence of 131 months in prison for conspiring...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed yesterday charges a 25-year-old felon from St. Paul with possessing several firearms as well as distributing crack cocaine. The indictment, which was filed on June 18, 2013, charges Paris Cedrell Neal with two counts of being a felon in possession of a firearm...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site is pleased to welcome Barbara Perry, Senior Fellow in presidential oral history at University of Virginia's Miller Center, on Sunday, July 21, 2013 as part of the site's commemoration of Mrs. Rose Kennedy's birthday. Perry will share her new book, Rose Kennedy:...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of Allegheny County has been sentenced in federal court to 18 months of incarceration, restitution of $117,307.77, and three years of supervised release on his conviction of False Statements, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed earlier this week charges a 34-year-old felon from Duluth with carjacking and possessing a nine-millimeter pistol as well as methamphetamine. The indictment, which was filed on June 18, 2013, charges Elfred William Petruk with one count of carjacking, one count...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday wrote to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an examination of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) settlement of lawsuits that seek to compel the agency to undertake new rulemakings, also known as “sue and...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders yesterday wrote to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an examination of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) settlement of lawsuits that seek to compel the agency to undertake new rulemakings, also known as “sue and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 28, 2013 - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 2231, the Offshore Energy and Jobs Act, with a bipartisan vote of 235-186. This legislation, sponsored by Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04), would expand U.S. offshore energy production in order to create new American jobs, lower energy prices, grow our economy, and strengthen America’s national security.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Following the Energy and Commerce Committee’s release of an advanced legislative framework to repeal the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system, leading members of Congress reacted with increased optimism on reforming the current Medicare physician payment system. Today’s announced legislative framework would repeal the SGR and replace it with a fair and stable system of physician payment in the Medicare program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota man was convicted of Assault of a Minor and was sentenced on June 27, 2013 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Adrian Wells, age 37, of Pierre, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on June 25, 2013 and pled guilty to Failure to Register as a Sex Offender. The maximum penalty upon conviction is 10 years in custody, a $250,000 fine, or both; life of supervised release; and $100 to the Federal Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Ernesto Garcia, 59, of Lubbock, Texas, appeared this morning before U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings and pleaded guilty to one count of perjury, stemming from his sworn testimony in a detention hearing held in May 2012 in federal court in Lubbock, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that LUSVIN LEONEL OLIVA-AQUINO, 27, a citizen of Guatemala last residing in Stamford, was sentenced yesterday by United States District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 21 months of imprisonment for illegally reentering the United States after he was deported.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today unveiled an advanced legislative framework to repeal the current Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) system and replace it with a fair and stable system of physician payment in the Medicare program. The draft legislation is the latest step...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 28, 2013
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ- Following the lead of local governments, including Navajo and Apache Counties, level II fire restrictions are now in effect due to the extreme fire danger from prolonged hot and dry weather conditions. These restrictions will remain in effect throughout Petrified Forest National Park until further notice.
