News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced KYLE MARTIN INCH, 28, of Cary, North Carolina to 300 months imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States Postal Service today announced a rate hike totaling 5.9% on monopoly products, like postage stamps. Some products will see a much higher rate increase. The rate increase, subject to Postal Regulatory Commission, would take effect January 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 49-year-old Dingmans Ferry resident pleaded guilty Tuesday to receiving and distributing child pornography before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - William A. Sipper, 46, of Ramsey, N.J., pled guilty today to sexually assaulting an intoxicated business colleague while in the District of Columbia on a business trip, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Celia Raquel Zuniga, 45, of Rio Grande City, has been convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and possession with intent to distribute marijuana, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. The McAllen federal jury convicted Zuniga following a two-day trial and approximately two hours of deliberations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - The Counter-Proliferation Working Group (CPWG), chaired by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, today hosted more than 250 individuals at the fifth annual conference on U.S. export controls and espionage at Boston University. Representatives from U.S. corporations, including defense contractors, and academic institutions were in attendance.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today unveiled a draft of bipartisan legislation to reform the approval process for energy infrastructure projects that cross the borders of the United States. The North American Energy Infrastructure Act, co-sponsored by Energy and Commerce...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: On Wednesday and Thursday, September 25 and 26, essential heavy equipment for infrastructure repairs due to recent flooding will traverse Trail Ridge Road through Rocky Mountain National Park from Grand Lake to Estes Park. The equipment, including a large rock crusher, will be used to make road base around the Town of Estes Park. The caravan consists of five trucks and heavy equipment with a combined length of 880 feet.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) will host a press conference tomorrow to discuss EPA’s recently proposed greenhouse gas standards for new power plants and the impact they will have on electricity consumers and the economy. Whitfield will be joined by a group of House and Senate members also concerned with the effect EPA’s regulations will have on the economy and job creation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Sept. 25, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn S. Ostby, the following individuals were arraigned.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Power Subcommittee Chairman Ed Whitfield (R-KY) will host a press conference tomorrow to discuss EPA’s recently proposed greenhouse gas standards for new power plants and the impact they will have on electricity consumers and the economy. Whitfield will be joined by a group of House and Senate members also concerned with the effect EPA’s regulations will have on the economy and job creation.
By State Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Washington D.C. - Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the senior Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today introduced the PEPFAR Stewardship and Oversight Act. This legislation aims to extend critical PEPFAR and Global Fund authorities and strengthen oversight to ensure that access to essential prevention...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Lee Baca, 22, a former U.S. Marine Reservist who resides in Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to a receipt of child pornography charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) today released the following statement in response to a new report from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) showing that Iowa’s soon-to-open health insurance marketplace, created as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), will offer Iowans health insurance choice and affordability.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - JAMES L. MILLINER, Wright City, Missouri, was convicted late Tuesday of conspiracy to distribute over 280 grams of crack cocaine. The two-day trial was held before United States District Judge Rodney Sippel.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child and Sexual Contact with a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Somerset County, N.J.-based financial advisor was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for stealing $138,000 from two elderly investors and funding his lavish lifestyle with money he claimed to be investing in conservative securities and his business, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders from the Senate and House committees overseeing health policy today announced that they have reached an agreement on legislation to help ensure the safety of compounded drugs and our nation’s pharmaceutical supply chain. This legislation, the Drug Quality and Security Act, reflects...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Memphis, TN - The final member of a criminal gang responsible for at least three bank robberies and two business robberies was sentenced on Monday to 300 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-A bipartisan group of Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee senators-Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA), Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Senator Al Franken (D-MN), Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Senator Richard Burr (R-NC)-today...
