News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Aggravated Sexual Abuse was sentenced on Oct. 29, 2013, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: A former investment broker who made false statements to banks, defrauded investors, and evaded taxes pled guilty today to eight felony offenses in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park invites the public to participate in a free walking tour on Sunday, Nov. 10, 2013 at 2:30 p.m. Led by Park Historian Jim Ogden this two hour, mile and a half, moderate difficulty walk will explore the Civil War Union artillery earthwork complex on...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Leaders today sent letters to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and four government contractors involved with implementation of the exchanges regarding rising security concerns surrounding the Federally Facilitated Marketplace.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eric Thomas Valley, 42, was sentenced this morning to 40 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction for domestic assault by a habitual offender. The sentence was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., Special Agent in Charge of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services, and Police Chief Vincent M. Mariano of the Acoma Tribal Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Debra Lightfoot, a/k/a "A.T.B.," 57, of Lititz, PA, was charged today by superseding indictment with transmitting a threat by interstate communications, and threat of assaulting, resisting, opposing, impeding, intimidating, or interfering with a Government Employee in the course of official...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 31, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Lee Terry (R-NE) issued the following statement in response to the Commerce Department’s new report on the economic benefits of Foreign Direct Investment and President Obama’s remarks today at the inaugural SelectUSA 2013 Investment Summit...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today released new documents that show CGI Federal, Inc., one of the major contractors who built HealthCare.gov, warned the Obama Administration of problems with the website just weeks before the October 1st launch date.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a Petersburg man was arraigned today on a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Juneau, Alaska, for the distribution, receipt, and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDREW MELILLO, 28, of Meriden, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing cocaine and oxycodone.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: CHRISTOPHER M. SCHWAB, age 24, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged yesterday in a Bill of Information with multiple counts of production of materials involving the sexual exploitation of children, distribution of child pornography, and receipt of child pornography, announced U. S. Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder today announced a total of $6.7 million in grants to state and local criminal and civil legal services organizations across the country that provide legal defense services for the poor. These grants from the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) are part of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Dr. Mikhail L. Presman, a licensed psychiatrist employed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), pleaded guilty today to health care fraud for falsely billing Medicare for home medical treatment to Medicare beneficiaries and agreed to forfeit more than $1.2 million in illegal profits. Acting Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: The government has intervened in a lawsuit filed under the False Claims Act against United States Investigations Services LLC (USIS) in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, the Department of Justice announced today. The lawsuit alleges that USIS, located in Falls Church, Va., failed ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Anthony Williams, a resident of Baton Rouge, La., pleaded guilty today to one count of threatening to retaliate against a witness in a federal criminal tax trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Salt Lake City returned a superseding indictment charging Macon Openshaw, 21, of Salt Lake City, on gun possession charges and a federal hate crime charge relating to a bias-motivated attack at a local synagogue.
By Fed Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in September generally suggests that economic activity has continued to expand at a moderate pace. Indicators of labor market conditions have shown some further improvement, but the unemployment rate remains elevated. Available data suggest ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker Remarks at National Competitiveness Forum Thank you, Chairman Allen. It’s great to be here with leaders in business, higher education, labor, and more. Over the past 4 months, I’ve visited 13 states and four countries. My primary goal has been to listen to America’s business community.
By Commerce News Now | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker Opinion Editorial, U-T San Diego "NAFTA Partners Seek to Build on Successes" Twenty years ago, the United States, Mexico, and Canada launched a bold experiment known as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which created the largest free trade area in the ...
By Commerce News Now | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Twenty years ago, the United States, Mexico, and Canada launched a bold experiment known as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which created the largest free trade area in the world. NAFTA removed trade barriers, opened our markets to one another, and allowed for unprecedented regional cooperation on a broad range of security, social, and commercial issues that have benefited each of our countries and economies.
