News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Walt Green announced that LINDA M. JACKSON, age 51, of Plaquemine, Louisiana, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson to serve sixty (60) months in federal prison for her role in a two-year health care fraud scheme that she perpetrated in the Baton Rouge area.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Hugo Barrera, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Miami Field Office, announce that defendant Lionell Sanders (a/k/a “Pistol," and “Briscoe"), 19, of Miami, Florida, was...
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks, as prepared for delivery, at today’s Full Committee markup of H.R. 3212, the Sean and David Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act of 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: NEW YORK - Bridget G. Brennan, New York City’s Special Narcotics Prosecutor and Brian R. Crowell, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, New York Division Special Agent in Charge announced the conviction by jury of Robert Adrian as a major narcotic trafficker under New York State's drug kingpin statute, which carries a possible life sentence.
By State Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee, chaired by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), unanimously passed H.R. 3212, Sean and David Goldman International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act of 2013. The bipartisan legislation, authored by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), strengthens procedures for the prompt return of children abducted to other countries.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: U.S. Attorney for the District of Wyoming Christopher A. Crofts announced that on Sept. 26, 2013, Robert Felter Jr., a 22-year-old Northern Arapaho Tribal Member, was charged in an Indictment with one count of felony child abuse in Indian Country, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1153 and W.S. § 6-2-503.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: Former Louisiana State Representative GIROD JACKSON, 41, pleaded guilty today in federal court before U.S. District Judge Jane Triche Milazzo to a three count Bill of Information, which charged him with violating provisions of the United States Tax Code, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: On Jan. 27, 1838, a young state legislator named Abraham Lincoln spoke before a gathering in Springfield, Illinois. At the time, America was a deeply-divided nation and Lincoln warned that the greatest threats to the democracy were internal.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former employee of an Albany, Georgia transportation company has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud related to a scheme to overcharge the Department of Defense (DOD) for transportation services rendered through the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), resulting in the loss of...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today issued the following comment on the Department of the Interior’s announcement that it would allow some national parks to open if states pay for the operating costs:
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - In advance of a joint congressional committee hearing and after repeated inquiries from numerous governors, the Department of the Interior today announced that the National Park Service would finally “consider" reopening sites where state resources can take over.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a Senate Finance Committee hearing today with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.) warned that Congress must reopen the government and avoid breaching the debt limit or risk plunging the U.S. back into a deep recession.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 10, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held a legislative hearing on H.R. 3189, the Water Rights Protection Act, sponsored by Congressman Scott Tipton (CO-03), which protects privately held water rights, prohibits federal water grabs and...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Oct. 10, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing entitled “EPA vs. American Mining Jobs: The Obama Administration’s Regulatory Assault on the Economy." This hearing examined the onerous federal regulations and...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining the nation’s debt limit with Treasury Secretary Jack Lew...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), announce the conviction and sentencing of Honduran national Fausto Aguero Alvarado, 40.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: Saul Hermosillo-Reyes, 25, of Mexico, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Scott W. Skavdahl on Oct. 10, 2013, for illegal re-entry of a previously deported alien into the United States. Hermosillo-Reyes was arrested in Casper, Wyoming. He received time served plus ten days, was ordered to...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today held a forum on “The Geopolitical Implications and Mutual Benefits of U.S. LNG exports." Diplomats and energy advisors from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Haiti, India, Lithuania, Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, and the Commonwealth of...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., today requested more information from Health and Human Services about the significant problems plaguing the launch of federal health insurance exchanges established under Obamacare.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 10, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Rear Admiral John H. Korn, Commander, 7th Coast Guard District, and Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Miami Field Office, announce the indictment of twelve defendants for their alleged participation in the smuggling of Cubans to the United States.
