News from October 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: U.S. national and economic security depends on the reliable functioning of critical infrastructure. In recognition of that dependence, President Obama issued an executive order in February 2013 to increase our critical infrastructure's capabilities to manage cyber risk; the order focuses on information...
By DOL Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, issued the following statement after the HELP Committee approved two nominees-Michael Keith Yudin and James Cole Jr. - to serve at the Department of Education, and one nominee-Chai...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Joseph Anarumo, Jr., Special-Agent-in-Charge of the New York Division of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF"), and Raymond W. Kelly, the Police Commissioner of the City of New York...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special agents of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations (ICE HSI)and officers of the Boonton Township Police Department arrested a Boonton Township, N.J., man at his home this morning on a charge that he distributed sexually explicit images of children from his home computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a hearing today on lavish conference spending at the Department of Veterans Affairs, John Sepulveda, former Assistant Secretary for Human Resources and Administration at the Department, asserted his fifth amendment privilege and refused to testify about two conferences held by the Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE RIVERA, 41, of Waterbury, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 117 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for robbing banks in Waterbury and New Britain.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Michael Henderson, a former Captain with Murray County Sheriff’s Office, has been sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for obstructing a public corruption investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Waynesboro, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 72 months in prison and five years supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to possess and distribute cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the Committee approved six bipartisan bills at an executive session today. Two of the bills - the Streamlining Claims Processing for...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: In San Antonio this morning, U.S. District Judge David A. Ezra sentenced Israel Hernandez, Jr., of Rio Bravo, TX, to 300 months in federal prison for his role in a crystal methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy plus an additional 30 months in federal prison for violating his supervised release announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Javier Pena.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: The winter season brings shorter days and stormy weather, but it also heralds one of the most spectacular seasons at Point Reyes National Seashore. Elephant seals begin to haul out onto the beaches on the Point Reyes Headlands in December and gray whales can be seen from late December through March. In preparation for the season, our three visitor centers will operate under winter hours beginning on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Charges Are The Result Of A Joint FBI And NYPD Investigation Of More Than 125 Burglaries And Attempted Burglaries Of Pharmacies In Manhattan, The Bronx, Queens And Brooklyn Since 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney(s Office announced that during a federal court session in Missoula, on Oct. 30, 2013, before Chief U.S. District Judge Dana L. Christensen, MACKENZIE RICHARD KEENE JOINER, age 29, and AUSTIN LEO TIMOTHY HAGMAN, age 23, residents of Missoula, were each sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A 38-year-old Ohio man was sentenced to ten years and ten months in federal prison for his role in a crack cocaine distribution conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Renardo Darnell Owens, of Akron, Ohio, previously pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: A St. Louis man, Walter W. Wallace, Jr., 26, convicted of Armed Bank Robbery of the Caseyville, Ill., branch of the First Collinsville Bank, and Interference with Commerce by Armed Robbery of the Granite City location of Advance America, was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison on Oct. 30, 2013...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following opening statement today at a committee hearing examining the opportunities and challenges of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Agreement...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Upcoming Webinars. November 5: Live Webinar on Intra-organization Energy Efficiency Competitions. Webinar Sponsor: EERE’s Better Buildings Initiative. The Energy Department will present a live webinar titled “Intra-organization Energy Efficiency Competitions" on Tuesday, November 5, from 3:00 p.m. to...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Oct. 30, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, the following individual was arraigned.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) today asserted that a new farm bill is an opportunity for the Congress to demonstrate that lawmakers can work together on issues that affect the lives of Americans every day.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, along with U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W. Va.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), and James Inhofe (R-Okla.), sent a letter to Jo-Ellen Darcy, Assistant Secretary ...
