News from November 2013
By DOL Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: The House Education and the Workforce Committee, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing to discuss proposals to strengthen career and technical education (CTE) through a reauthorization of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. The Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education held a related hearing in September to discuss challenges facing CTE programs.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) issued the following statement regarding Sen. Baucus’ international business tax reform discussion draft...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Dwaine Charles Idleman (66, Jacksonville) to 5 years in prison for receiving child pornography over the Internet. Idleman was also ordered to serve a 5-year term of supervised release, following his incarceration, and to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Monday affirmed the 65-month prison sentence imposed by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley on Jeffrey Olson for his scheme to defraud investors of $2.8 million and for violating conditions of his supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Ruth Antuanet Miller, 35, originally from Peru but now a resident of Arlington, Va., pleaded guilty today to Conspiracy to Commit Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud and Coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Alrick Michael Escalante, 21, of Sells, Ariz., and a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, was sentenced to 6 ½ years prison on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, following a guilty plea to voluntary manslaughterby U.S. District Judge David C. Bury. Escalante pled guilty to voluntary manslaughter on May 16, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Carl W. Hoecker, Inspector General of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Office of the Inspector General (“SEC-OIG"), today announced charges against STEVEN GILCHRIST, a Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC") Compliance...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) wrote to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner requesting that CMS make all information regarding enrollment in the ObamaCare Exchanges immediately available.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued a subpoena to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to provide all data the agency has on enrollment in the Exchanges. The subpoena, which is the second Camp has issued as Chairman, comes after CMS refused to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: NEW ALBANY - Joseph H. Hogsett, the United States Attorney, was in Floyd County today to acknowledge the presentation of a U.S. Attorney Award to a number of local and federal law enforcement officers. Joined by Sheriff Darrell Mills, Hogsett applauded the significant impact that federal-local collaboration has had in Southern Indiana. Those receiving awards today included.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Sandy Springs: This fall, the National Park Service brought over 800 elementary school students on free field trips to Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area (CRNRA) through the National Park Foundation’s “Ticket to Ride" grant. The field trips benefited specific schools in the metro Atlanta area...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pearsall, Texas, man convicted of Distribution of a Controlled Substance was sentenced on Nov. 18, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of his continuing efforts on tax reform, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) today unveiled an international tax reform staff discussion draft. The proposal - the first in a series of discussion drafts to overhaul America’s tax code - details ideas on how to reform...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - As the House and Senate work to reconcile differing versions of legislation to implement an Obama Administration deal with Mexico to develop oil and gas resources in the Gulf of Mexico, three leading House Democratic lawmakers called on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) to reject...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Christopher A. Knox, age 50, of Clarkston, Washington, was sentenced after having previously pleaded guilty on July 23, 2013 to Attempted Production of Child Pornography. United States District Court Judge Edward F. Shea sentenced Knox to a fifteen year term of imprisonment, to be followed by a life term of court supervision after he is released from Federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the September jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 204,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for October increased to 7.3 percent from 7.2 percent in September.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: MEDFORD, Ore. - Kenneth Johnson, 62 and Diana Arredondo, 56 pled guilty to federal charges stemming from their work at the Super 8 Hotel in Central Point, Oregon. Johnson pled guilty to wire fraud and filing a false tax return. Arredondo pled guilty to filing a false tax return. The maximum penalty for...
By Interior Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: GYPSUM, Colo. - Work to enhance wildlife habitat on public land through a cooperative project between the Town of Gypsum and the Bureau of Land Management is set to begin this month southeast of Gypsum.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 240,000 metric tons of soybeans to China during the 2014/2015 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 19, 2013
News Release: The owner of a Dearborn, Michigan, based real estate company was sentenced to 110 months in prison, and a former Dearborn attorney was sentenced to 48 months in prison following their convictions for bank fraud and commercial bribery, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
