News from October 2013
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - This morning, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement upon receiving notification from the Department of Labor (DOL) that it is instructing states to recover any overpayments to those Federal employees who received unemployment benefits as a...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Mark Kandel, age 53, was sentenced today in federal court in Wilkes-Barre by U.S. District Judge A. Richard Caputo to 174 months’ imprisonment to be followed by a lifetime term of supervised release upon the completion of imprisonment and will be subject to the registration and reporting requirements of the Adam Walsh Act.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the availability of the Amchitka Island, Alaska, Biological Monitoring Report 2011 Sampling Results for the Amchitka, Alaska, site. The report provides the results of terrestrial and marine sampling in the areas surrounding Amchitka and Adak Islands in 2011 to determine whether local subsistence- and commercial-catch seafood is safe to eat.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Robert Thomas, 36, of Lakeworth, Fla., was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison for knowingly participating in a fraudulent telemarketing scam that victimized timeshare owners nationwide, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. In pronouncing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Antoine T. Thomas, 37, from East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced on Oct. 25, 2013, in Federal District Court in East St. Louis, on one count of unlawful possession of a firearm by a user of a controlled substance, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Thomas was sentenced to 12 months and a day in prison; two years supervised release, a $500 fine and ordered to pay a $100 special assessment.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Lowell, Massachusetts.Come join us for a film, a hands-on experience of weaving, and a facilitated conversation. Mone Saenphmmachak is a master weaver. She is also a Lao refugee, tormented by survivor guilt. Resettled in St. Louis during the 1980s, she finds factory seamstress work sewing gun holsters.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Wholesale Discount Market Inc. satisfied a reparation order issued under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney, William J. Hochul, Jr. announced that John Luchetti, 27, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 96 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alcario Emilio Provencio, 24, a member and resident of the Mescalero Apache Nation, pleaded guilty on Oct. 28, 2013, in Las Cruces federal court to assaulting a minor in Indian Country. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Provencio will be sentenced to 36 months of imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Committee on Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI), Ranking Member Sandy Levin (D-MI), Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA), and Human Resources Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) introduced the Promoting Adoption and Legal Guardianship for Children in Foster Care Act.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Tomatoes are a $2 billion crop in the United States, but a common complaint is that the varieties in supermarkets often lack the flavor of locally grown varieties. To improve flavor, breeders need to know more about the types of tomatoes that hold the greatest potential for enhancing taste.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: A Grosse Ile businessman was found guilty today by a federal jury of conspiracy and one count of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Jevon M. Jenkins, from East St. Louis, Illinois, was sentenced in federal court today to 168 months in federal prison for Aiding and Abetting Kidnapping, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Sea Music Duo Perform Concert Aboard 1886 Sailing Ship At National Park.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement regarding the Health and Human Services release of its estimated 2014 premiums for the 36 states with ObamaCare Exchanges.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Burlington County, N.J., man today admitted his role in producing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Defendant and Co-Conspirators Attempted to Fraudulently Obtain Millions of Dollars in Tax Refunds for Their Own Use and Benefit.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit drug courier who arrived at a Huntington Greyhound Bus Station in April 2013 in possession of heroin was sentenced today to 21 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Jalin Tyref McArn, 19, previously pleaded guilty in July to possession of heroin with intent to distribute.
By State Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the next steps on U.S. policy toward Egypt. At the hearing, senior State Department, Defense Department, and USAID officials will testify.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A 23-year-old Michigan felon faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to a federal firearm possession charge, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Deandrew Fizer III, of Romulus, Mich., pleaded guilty today before Chief United States District Judge Robert C. Chambers...
