News from March 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a news conference today with U.S. Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Mike Johanns (R-Neb.), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) outlined the costs and consequences of the President’s health law, highlighting legislation he’s introduced to repeal the employer and individual mandates, the health insurance tax (HIT), and the medical device tax that are key components of the law.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A member of an anti-government movement known as the “Sovereign Movement," was sentenced today to 98 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to forfeit $1.29 million in assets and pay $95,782 in restitution for his conviction on conspiracy and money laundering crimes, announced Daniel G. Bogden, United States Attorney for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Wife Pleads Guilty to Participating in Husband’s Embezzlement Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-Mich.) today joined a bipartisan group of members from the House to introduce legislation to crack down on currency manipulation by China and other nations. The House legislation already has 101 Democratic and Republican co-sponsors.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS- Earlier today in federal court, a 21-year-old Champlin felon was sentenced for possessing a nine-millimeter pistol and a.44-caliber revolver. United States District Court Chief Judge Michael J. Davis sentenced Deandre Franklin to 60 months in federal prison on one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Franklin was indicted on July 23, 2012, and pleaded guilty on Nov. 13, 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA -Charles R. Hood, 59, of Tallahassee, Florida was sentenced to thirty months in federal prison today for conversion of property listed as collateral on a mortgage loan.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, March 20, 2013 - Agriculture Undersecretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Kevin Concannon today announced a new federal-state partnership targeting recipient fraud in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). USDA will share its extensive experience in monitoring...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Philip Woolery, a former officer with the Grapevine, Texas, Police Department, appeared in federal court in Fort Worth today and pleaded guilty to an Information charging one count of production, and one count of possession, of child pornography. Woolery has been in custody since...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - United States Attorney David Capp announced that Jack Allen Schaap, 55, of Crete, Illinois, was sentenced by Senior District Judge Rudy Lozano to 144 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to the felony offense of transportation of a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON--Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, issued the following statement in response to the House Education and Workforce Committee's passage of a bill to prevent the National Labor Relations Board from conducting its work...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Dear Acting Administrator Tavenner: Over the past four years, Congress and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have worked to strengthen the Medicare Advantage (MA) Program. These efforts have boosted beneficiary confidence in the program, and Medicare Advantage now has robust enrollment...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: LONDON, KY - A federal jury in London, KY., found two Ashland, Ky., men guilty for their roles in a motorcycle theft ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Ronald Zajac, of Northville, Michigan, the General Counsel of Detroit's two pension funds, and Paul Stewart, of Detroit, Michigan, a former Trustee of Detroit's Police and Fire Retirement System were both charged today in a superseding indictment with participating in a bribery and kickback conspiracy involving over $200 million in investments before the two City of Detroit pension funds United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Meetings and Webinar Designed to Provide Information and Elicit Feedback from Public on Planning Efforts.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On March 7, 2013, a federal grand jury indicted 31 individuals as a result of an investigation led by the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and the Puerto Rico Police (PRPD), announced today by United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: “Good morning and thank you Mr. Chairman.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Thirteen men have been charged with federal firearms violations, drug trafficking or other crimes as a result of an ATF undercover investigation in Kansas City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom and ATF Special Agent In Charge Marino Vidoli announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Failed to Report Income and Assets Totaling Over $740,000 and Attempted to Fraudulently Discharge Debts of Over $1.1 million through Bankruptcy.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany, Jr. M.D. (R-LA) called on the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to release a copy of a video parody produced in the IRS’s television studio in New Carrollton, MD - a studio that may have cost taxpayers more than $4 million last year according to a review of contracts.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Committee on Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) introduced the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Extension Act of 2013. Under current law, the TANF program is authorized through March 27, 2013. The TANF Extension Act would extend the program’s authorization through Dec. 31, 2013.
