News from October 2013
By Commerce 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 DOE 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: BOISE - After a lengthy investigation and review of more than three years, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Idaho announced today that the Department of Justice is declining prosecution under federal criminal civil rights statutes of inmate-on-inmate assaults at the Idaho Correctional Center.
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Sean Jason Romanjenko, age 39, of Deadwood, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Veronica L. Duffy on Oct. 18, 2013, and pled guilty to a charge of Felon in Possession of a Firearm.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement in response to an announcement by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid that the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), a bill that would prohibit workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, would...
By EPA 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: WICHITA, KAN. - Two Texas men have been resentenced on Lacey Act charges of conspiracy, wildlife trafficking and obstruction of justice related to the sale of guided deer hunts in southern Kansas, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Defendant Worked for Cushing MLP Asset Management, LP in Dallas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that the U.S. District Court of Nevada has approved a settlement in which the owners and operators of Rosewood Park Apartments, a 902 unit apartment complex in Reno, Nev., will pay $167,000 to resolve a lawsuit alleging discrimination against persons with disabilities who use assistance animals.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Donald Ray Ondrak, 61, of Lexington, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, to 1 year and 1 day in prison by United States District Judge Laurie Smith-Camp, for aiding in the preparation of a false tax return. After prison, Ondrak will be required to serve 1 year of supervised release, and pay a fine in the amount of $5,000. Ondrak previously surrendered his CPA license.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Frederick Gonzales, 43, and his wife Carey Gonzales, 37, both of Albuquerque, N.M., were sentenced this morning for their convictions on federal child pornography charges. Frederick Gonzales was sentenced to 97 months in federal prison followed by 15 years of supervised release. Carey Gonzales...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Chief United States District Court Judge Laurie Smith Camp sentenced Newton Dale, age 27, of Walthill, Nebraska, for his conviction of statutory rape in Indian Country. Dale was sentenced to 41 months of imprisonment to be followed by five years of supervised release. His sentence was ordered to run consecutively to the sentence Dale is currently serving in Iowa for a controlled substance violation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: Former Cuyahoga County employee and Maple Heights school board member Santina “Sandy" Klimkowski was sentenced to four years in prison today for her role in the Cuyahoga County corruption scandal, federal law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: SIDNEY, Ohio - Formed Fiber Technologies Inc., a Sidney automotive fabric manufacturing plant, has been cited for 11 violations carrying proposed fines of $115,000 after a complaint was filed and an investigation conducted by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The company has been placed in OSHA's Severe Violator Enforcement Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: SEATTLE - A Puyallup, Washington man who shot and killed two men who had entered the garage where he was growing marijuana pleaded guilty on Oct. 25, 2013, in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to manufacturing marijuana and possession of a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime. Jeremy Peter Capodanno, 36, was charged by a federal indictment and was arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration on April 17, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former crew leader has been sentenced to time served after pleading guilty to harboring undocumented workers who were employees of a framing company in Spring Hill, Kan., U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today. He will be turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Former U.S. Congressman Rick Renzi was sentenced today to serve 36 months in prison following his June conviction by a federal jury in Tucson, Ariz., for extortion, bribery, insurance fraud, money laundering and racketeering. Renzi’s co-defendant, James Sandlin, was also sentenced today to serve 18 months in prison for his role in the extortion, bribery and money laundering scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - Law enforcement officials have arrested a total of nine individuals alleging they violated the laws of the United States by moving money undetected through the United States banking system from Florida to Texas into Mexico, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Janice Ayala, special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), San Antonio.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 28, 2013
News Release: ARCHBOLD, Ohio - Napoleon Spring Works Inc., a manufacturer of garage door hardware, has been cited $147,600 in proposed penalties by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for 16 safety violations, including exposing workers to amputation hazards at its Archbold plant.
