News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Wounded Knee, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon was sentenced on Nov. 15, 2013, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today voted to approve H.R. 1900, the Natural Gas Pipeline Permitting Reform Act, by a bipartisan vote of 252 to 165. Authored by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS), this bill will make commonsense reforms to the permitting process for interstate natural gas pipelines, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: -. LOUISVILLE, Ky. - David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky, announced the federal indictment this week, of two Louisville men, one a convicted felon, charged with robbing nine businesses located in Jefferson County, Kentucky. These federal charges stem from “Project...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released new documents uncovered in its investigation of the botched rollout of the president’s health care law, highlighting serious concerns among top administration IT officials in the week before launch. The documents are from September 26 to September 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent In (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and A. Lee Bentley, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announces today that a federal jury found Yugool (61, Guyana) and Desmond (54, Guyana) guilty of two counts...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Oversight Hearing: NRC's Implementation of the Fukushima Near-Term Task Force Recommendations and other Actions to Enhance and Maintain Nuclear Safety" Nov. 21, 2013 (Remarks as Prepared for Delivery) Today, the Environment and Public Works Committee is holding ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Hammond, Indiana - United States Attorney David Capp announced that a Superseding Indictment was returned yesterday charging Jesus Valentin Fuentes, 39, of Chicago and East Chicago, Kiontay Kyare Pennington, 34, of Gary, Indiana, Oscar Cosme, 41, of East Chicago, Indiana andAdron Herschel Tancil, 36, of East Chicago, Indiana,for the May 16, 2003 murder of Julio Cartagena in East Chicago, Indiana.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today continued its oversight of the development and build out of FirstNet and other emergency communications networks. FirstNet is a nationwide, interoperable broadband public safety network created...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Pasquale Pappalardo, 60, of Coral Springs, FL, and Audwin Lovinsky, 35, of Tamarac, FL, were both...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y - - Brian R. Crowell, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Drug Enforcement (DEA), New York Division and U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that James Hamilton, Jr., 29, of Buffalo, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - U.S. District Judge Michael H. Simon sentenced defendant Miles J. Julison to four years in federal prison and three years of post-release supervision for two counts of filing false claims against the United States. The sentencing hearing on Wednesday, November 19th followed a five-day...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: THE PRESIDENT : “We would not have rolled out something knowing very well that it wasn’t going to work the way it was supposed, given all the scrutiny that we knew was going to be on the website."
By State Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A cross section of elected leaders, public servants, activists, columnists and opinion shapers spanning the political spectrum are speaking out and offering their support in favor of ratifying the Disability Treaty.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: THE PRESIDENT : “We would not have rolled out something knowing very well that it wasn’t going to work the way it was supposed, given all the scrutiny that we knew was going to be on the website."
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: As part of President Obama's all-of-the-above strategy to continue to expand safe and responsible domestic energy production, a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) oil and gas lease auction today netted more than $11 million in revenues from the sale of 17 Federal leases totaling 5,554.45 acres in Roswell...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, 61-year-old businessman Charles Pircher pleaded guilty to his role in what is believed to be the largest real dollar loss fraud and tax related case ever prosecuted in the Western District of Texas announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez and IRS-Criminal Investigation Special Agent In Charge Steve McCullough.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest Resource Advisory Council will meet Thursday, Dec. 5 in Silt at the BLM’s Colorado River Valley Field Office, 2300 River Frontage Road.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released new documents uncovered in its investigation of the botched rollout of the president’s health care law, highlighting serious concerns among top administration IT officials in the week before launch. The documents are from September 26 to September 30.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Daren Kareem Gadsden, aka “D," age 36, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, to 286 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for a conspiracy to steal almost $1.4 million from a Housing Authority of Baltimore City bank account. Judge Quarles also ordered Gadsden to forfeit $1,399,700.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a jury in Harrisburg has found a York County man guilty of two counts of receipt of child pornography.
