News from March 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Alexis Pineda, 26, of Suitland, Md., was sentenced today to 18 years in prison on a charge stemming from the killing last year of a patron at a restaurant in Northwest Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2013
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.), along with Representative Howard Coble (R-N.C.), chairman of the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee and Representative Mel Watt (D-N.C.), ranking member of the Courts, Intellectual ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today continued its examination of the health care law’s impact on health insurance premiums. Members heard from former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin and an Actuarial Principal at Oliver Wyman, Christopher Carlson, on how these mandates will impact individuals, families, and the health care system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2013
News Release: A man who received child pornography was sentenced March 14, 2013, to 14 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-A federal indictment unsealed earlier today charges a 25-year-old Cass Lake felon with possessing a.357-caliber revolver. The indictment, which was filed on March 12, 2013, charges Anthony Duane Howard with one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. The indictment was unsealed following Howard’s initial appearance in federal court.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) commended the Obama Administration's new policy directive to improve federal property management, Freeze the Footprint. According to the Office of Management and Budget, the new policy instructs...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - United States Attorney Donald J. Cazayoux, Jr. announced today that KATELYN & CLAIRE, INC. and ALEX T, INC., both doing business as Quality Express, pled guilty before United States District Court Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson to conspiracy to launder monetary instruments and multiple...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, N.J., man today was sentenced to 163 months in prison for robbing three banks in Pennsauken, N.J., in November 2011 while on federal supervised release for bank robbery, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new Tax Policy Center analysis of the Republican budget today shows that the average millionaire would reap a $408,000 tax cut under Chairman Ryan’s proposal to reduce the top individual tax rate from 39.6% to 25%. The overall tax cuts in the Republican budget add an additional $5.7 trillion to the deficit, according to the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center, with the individual rate reductions alone responsible for ballooning the deficit by $3.5 trillion.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to five years probation with six months home detention with electronic monitoring, and was ordered to pay $100,821.64 in restitution on his conviction of theft of government property, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today urged President Obama to work with Congress to find bipartisan solutions to reform the nation’s entitlement programs to put the nation on a sound fiscal course. In a letter Hatch gave to the President today during a meeting with Senate Republicans, Hatch outlined five bipartisan structural reforms to the Medicare and Medicaid programs that he put forward earlier this year.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: Today at 11:15 a.m. EST, House Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairman John Kline (R-MN) will join Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) and House Republicans to tour the automotive program at the Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) in Alexandria and hold a press conference on this week’s House vote on the Supporting Knowledge and Investing in Lifelong Skills (SKILLS) Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pierre, South Dakota man was convicted of Possession of a Controlled Substance and sentenced on March 13, 2013 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 43-year-old Tyler, Texas, methadone clinic owner has been sentenced to federal prison in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: Thank you Mr. Chairman. Workers earn their Social Security disability protection. Nearly 160 million Americans contribute to Social Security, earning protection for themselves and their families when they retire, or if they should die or become severely disabled. Over its lifetime, Social Security has...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: Richard Tietjens Alleged to Have Amassed Thousands of Videos of Children Being Sexually Abused.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., March 14, 2013 - Today, the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing on “America’s Onshore Energy Resources: Creating Jobs, Securing America, and Lowering Prices." The hearing was an opportunity to hear from witnesses who own and operate businesses that have benefited from increased production of American oil and natural gas on state and private lands and examine why those same benefits aren’t being realized on federal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm that he used to threaten and beat a woman. Jervonz L. Williams, 37...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka business owner has pleaded guilty to writing more than 5,000 insufficient fund checks in a check kiting scheme, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - John Hall, 27, an Aryan Brotherhood member and inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) in Seagoville, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor after pleading guilty to violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act stemming...
