News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: COLUMBIA, S.C. - South Carolinians participating in the United States Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) seventh National Prescription Drug Take-Back event on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2013, turned in 5,527.18 pounds of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at sites set up throughout the state.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ann Marie Laurini, 48, of Fairport, N.Y., was charged by criminal complaint with lying to Special Agents of the Internal Revenue Service. The carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Catholic priest pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - The results of the November 2013 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - The Transportation and Infrastructure Committee will hold an oversight hearing next Thursday to examine the status of Hurricane Sandy recovery efforts and federal agencies’ progress in implementing recovery objectives, allocating assistance funding, and meeting associated deadlines.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Cleveland returned a four-count indictment charging Daniel Dillon, age 50, of Los Angeles, with making interstate threatening communications, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives will consider H.R. 3350, the Keep Your Health Plan Act, next week. The Keep Your Health Plan Act was introduced by Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and has been cosponsored by more than 130 members. The bill would allow health plans currently available on the individual market to continue next year, providing Americans the opportunity to continue to enroll in those plans without penalty under the health care law.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: SEATTLE - The American people have again responded in droves to the most recent DEA-led National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Last Saturday, residents across the country turned in 647,211 (324 tons) of expired and unwanted medications for safe and proper disposal at the 5,683 take-back sites that...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on November 7, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah C. Lynch, MARK LAWRENCE WILSON, a 45-year-old resident of Big Fork, was arraigned and pled guilty to unlawful drug user in possession of firearms and ammunition. Sentencing is set for Feb. 20, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement in response to the release of an Office of Management and Budget report documenting damage done by the October 2013 federal government shutdown...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Three people were indicted on charges that they conspired to pass counterfeit money totalling more than $10,000, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JONATHAN PRESTON, 22, and LUMI NUNEZ, 33, of Hartford, were arrested today on a criminal complaint alleging that they operated an extensive identity theft and credit card fraud scheme, and engaged in counterfeiting offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: “Today’s report proves what the American people already know. The government shutdown was a shameful and damaging episode that we can’t afford to repeat.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. B Federal agents arrested a New Hampshire man in Hampton, N.H., on charges that he illegally trafficked firearms through New Jersey on an underground, Internet-based marketplace known as “Black Market Reloaded," New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sens. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) introduced the Return Our State Shares (ROSS) Act, which would exempt certain programs, including the RESTORE Act, from unnecessary sequestration delays that do not ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Obama Administration officials have blamed HealthCare.gov’s disastrous performance on unexpectedly high visitor traffic, but new testing documents released by House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., state that the day before the website launch it was only “able to reach 1100 users before response time gets too high."
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two former clinic staffers and a physician assistant’s wife have all been ordered to prison for conspiracy to defraud Medicare and the Texas Medicaid program in the operation of the Mission Clinic and La Hacienda Family Clinic, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee made the following statement after the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) released a report today outlining the correct approach the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should be utilizing in chemical assessments. ...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Democrats today released a report on Emergency Unemployment Compensation ahead of the pending year-end expiration of the federal program that highlights how 1.3 million Americans will immediately be cut off from unemployment insurance the week of Dec. 28 if Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 7, 2013
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that David Ritchie II, 23, of Enosburg Falls, Vermont, was sentenced on Oct. 16, 2013, in United States District Court in Rutland, Vermont, to serve eight-months imprisonment following his guilty plea to one count of...
