News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - A joint, cooperative investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and multiple local law enforcement agencies has resulted in the federal grand jury returning am indictment against WARREN J. GLADDERS, Wentzville, Missouri, for multiple armed bank robberies committed by Gladders...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Tampa resident Thomas Crouch (66) to one year, and one month in federal prison for theft of government funds. The court also entered a forfeiture money judgment in the amount of $124,944.00, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct.
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed the bipartisan H.Res. 404, a resolution that expresses deep sympathy and support to the people of the Philippines for the terrible loss of life and massive destruction as a result of Typhoon Haiyan, which landed on November 8, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: NOV 20 (WEST PALM BEACH, FL) - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in (SAC), Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division; Vito S. Guarino, SAC, DEA, Caribbean Division; and Angel M. Melendez, SAC, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security (ICE-HSI), San Juan and U.S. Virgin Islands; ...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Two female nēnē were killed recently by speeding motorists on Crater Road. One fatality occurred outside the park near mile marker 9, the other occurred at the Hosmer Grove intersection inside the park.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a business meeting to consider Jeh C. Johnson’s nomination to be Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Ranking Member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) highlighted the Committee’s decision to favorably report out this important nomination by voice vote. The nomination now goes to the full Senate for consideration.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee, blasted Republicans on the House floor for proposing legislation that would strip federal agencies’ authority to enforce nearly every public health, safety, and environmental protection related to drilling...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON -In a Senate Finance Committee hearing today, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) backed the nominations of Sarah Bloom Raskin to serve as deputy secretary of the Treasury Department and Rhonda Schnare Schmidtlein to be a commissioner of the U.S. International Trade Commission. Senator Baucus said the nominees will fill critical roles in helping develop U.S. economic policy, protecting taxpayers and fighting for U.S. businesses and workers.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: On Nov. 13, 2013, two hospitals and a small Wisconsin school district joined an elite club of organizations: winners of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. The award is the nation's highest Presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement and visionary leadership.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Syracuse, NY- United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian announced the indictment of ten (10) individuals in connection with a large synthetic marijuana distribution organization in Central New York. Those arrested in the synthetic marijuana distribution conspiracy this morning include the following.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: The Capitol Reef National Park Visitor Center operating hours will be 8:00 am to 4:30 pm daily starting Sunday Dec. 1, 2013. Enjoy the 18-minute park movie "Watermark", exhibits and bookstore.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former treasurer of both the Wellington Napoleon Fire Protection District and Special Road District pleaded guilty in federal court today to a fraud scheme in which he embezzled more than $1.5 million from the two districts.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Ronald W. Sharpe, United States Attorney for the District of the Virgin Islands, Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Division, Vito S. Guarino, Special Agent...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement today after a Council of Economic Advisors report revealed that the Affordable Care Act has helped slow health care spending to 1.3 percent over the last three years, the lowest three-year increase ever...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - Rools Deslouches, a Brentwood, New York, nurse practitioner, pled guilty today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to illegally distributing the highly addictive painkiller oxycodone to customers, whom the defendant knew were drug dealers and addicts, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A New Hampshire man was charged yesterday with robbing a bank in Methuen.
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A wide range of business groups, veteran organizations, and disability advocates are expressing their support for ratifying the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
By State Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Central African Republic and Joseph Kony of the Lord’s Resistance Army...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Congressman Trey Radel, 37, pled guilty today in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia to a misdemeanor charge of possession of cocaine, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Karl C. Colder, Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Division Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 20, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In continuing his push to overhaul America’s tax code, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today unveiled a series of proposals to make the U.S. tax system simpler and safer for families and businesses across America.
