News from May 2013
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Donnie Wright, 53, of Lubbock, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 37 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $385,356 in restitution following his guilty plea in February 2013 to one count of bank embezzlement by a bank employee. Judge Cummings ordered that Wright surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on June 20, 2013. Today’s announcement was made by U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today continued their examination into reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may have solicited funding or assistance from the health care industry to help implement the health care law. According to The New York...
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee today voiced their support to fully repeal the president’s health care law. Since the reforms became law three years ago, the committee has conducted rigorous oversight to educate the American people on the law’s impact on patients, providers, the economy, and states. With each day that passes, the committee continues to discover more consequences as a result of the law’s mandates, fees, policies, and taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles sentenced Hubert Downer, a/k/a “Doc, age 52, of Jamaica, today to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for murder in aid of racketeering.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Roommate Shot, Defendant Arrested For Guns And Drugs.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today continued their examination into reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may have solicited funding or assistance from the health care industry to help implement the health care law. According to The New York...
By US DOT Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: The Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure today passed legislation on a bipartisan basis to approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, a project long-delayed by the President that will create thousands of American jobs and increase domestic energy security.
By US DOT Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, yesterday requested information in a letter to Ms. Michelle DePass, Assistant Administrator of the ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael J. DePalma, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and Alysa Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s, Homeland Security Investigations...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on May 15, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, JERARD DAVID JO THREEFINGERS, a 23-year-old resident of Lame Deer and an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne Tribe, pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter. Sentencing has been set for September 9, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Great Falls, on May 16, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge, ONEY JOSEPH BAKER, a 39-year-old resident of Great Falls, pled guilty to being a felon-in-possession of firearms and an armed career criminal. Sentencing has been set for Aug. 16, 2013. He is currently detained.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittees on Energy and Power and Environment and the Economy today held a joint hearing to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget request. Members questioned EPA Acting Administrator Bob Perciasepe on a range of issues...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Earlier today in federal court, two Rochester, Minnesota, women were sentenced for providing material support to al-Shabaab, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. United States District Court Chief Judge Michael J. Davis sentenced Amina Farah Ali, age 36, to 240 months in federal...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Antowaun Lynch, 29, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 50-month prison term on federal drug and weapons offenses stemming from a search in which he was caught by police with a gun and phencyclidine (PCP), announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above strategy to support safe and responsible domestic energy production, the Department of the Interior today announced the release of an updated draft proposal that would establish commonsense safety standards for hydraulic fracturing...
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: Washington - In wake of the Rana Plaza building collapse, which killed more than 1,100 people, Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus Joe Crowley (D-NY), founder and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Bangladesh, Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Ways...
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today continued their examination into reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may have solicited funding or assistance from the health care industry to help implement the health care law. According to The New York...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Dannis Eugene Hardy, 30, of Mobile, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court yesterday for his participation in a conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine. Hardy entered a guilty plea to the charges in January of this year.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “Fraud on the Elderly: A Growing Concern for a Growing Population." Members heard from witnesses from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Bureau of Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Shelly Nichols, 42, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to identity theft and aggravated identity theft charges. Nichols’s guilty plea was announced by U.S. Attorney Kenneth J. Gonzales and Richard Ferretti, Resident Agent in Charge of the Albuquerque Resident Office of the U.S. Secret Service.
