News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 5th annual Massachusetts Counter-Proliferation Working Group Conference. Thank you for taking the time to be here with us today.
By Commerce 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 Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-MT) issued the following statement praising a joint call by the RATE Coalition and the Coalition for Fair Effective Tax Rates to advance and pass comprehensive tax reform that makes today’s broken tax code simpler and fairer for all job creators.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: St. Louis, MO - THERESA MOORE admitted that she employed various aliases and claimed to be with law enforcement and the legal profession to induce victims to pay her money by convincing them that she could assist them with various legal matters. Moore contacted her victims by telephone and made false representations about non-existent legal matters.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Ross Township resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of government money, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement after the House passed a Continuing Resolution to fund the government through Dec. 15, 2013 that defunds ObamaCare. Since 2011, Camp and House Republicans have repealed key provisions of the health care law and secured $55 billion in cuts to ObamaCare, which President Obama has signed into law.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a statement in response to the United States Postal Service’s Board of Governors announcement of its approved rate increase for market-dominant mail products slated to begin...
By EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced the hiring of a federal prosecutor assigned to the Sherman office of the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Lawrence Gary, age 36, of Rosebud, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. District Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on Sept. 19, 2013, and pled guilty to a Superseding Information that charged him with Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Michael James Farmer, age 26, of Fort Thompson, South Dakota, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark A. Moreno on Sept. 23, 2013, and pled guilty to the Information that charged him with Simple Assault-Domestic Violence, and Assault by Striking, Beating, and Wounding-Domestic Violence.
By DOE 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: Orlando, Florida, - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Jason G. Aman (30, Merritt Island) to 10 years in federal prison for online enticement of a minor to travel to engage in sexual activity. The court also ordered Aman to serve a 5-year term of supervised release and to register as a sex offender, upon his release from prison. Aman pleaded guilty on June 3, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Lakeland, Florida, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Pay Child Support.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: BISMARCK - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on Sept. 25, 2013, Jason A. Azure, 31, Belcourt, N.D., was found guilty by a federal jury in U.S. District Court on a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Joshua Lamar Greeson has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for obstructing a public corruption investigation.
By Commerce 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 Commerce 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 US DOT Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: Washington, DC -Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) joined co-chairs Senators Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Ron Wyden (D-OR) as the leader of the U.S. Senate Climate Change Clearinghouse, which is a regular forum where members of the Senate meet to discuss the latest climate change science, recent innovations ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 25, 2013
News Release: CHICAGO - WILLIAM BEAVERS, a former Cook County Commissioner and, before that, a longtime Chicago alderman and police officer, was sentenced today to six months in prison for obstructing the Internal Revenue Service and failing to report, and pay taxes on, all of his income. Beavers was convicted after...
