News from March 2013
By EPA Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its schedule for the week of March 4, 2013. On Tuesday, the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a bipartisan forum to explore severe mental illness and violence. Also on Tuesday the Energy and Power Subcommittee...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) congratulated and welcomed Congressman Jim Renacci (R-OH) to the Ways and Means Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a St. Joseph, Mo., woman has pleaded guilty in federal court to her role in a conspiracy to provide false identity documents so that more than 100 illegal immigrants could fraudulently obtain driver’s and non-driver’s licenses from the license office in St. Joseph, which is operated by a contractor for the Missouri Department of Revenue.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Mark Adams, a former deputy director at a private contractor that did business with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), was sentenced today to 51 months in prison on a federal conspiracy charge stemming from the embezzlement of more than $1 million from a program meant to address global health problems.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A woman from Leavenworth, Kan., has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for fraudulently collecting disability benefits while working in federal and state jobs, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. She also was ordered to pay $76,875 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DONNA GUERIN, an attorney, was sentenced today to eight years in prison on conspiracy and tax evasion charges stemming from her work on the design, marketing, and implementation of fraudulent tax shelters...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on March 1, 2013, Sean Conklin, 35, of New Town, N.D., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Daniel L. Hovland on a charge of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Conklin was found guilty of the charge by a federal jury on April 18, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Tobechi Enyinna Onwuhara, 33, formerly of Dallas, Texas, has been arrested in Australia after more than four years as a fugitive and brought to the United States to face charges accusing him of leading a home equity line of credit fraud scheme that attempted to steal more than $38 million and caused approximately $13 million in losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Friday, March 1, 2013. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS, OHIO - Jose Eduardo Islas, 41, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 120 months in prison followed by five years of supervised...
By State Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding comments made by Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan’s statement at a U.N. Alliance of Civilizations conference in Vienna this week equating Zionism with a crime against humanity. The statement follows...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) issued the following statements after the release of the U.S.-EU High Level Working Group on Jobs and Growth’s report this morning and the President’s announcement last night in the State of the Union that he intends to launch negotiations for a comprehensive trade and investment agreement with the European Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Taylor County, Kentucky felon, pleaded guilty in United States District Court this week, before Senior Judge Thomas B. Russell, to a two count federal grand jury indictment charging him with manufacture and possession with intent to distribute marijuana and felon in possession of firearms, announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Robert E. O'Neill announces the return of an indictment charging Gabriel James Brown, Jr. (33, Tampa) with bank robbery, two Hobbs Act robberies of businesses, and carrying, using, and brandishing a firearm in relation to those crimes of violence. If convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - A Pekin man faces federal charges of conspiracy to distribute heroin and distribution of heroin resulting in three deaths. Anthony Mansini, 22, of the 4400 block of Meadow Drive, made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday and was ordered to remain in the custody of the U.S. Marshals Service. A trial date has been set for May 6, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that David Andrews, age 31, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota appeared before U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange on Feb. 21, 2013 and pled guilty to the Superseding Information that charged him with Possession of a Controlled Substance. The maximum...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. State Department today issued its Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Keystone XL Presidential Permit application, which includes the proposed new route through Nebraska. The SEIS findings are similar to the Department’s FEIS issued last August, which found the pipeline will have limited adverse environmental impacts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a rural Lantry, South Dakota man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Involuntary Manslaughter.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its schedule for the week of March 4, 2013. On Tuesday, the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee will hold a bipartisan forum to explore severe mental illness and violence. Also on Tuesday the Energy and Power Subcommittee...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, the Ways and Means Committee announced a new email address, tax.reform@mail.house.gov as another way for stakeholders, advocacy groups and the public to share information, facts and data relevant to the Committee’s review of current federal income tax law within the Committee’s 11 Tax Reform Working Groups.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 1, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A 41-year-old man pled guilty today to a charge stemming from a recent sexual assault against a woman with whom he had a child, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
