News from September 2013
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Sept. 18, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, DAWN MARIE MENJIVAR, a 37-year-old resident of Riverton, Wyoming, was sentenced to a term of.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement after the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved H.R. 3080, the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: ABINGDON, VIRGINIA - Brenda Gale Vance and Billy Leonard Vance of Rosedale, Virginia, pled guilty yesterday in United States District Court to conspiring to defraud the United States. The Vances admitted to conspiring to defraud the United States by concealing the fact that Billy Vance was working and earning income while receiving Social Security disability benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 54-year-old West Lawn, Pennsylvania resident was sentenced to one year in prison today by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Edwin M. Kosik for his role in an Oxycontin trafficking conspiracy that operated in Schuylkill and Berks County in 2011.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today marked the five-year anniversary of the initial filing of the Keystone XL pipeline application with a hearing on “Keystone’s Red Tape Anniversary: Five Years of Bureaucratic Delay and Economic...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Money Laundering, Structuring, Food Stamp And.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Floyd Lee Corkins, II, 29, was sentenced today to 25 years in prison on three felony charges, including a terrorism offense, in the August 2012 shooting of a security guard at the Family Research Council in downtown Washington, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Cathy L. Lanier, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: On Sept. 19, 2008, five years ago, when TransCanada first submitted its application to the U.S. State Department to build the Keystone XL pipeline, a $7 billion private infrastructure project that would create thousands of jobs and advance America’s energy security...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Billings, on Sept. 18, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy, GREGORY JOHN HARRIS, a 57-year-old resident of Humboldt County, California, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Less than two weeks before the health law’s open enrollment is scheduled to begin, Director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight Gary Cohen today testified before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. Members asked Cohen about the administration’s preparedness for the October 1 launch and the functionality of the health care law’s Navigator program.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 19, 2013 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power held an oversight hearing on “Keeping Hydropower Affordable and Reliable: The Protection of Existing Hydropower Investments and the Promotion of New Development." This hearing highlighted how existing federal and non-federal hydropower resources are compromised by litigation and regulation, while new hydropower projects face uncertainty and federal inaction.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Washington, D.C.-Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a new report prepared by Democratic staff on the status of the Committee’s investigation of the attacks in Benghazi. Based on a review of tens of thousands of pages of classified...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: On Sept. 19, 2008, five years ago, when TransCanada first submitted its application to the U.S. State Department to build the Keystone XL pipeline, a $7 billion private infrastructure project that would create thousands of jobs and advance America’s energy security...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges today sentenced Christian Labrent Moore (31, Ocala) to 17 years and 6 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm and ammunition affecting commerce by a convicted felon. Moore pleaded guilty on June 18, 2013.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Key Points: * Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor is forcing a vote in the House on a bill that would cut food assistance by a whopping $40 billion, and kick nearly 4 million people off the program in the next year, including children, seniors, veterans and disabled Americans. 210,000 children would ...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Less than two weeks before the health law’s open enrollment is scheduled to begin, Director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight Gary Cohen today testified before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee. Members asked Cohen about the administration’s preparedness for the October 1 launch and the functionality of the health care law’s Navigator program.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today marked the five-year anniversary of the initial filing of the Keystone XL pipeline application with a hearing on “Keystone’s Red Tape Anniversary: Five Years of Bureaucratic Delay and Economic...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - The U.S. Department of Justice has awarded public safety grants totaling almost $1 million to two Kansas Indian tribes, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Cornell “Man" Shumate, 30, of Washington, D.C., has been found guilty by a jury of charges stemming from the kidnapping and sexual assault of a woman in March of 2012, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 19, 2013
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Vilsack today announced loans to help finance the construction of broadband networks in rural Iowa, Minnesota, Oregon and South Dakota. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) remains focused on carrying out its mission, despite a time of significant budget uncertainty. Today's announcement is one part of the Department's efforts to strengthen the rural economy.
