News from April 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today led the committee’s unanimous approval to fill Member vacancies on the six Finance Committee subcommittees, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Congressional Oversight Group, and the Congressional Trade Advisors on Trade Policy and Negotiations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Monday, April 7, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Ted Doherty, regional Special Agent in Charge for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Tristram J. Coffin, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Chelle Soutiere, 38, was sentenced on April 3, 2014 by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss, to 35 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin in Vermont. Additionally, Soutiere was sentenced to three years of supervised release to be served at the conclusion of her prison term.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The protest period for the Bureau of Land Management’s Proposed Colorado River Valley Field Office Resource Management Plan now ends May 5, about a week later than what was originally announced.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: On Wednesday, April 9 at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will mark up the Workforce Democracy and Fairness Act (H.R. 4320) and the Employee Privacy Protection Act (H.R. 4321). The markup will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the Senate passed the bipartisan Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) Extension Act of 2014, which will restore unemployment insurance for millions of long-term unemployed Americans retroactively from January through May 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) went to the Floor of the House this afternoon to highlight that unemployed workers have been waiting 100 days for Congress to act to re-start the federal emergency unemployment insurance (UI) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By State Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Ranking Member on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, released the following statement regarding recent developments in eastern Ukraine.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - Only the last few weekends of April are left in the season to take advantage of the popular Homestead National Parks Trolley. The trolley provides free transportation each weekend, until the end of April, from historic downtown Homestead to Biscayne and Everglades National Parks...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Lamarjorie Pharr, 33, formerly of Clinton Township, Michigan, pleaded guilty to one count of filing false claims against the United States, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Brian Newton (56, Port Orange) and Victoria Snow (54, Clearwater) with conspiracy, mail fraud and wire fraud. Newton and Snow were arrested today and will make their initial appearances in federal court, in Orlando, this afternoon. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement regarding the administration’s final payment rates for 2015 Medicare Advantage plans. The administration announced in February that it would impose additional cuts to Medicare Advantage...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Reauthorizes the CFTC; ensures robust markets, customer protections, and a balanced approach to regulations impacting job creators.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: ORLANDO, Fla. - Mark R. Trouville, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field (MFD), and A. Lee Bentley, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, announced today that Luis Alberto Marulanda-(54, Colombia) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering. Marulanda faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By State Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding the Twentieth Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide:
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Erie, Pa. - A former resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 32 years in prison and lifetime supervised release on his conviction of violating federal laws related to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement regarding the administration’s final payment rates for 2015 Medicare Advantage plans. The administration announced in February that it would impose additional cuts to Medicare Advantage...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Cali.), Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform (OGR), today sent two letters regarding Robert Brenner's role in facilitating the fraud and theft of convicted felon and former senior official of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) John Beale.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Two area businessmen admitted to committing bank fraud against Excel Bank, which failed in 2012, after receiving $4,000,000 in capital from the Treasury Department through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP).
