News from September 2013
By State Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the statement below following President Obama’s speech tonight on Syria.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park encourages the public to mālama 'āina on Sat., Sept. 28 - National Public Lands Day - by volunteering to remove invasive Himalayan ginger in the park, or fountain grass in Ocean View. Park entrance fees are waived for National Public Lands Day, and the annual event is the largest single-day volunteer effort for public lands in the United States.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: Dear Secretary Lew: Numerous public reports indicate that the Administration is actively seeking a way to accommodate its union supporters by extending health insurance exchange premium and cost-sharing subsidies provided under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) only to unionized...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., demanded that the State Department comply with the Committee’s request to interview survivors of the September 11-12, 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi and indicated that the Committee may be forced to use the compulsory process if cooperation is not forthcoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: ROCKFORD - A former Machesney Park, Ill. man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Rockford on charges of bankruptcy fraud. ROBERT J. YONKEE, JR., 54, now of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, filed a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Petition on Sept. 15, 2008. The indictment alleges that Yonkee fraudulently concealed...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma -- Brandi A. Kammerer, N.P., who practices in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, has agreed to pay $50,000 to the United States to settle civil penalty claims stemming from allegations that she violated the Controlled Substances Act, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: DENVER - Former Paddington Station preschool teacher David Moe, age 46, of Denver, was sentenced today by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to serve 96 months in federal prison for distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney John Walsh and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: DALLAS - Meliton Torres, 31, of Lancaster, Texas, pleaded guilty this morning, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney, to one count of transporting and shipping child pornography. He faces a maximum statutory sentence of not less than five or more than 20 years in federal prison, a $250,000 fine...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on Sept. 10, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, MICHAEL ANTHONY ERVIN, a 48-year-old resident of Billings, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorneys Thomas G. Walker, Ripley Rand, and Anne M. Tompkins announced that their three Offices are co-sponsoring a Human Trafficking Symposium September 12-13, 2013 at the Double Tree by Hilton Brownstone in Raleigh. Preventing and prosecuting Human Trafficking cases is a priority...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that SAMIR ZAKY, 38, of Brookfield, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to 41 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for defrauding Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: - Stole more than $1.5 million in cigarettes from Leitchfield, Kentucky warehouse.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: National Park Advisory Commission Meeting to be Held September 19.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that the last two defendants have been sentenced in federal court for their role in a nearly $900,000 bid-rigging scheme that involved several contractors.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: Lakewood, Colorado -- The Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Director, Helen Hankins, will retire Sept. 30, the agency announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), today held a hearing to examine opportunities to improve education research and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: The leaders of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment will roll out the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013 (WRRDA) during a Wednesday press conference in the U.S. Capitol.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: INDIANA DUNES NATIONAL LAKESHORE: Bring the family to Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore’s Nature Play Zone for a nature fort building challenge on Saturday, September 14. Using natural and other materials found in the Nature Play Zone, see if you can build the sturdiest, longest, or best-looking fort.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
Release: Washington - Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 121,000 metric tons of soybeans to unknown destinations during the 2013/2014 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 10, 2013
News Release: Philip Epps, 26, of Philadelphia, Pa., was charged today by Indictment with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
