News from May 2013
By EPA Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today advanced legislation to secure America’s prescription drug supply chain and reauthorize two important drug user fee programs for new and generic animal drugs.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced H.R. 271, the Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act. The commonsense legislation, introduced by Reps. Pete Olson (R-TX) and Mike Doyle (D-PA), will ensure America’s power companies are able to comply with Department...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - A federal grand jury in Memphis has returned a one-count indictment charging Justin Shawn Baker, 25, of Jackson, TN, with violating the civil rights of students and faculty of the Margolin Hebrew Academy.
By USDA Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: Conservation Compliance Agreement Garners Widespread Praise, Links Conservation Requirements to Crop Insurance
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced H.R. 271, the Resolving Environmental and Grid Reliability Conflicts Act. The commonsense legislation, introduced by Reps. Pete Olson (R-TX) and Mike Doyle (D-PA), will ensure America’s power companies are able to comply with Department...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today advanced legislation to secure America’s prescription drug supply chain and reauthorize two important drug user fee programs for new and generic animal drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - Phillip Monroe Ballard, 71, has been charged with murder for hire, United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson of the Southern District of Texas announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: PEDRO FERNANDEZ-GARCIA, age 40, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today in federal court by U. S. District Judge Sarah S. Vance, announced U. S. Attorney Dana Boente. FERNANDEZ was sentenced to six months imprisonment. In addition to the term of imprisonment, Judge Vance ordered that FERNANDEZ be placed...
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today advanced legislation to secure America’s prescription drug supply chain and reauthorize two important drug user fee programs for new and generic animal drugs.
By USDA Newswire | May 14, 2013
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, May 14, 2013 - USDA Under Secretary Kevin Concannon today announced the department is making significant progress towards achieving greater integrity in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. In efforts to identify and reduce fraud, USDA took the following actions through the second quarter fiscal year 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: BRUNSWICK, GA: STANLEY SMITH, 61, of Douglas, Georgia, pled guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood for distributing drugs to his customers without a legitimate medical purpose.
By Commerce Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Using a powerful combination of microanalytic techniques that simultaneously image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a micrometer scale, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have shed new light on what may become a cost-effective way to generate hydrogen gas directly from water and sunlight.*
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - Two area physicians and three health clinic co-owners are among seven defendants charged here with engaging in five separate, unrelated health care fraud schemes to defraud the Medicare program and/or private health insurers of millions of dollars, federal law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Elizabeth D. Kupfer, 50, of Rio Rancho, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 36 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for her tax evasion conviction. Mrs. Kupfer also was ordered to pay $288,339 in restitution to the IRS. The restitution is to be paid jointly by Mrs. Kupfer and her husband Joseph C. Kupfer, 49, who also was convicted of tax evasion.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Little Rock - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and Randall C. Coleman, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Little Rock Field Office announced that a 25-count indictment handed down by a federal grand jury on May 2, 2013, was...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, a 26-year-old Michigan man, formerly of Chisholm, was charged with defrauding customers of Memory Lane Classics, a company that restored and rebuilt classic cars. Edwin Scott Verdung was specifically charged via an Information with one count of wire fraud and one count of transaction money laundering. He allegedly defrauded customers out of more than $1 million.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: National Park Service News Release. - MAY 14, 2013. KAREN HUGHES, ACTING CHIEF RANGER, MOCA/TUZI, 928-567-3322 X223. Teachers Become Rangers at Montezuma Well. RIMROCK, Ariz. - Each summer, children from around the Verde Valley descend on Montezuma Well for Junior Ranger Day Camps. Kids between 8 and 16...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - Clyde Craig was sentenced yesterday to 15 years in prison for distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By USDA Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Grants Also Support "Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnership" Initiative WASHINGTON, May 14, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is seeking applications from qualified organizations to provide technical assistance to rural businesses to help them expand and create ...
By USDA Newswire | May 14, 2013
News Release: Announces Organic Crop Insurance, Other Measure Washington, May 14, 2013 ― Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today discussed his vision for U.S. organic agriculture and USDA efforts to ensure its continued success during remarks to the Organic Trade Association. Vilsack announced a number of changes ...
