News from April 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Newly delivered internal IRS e-mails sent and received by former IRS Exempt Organizations Director Lois Lerner and other IRS employees show that House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Minority staff, working for Ranking Member Elijah Cummings, began contacting the IRS in August...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Failure to Register as a Sex Offender was sentenced on March 31, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that CLENTON KENDALL MCCOY, age 51, of Vian, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 46 months of imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for being a Felon in Possession of a Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Cole, Ranking Member Wasserman Schultz, and Chairman Rogers for your work on this bill. Today we consider the smallest of the appropriations bills, which funds the operations of our nation’s legislative branch.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - In recognition of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (April 6-12, 2014), the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama is honoring four organizations for their support and service to communities affected by crime, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Beaver Falls resident has been sentenced in federal court to 124 months imprisonment, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release on his conviction of possession and distribution of child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Tevon Harris aka “Da Kidd" and “King Kidd," 22, of Houston, has entered a plea of guilty on two charges of trafficking children under 18 for commercial sex, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A chiropractor with a practice in Toms River, N.J., admitted today to accepting bribes to refer a number of his patients to a New Jersey-licensed pain management physician, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: I would like to focus our discussion today on the opportunities and the challenges in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, and on how more intensive congressional involvement at this stage of the negotiations is essential.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A recent memo prepared by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) in mid March raises questions about the legality of the administration’s Feb. 27, 2014, decision to allow states to offer subsidies to individuals enrolling in health care coverage outside of the exchanges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Concealing Person from Arrest and False Statement.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power today approved H.R. 6, the Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act, by a vote of 15 to 11. Authored by Rep. Cory Gardner (R-CO), the legislation would cut through the red tape blocking exports of U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG). H.R. 6 grants...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced ROBERT LOWELL CASSIDY, 58, of Morrisville to 84 months imprisonment, followed by 7 years of supervised release and was ordered to pay a $10,000.00 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Joel.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: “Thank you Chairman Lucas. Thank you for your hard work, along with Subcommittee Chairman Conaway and Ranking Member Scott, on the bill before us today. The Agriculture Committee is demonstrating that it is possible to put partisan rhetoric aside in favor of bipartisan legislation. We’re the only Committee that seems able to do that.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. A Manhattan, Kan., physician was sentenced Wednesday to five years in federal prison for unlawfully prescribing prescription drugs, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: TEMPORARY CLOSURES AT LAKE MEAD APRIL 9-10.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: Today, all eight Republican Senators on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee sent a letter to President Barack Obama regarding the proposed "Waters of the United States" (WOTUS) rule, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) released in late March.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A recent memo prepared by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) in mid March raises questions about the legality of the administration’s Feb. 27, 2014, decision to allow states to offer subsidies to individuals enrolling in health care coverage outside of the exchanges.
