News from November 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Crew Netted Over 750 Kilograms Of Cocaine And $4 Million In Drug Proceeds In More Than 100 Robberies - Murder Victim Was One Of Many Victims Kidnaped And Tortured By Crew.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule setting out Renewable Fuel Standard targets for 2014, which attempts to address concerns with the RFS for the upcoming year. The Energy and Commerce Committee, through a...
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today responded to the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule setting out Renewable Fuel Standard targets for 2014, which attempts to address concerns with the RFS for the upcoming year. The Energy and Commerce Committee, through a...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - On Nov. 14, 2013, a federal jury in Albany found YANG CHIA TIEN, a/k/a ANDREW TIEN, 62, of Queens, NY, guilty of three counts of bribery of a public official, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian, Homeland Security Investigations Assistant Special Agent in Charge...
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, wrote a second letter to AllenCo calling on the company to immediately suspend operations at its oil and gas pumping facility in the University Park neighborhood in South Los Angeles while an investigation is conducted into reports of severe chemical odors affecting the community.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Since its introduction on Wednesday, a broad range of advocates and experts has expressed support for Senate HELP Chairman Tom Harkin’s (D-IA) Strong Start for America’s Children Act, a bill that would expand access to high-quality early learning programs for children from birth to...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, N.J., man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for his role in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) applauded today’s House passage of H.R. 3350, the Keep Your Health Plan Act. The House of Representatives approved the Keep Your Heath Plan Act by a vote of 261 to 157.
By State Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, along with Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, introduced the Naval Vessel and Arms Export Control Amendments Act of 2013, H.R. 3470, which strengthens ties with key U.S. security partners by transferring ships that meet shared maritime security requirements. On Wednesday, Nov. 20, the Committee will meet at 10 a.m. to consider the legislation.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy expressing concerns regarding EPA’s proposed greenhouse gas New Source Performance Standards for new power plants that would require the installation of carbon capture...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Liberty, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges related to methamphetamine trafficking and illegally possessing firearms.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today continued its Our Nation of Builders series with a hearing focused on efforts to train a science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) workforce, which is essential for America’s manufacturing...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - John S. Dudley, age 59, of Sandy, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud in February in connection with a fraudulent investment scheme, will serve 60 months in federal prison. U.S. District Judge Robert J. Shelby, who imposed the sentence this week, also ordered Dudley to pay $6.8 million in restitution to victims of the fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANATOLY GOLUBCHIK pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to participating in a racketeering conspiracy in connection with his role as a member of a Russian-American organized crime enterprise. ILLYA...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Drug Trafficking Organization Based in Stephenville, Texas, is.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO/GOTHAM - Edward “E." Nigma, aka, “The Riddler," and Oswald Chesterfield Cobblepot, aka, “The Penguin" were formally arrested today and charged with multiple counts of conspiracy and kidnapping for their all too familiar villainous ways in Gotham City, according to Melinda Haag, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: Chance W. Young, 29, of Fairfield, Illinois, pled guilty today in United States District Court in Benton to an indictment charging him with knowingly possessing stolen firearms, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The indictment, returned by a...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today unveiled a series of documents provided by the Department of Health and Human Services from July 2013 that reveal the administration internally voicing serious concerns about the progress of the HealthCare.gov website. Among the concerns raised by senior officials was the ability to meet the October 1 launch date and the impact the compressed timeframe would have on testing of the site.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2013
News Release: In Austin today, 34-year-old Antonio Cervantez of Austin, dubbed by law enforcement as the “Trick or Treat Bandit," was sentenced to 11 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for committing several Austin bank robberies announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman, FBI Special Agent in Charge Armando Fernandez, San Antonio Division, and Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo.
