News from September 2013
By EPA Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement regarding the music partnership announced by Clear Channel and Warner Music Group...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. COLUMBUS, OHIO - Kenneth J. Horsley, 54, of Columbus pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to robbing seven Columbus-area banks and one bank in Beavercreek, Ohio between June 2012 and March 2013. Investigators dubbed Horsley the “Bad Beard Bandit" because...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement regarding the music partnership announced by Clear Channel and Warner Music Group...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Chance W. Young, 29, of Fairfield, Illinois, has been charged in United States District Court in Benton with possessing stolen firearms knowing or having reasonable cause to believe they were stolen, announced Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois. The indictment...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today voiced their strong support for H.R. 2775, the No Subsidies Without Verification Act. On Friday, July 5th, as Americans were still celebrating the nation’s independence, the administration quietly released 600 pages of health law regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Defendant Sandy Jenkins, Who Allegedly Embezzled More Than $16 Million From the.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 12, 2013 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is making payments to support the production of advanced biofuel. USDA is making nearly $15.5 million in payments to 188 producers through the Advanced Biofuel Payment Program.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Vice Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) praised today’s introduction of bipartisan legislation by committee members Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-VA), Rep. Gene Green (D-TX), and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) to reform the regulation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2013
News Release: Defendant Tried To Pay Undercover Federal Agents To Kill Seven People.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., is seeking information on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s apparent failure to utilize information submitted to it by all public companies that could save the regulator significant time and money.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Kickbacks, Bribery and Extortion Alleged. NEWARK, N.J. - A federal grand jury indicted Joseph A. Ferriero, the former chairman of the Bergen County Democratic Organization (BCDO), today, charging him with a racketeering scheme involving kickbacks paid to a public official, soliciting and accepting bribes...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Jackson Hole Airport Fire Department, Grand Teton National Park rangers and EMTs, Jackson Hole Fire/EMS, and Teton County sheriffs responded to a report of a small aircraft crash near North Spring Gulch Road in Grand Teton National Park at 12:10 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that George Adatsi, age 49, of Lansing, Michigan, was sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment after pleading guilty to a felony tax offense of obstructing the IRS. U.S. Attorney Miles was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Erick Martinez, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Criminal Investigation Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, 26-year-old Jose Abram Lopez-Lozano, a resident of Michoacàn, Mexico, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison in connection with an undocumented alien smuggling incident which resulted in three deaths announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - This afternoon U.S. District Judge William P. Johnson sentenced Joseph C. Kupfer, 50, of Rio Rancho, N.M., to ten years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his convictions for conspiracy, theft of government property and tax evasion. Kupfer also was ordered...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a partnership agreement to expand wood energy use, which will help improve the safety and health of our nation's forests. The new partnership includes USDA, the Alliance for Green Heat, the Biomass Power Association, the Biomass Thermal Energy Council, and the Pellet Fuels Institute.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Naman Bader, aka “John C. Koshy," 34, of Philadelphia, was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for smuggling and illegally distributing more than two million prescription pills, such as Xanax, Valium, Phentermine, Ativan, Klonopin, Ambien, and their generic equivalents, valued at approximately...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 NEW YORK— Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Rand Beers today traveled to New York City to participate in the 9/11 Memorial Ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. While in New York, Acting Secretary Beers also met with important partners including state and local officials, first responders, and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) employees in the area.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: Partnership agreement part of the Obama administration's 'All of the Above' energy strategy WASHINGTON, Sept. 11, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a partnership agreement to expand wood energy use, which will help improve the safety and health of our nation's forests. The new partnership includes USDA, the Alliance for Green Heat, the Biomass Power Association, the Biomass Thermal Energy Council, and the Pellet Fuels Institute.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 11, 2013
News Release: A federal grand jury in Covington, Ky., has returned an indictment against G.S. Electech Inc. executive, Shingo Okuda for his role in an international conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids of auto parts used on antilock brake systems installed in U.S. cars, the Department of Justice announced today. Today’s charge is the first to be filed in Kentucky in the department’s ongoing investigation into anticompetitive conduct in the automotive parts industry.
