News from September 2013
By EPA Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), will hold a hearing Wednesday, Sept. 18, on “The Obama Administration’s Climate Change Policies and Activities." On August 6, 2013, Chairman Whitfield sent requests to 13 federal agencies...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) issued the following joint statement after the Department of Labor finalized changes to the companion care exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: Grants awarded to hire law enforcement positions.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A 50-year-old Putnam County man was sentenced today to 18 years in prison for selling powerful prescription painkillers, announced U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin. Terry Lee Hagan, of Culloden, W.Va., previously pleaded guilty in August to distribution of oxycodone. Hagan’s sentence was handed down today by Chief United States District Judge Robert Chambers in federal court in Huntington.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) today announced more than $7 million in grants to support the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). The funding will enable five U.S. organizations to develop pilot identity protection and verification systems that offer consumers more privacy, security and convenience online. These new pilots build on the successful launch of five NSTIC pilots awarded in 2012.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday sentenced Mark W. Jackson (62), a former resident of Pinellas County and a former Florida attorney, to eleven years and three months in federal prison for bank and mail fraud conspiracy. The court also ordered Jackson to serve five years of supervised release, to pay restitution of $166,795.89, to pay a forfeiture money judgment of $200,000, and to pay a special assessment of $100.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), will hold a hearing Wednesday, Sept. 18, on “The Obama Administration’s Climate Change Policies and Activities." On August 6, 2013, Chairman Whitfield sent requests to 13 federal agencies...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office announced that during a federal court session in Helena, on Sept. 16, 2013, before U.S. District Judge Sam E. Haddon, JENNIFER MICHAEL SWANSON, a 41-year-old resident of Billings, was sentenced to a term of.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: PHOENIX - On Sept. 16, 2013, Charles Leo Thomas, 39, of Laveen, Ariz., an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow to 18 years in federal prison, followed by a term of five years of supervised release. Thomas pleaded guilty to second degree murder on June 27, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: A Youngstown man was indicted today on charges of possession with intent to distribute heroin, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today addressed the American Enterprise Institute’s new Center for Internet, Communications, and Technology Policy during an event entitled, “Broadband, economic growth, and the implications...
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), today lead seven Senators in sending a letter to Gina McCarthy, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding the EPA's involvement in the development and ultimate use of the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) estimates in current and upcoming energy-related rules.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: Project Ceasefire. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man stopped his trial and pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing a firearm. Dennis T. Hart, 55, of Kansas City, pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Utah. Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013. Received Around $49 million from Investors; Paid About $37 million in Ponzi Payments. SALT LAKE CITY - Kenneth Case Tebbs, age 42, of South Jordan, will spend 78 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Georgia man living in Long Island, N.Y., was charged today with traveling from New York to New Jersey for the purpose of having sexual contact with a minor and with distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Erasmo Garza, 29, of Edinburg, has been sentenced to prison for carjacking, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: MDENT agents found prescription pain pills, firearms and cash at ‘stash houses’ during investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney Williams J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Talbert Milton Mount, 52, of Dunkirk, N.Y., pleaded guilty to distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara in Buffalo. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 120 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: BOSTON - A York, Pa. man was sentenced late Friday for production of child pornography and traveling to engage in sex acts with a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2013
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Williamsport returned an indictment on September 11 charging an inmate from the United States Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
