News from October 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - During today’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on PPACA Implementation Failures: Answers from HHS, Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) questioned Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about a presentation made by lead contractor CGI Federal (CGI) on Oct. 11, 2013. Secretary Sebelius testified...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - During today’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on PPACA Implementation Failures: Answers from HHS, Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) questioned Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about a presentation made by lead contractor CGI Federal (CGI) on Oct. 11, 2013. Secretary Sebelius testified...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement at the first Farm Bill conference committee meeting...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - During today’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on PPACA Implementation Failures: Answers from HHS, Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) questioned Secretary Kathleen Sebelius about a presentation made by lead contractor CGI Federal (CGI) on Oct. 11, 2013. Secretary Sebelius testified...
By EPA Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) provided a brief recap following today’s full committee hearing on PPACA Implementation Failures: Answers from HHS with Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Now five weeks into the botched rollout, administration officials have set...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Kyle McCormack, 26, from Oklahoma City, was sentenced to serve a year probation and pay $500 fine after being convicted of illegal transportation of wildlife in interstate commerce, a violation of the Lacey Act, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: A former City of Cleveland employee was sentenced to six months in prison followed by six months of house arrest for attempting to extort bribes from three companies in connection with his employment as a contract compliance officer, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cleveland office.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) provided a brief recap following today’s full committee hearing on PPACA Implementation Failures: Answers from HHS with Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Now five weeks into the botched rollout, administration officials have set...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: PLANO, Texas - Infosys Corporation, an Indian company involved in consulting, technology, and outsourcing, has agreed to a civil settlement of allegations of systemic visa fraud and abuse of immigration processes by paying a record settlement amount and agreeing to enhanced corporate compliance measures...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Defendant Displayed Police Badge, Terrorized Women And Young Children With A Gun During Attempted Robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On Oct. 28, 2013, Gjergj Kol Mihilli, 61, of Gilbert, Ariz., was sentenced to 51 months in prison and ordered to pay $302,420.64 by U. S. District Judge G. Murray Snow. The defendant previously pled guilty to bank fraud and aggravated identity theft for concocting the following scheme.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today delivered the following opening remarks at the first public meeting of the House-Senate Farm Bill conference committee. The meeting officially marks the beginning of the conference committee ...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: The famed author George Bernard Shaw once wrote, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.".
By Interior Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Carlsbad Caverns Gets New Superintendent. CARLSBAD, New Mexico - Being a native of El Paso, Texas, Dennis Vásquez felt like he came "home" when he moved back to the Chihuahuan desert from the East Coast. Vásquez, Superintendent of Guadalupe Mountains National Park, has accepted a dual-role of managing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an employee of the Kansas City, Mo., Municipal Court pleaded guilty in federal court today to stealing more than $185,000 from the city’s health insurance provider, along with hundreds of other public employees, by falsely claiming to have run marathons and competed in other athletic events for cash incentives.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) took to the Senate Floor to urge his colleagues to confirm the Nomination of Katherine Archuleta to be the Director of the Office of Personnel Management.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Utah. Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013. Charges Allege He Fired Several Rounds from a Handgun at the Synagogue. SALT LAKE CITY - A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned a four-count indictment Wednesday afternoon charging Macon Michael Openshaw...
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Ranking Member Eliot Engel, the senior Democratic member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and a Farm bill conferee, gave the following remarks at the first meeting of the conference committee.
By State Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - At the Farm Bill conference committee’s opening meeting today at 2:30 p.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will continue to advocate for the need to reform U.S. international food aid to help more people facing starvation, more quickly,...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2013
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. - Freeport physician Robert L. Ignasiak, Jr., 58, pled guilty yesterday to 12 counts of health care fraud, 29 counts of illegally distributing controlled substances, and one count of failing to appear for trial. The plea was announced by Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, and Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
