News from May 2013
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., May 15, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee approved H.R. 1613, the “Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreements Authorization Act" with a bipartisan vote of 25-16. This important legislation would approve and implement the terms of the U.S. - Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement that governs the development of shared oil and natural gas resources along the U.S. - Mexico maritime border in the Gulf of Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Mack S. Varnado, Jr., 32, of Cantonment, was sentenced Tuesday afternoon as a result of his guilty plea on February 7, 2013, to a federal indictment charging him with the receipt and transportation of child pornography. The sentencing was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 38-year-old Yadira Mauricio Ybarra was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison for her role in a conspiracy to purchase machine guns and attempt to smuggle them into Mexico as well as bank fraud announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives - Houston Division Special Agent in Charge Melvin D. King, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations Special Agent in Charge Vincent Iglio.
By Homeland Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: GREENBELT, Md. - A federal grand jury Wednesday returned an indictment charging a Germantown, Md., man with attempted sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, and interstate transportation for prostitution, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Homeland Security...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska-U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a man from Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced in federal court for drug conspiracy and distribution of a controlled substance.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., MD (R-LA) sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius seeking answers to several questions surrounding the ObamaCare “navigators"...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 25-year-old Cass Lake felon pleaded guilty to possessing a.357-caliber revolver. Anthony Duane Howard pleaded guilty to one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Howard, who was indicted on March 12, 2013, entered his plea before United States District Court Judge Joan N. Ericksen.
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: This Office of Indian Energy webinar originally presented on May 15, 2013, features a panel of U.S. Department of Defense procurement officials providing details about military energy procurement requirements, statutory authorizations, current procurement vehicles, and regional and local command procurement requirements.
By State Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Bob Corker (R-TN) today introduced the Syria Transition Support Act, bipartisan legislation that plans for a post-Assad Syria by offering humanitarian assistance to the Syrian people, limited lethal and non-lethal weapons, and training to vetted Syrian groups.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Maurice Fair, 35, of Washington, D.C., pled guilty today to a charge of voluntary manslaughter while armed in a slaying that took place in 1995 at an apartment in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By State Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Karen Bass (D-CA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Human Rights and International Organizations, introduced bipartisan legislation to modernize U.S. international food...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - This afternoon, Johnny Charles Butler, 45, appeared before U.S. District Judge Jorge A. Solis and pleaded guilty to two counts of armed bank robbery, one count of assaulting a federal officer and one count of using and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence. His brother...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement on the report issued today by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA)...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury today returned an indictment charging Jean Claude Roy, a/k/a “Dredd the Don," and “Dreddy," age 30, of Germantown, Maryland, with attempted sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; and interstate transportation for prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DANIEL CARRIER, 34, formerly of Danielson, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before United States Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to one count of receipt and distribution of child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and all Republican Members of the Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius regarding reports the Secretary solicited donations from outside groups to promote and support ObamaCare.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: LAM NGUYEN, age 40, a resident of New Orleans, was sentenced today in federal court by U. S. District Judge Stanwood R. Duval, Jr., to four years probation for theft of government funds, announced U. S. Attorney Dana J. Boente. NGUYEN was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $47,808 to the Social Security Administration.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Mr. President, over the past five days, information that I can describe only as very troubling has emerged about a systematic practice by the IRS to target conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status.
By USDA Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 171,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: This morning, former City of Eagle Pass Department of Public Works employee Edgar Aguilar was sentenced to 42 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $68,373.87 in restitution for his role in a credit card fraud scheme involving the City of Eagle Pass announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez.
