News from October 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Indictment Alleges She Used Local Church’s Website Illegally to Transmit.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - The former president of Port Arthur Chemical and Environmental Services, LLC (PACES) has been sentenced for occupational safety crimes which resulted in the death of an employee, announced John M. Bales, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, and Robert G. Dreher, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has scheduled a referendum for eligible watermelon producers, handlers and importers.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: At today’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Cheryl Campbell, a Senior Vice President at website contractor CGI Federal, refuted claims by House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa that CGI officials informed Committee staff at a briefing last week that the Administration ordered changes to the ACA website for political reasons in order to “mask the ‘sticker shock’ of ObamaCare to the American people."
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the September jobs report from the U.S. Department of Labor. A net total of 148,000 jobs were created and the unemployment rate for September decreased to 7.2 percent from 7.3 percent in August.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Axway, Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $6.2 million to settle allegations under the False Claims Act that it and its predecessors provided the General Services Administration (GSA) with defective pricing information in order to obtain and maintain a GSA Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) contract that permitted them to sell software licenses and related services to federal agencies at inflated prices.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Lauri Love, 28, of Stradishall, England was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed today with conspiracy to access and damage the protected computer networks of multiple U.S. government agencies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), ranking member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case of Mount Holly v. Mt. Holly ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 63-year-old Tyler, Texas eco-tourism guide has been sentenced for smuggling live snakes into the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: OAKLAND - Dontae Jerome Jones was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for failing to surrender to serve a previously imposed sentence, United States Attorney Melinda Haag announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Marion Carter, 58, of Richmond, Va., was sentenced today to 34 years in prison on three counts of robbery interfering with commerce and two counts of possessing a firearm in furtherance of those robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 40-year-old Jasper, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) will introduce legislation this evening to protect the many Americans whose health plans are being cancelled because of the health law. Time and again, in selling the health law to the American people, President Obama promised, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-On Oct. 29, 2013, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will lead a discussion on progress made and challenges ahead in improving diversity and inclusion in the military at a conference hosted by the German Marshall Fund entitled “Mission Critical: Diversity and Security."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, Manuel Orosa, Chief, City of Miami Police Department, and Sergio Velazquez, Chief, Hialeah Police Department, announce...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Subcommittee on Health Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) confirming that action must be taken by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) today unveiled draft legislation to address Environmental Protection Agency rules affecting electricity generation. The bipartisan legislation will ensure America can maintain a diverse and affordable electricity portfolio, which...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: ATLANTA - Jennifer C. Alsdorf has pleaded guilty to health care fraud for filing fraudulent claims with the Georgia Medicaid program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Texas man was sentenced in federal court today for transporting a minor across state lines to engage in prostitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement in response to the National Organization of Marriage lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service.
