News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y.) - James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James T. Hayes, Jr., the Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Fayette County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ - The National Park Service (NPS) is pleased to announce the latest step to manage the impacts of bison on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park (GCNP). After meeting with cooperators Arizona Game and Fish Department (AGFD), U.S. Forest Service (USFS) and the Bureau of Land Management...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Serious questions remain regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed changes to generic drug labeling. Health Subcommittee members yesterday discussed the FDA’s proposed rule, following up on concerns outlined in a letter to FDA led by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - On Tuesday, April 1, 2014, Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Gerald Wayne Hairston to serve 120 months in prison for a federal firearms violation, announced Anne M. Tompkins, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Hairston, 30, of Charlotte, was also sentenced to five years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement on today’s Supreme Court’s ruling on McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: MEDFORD, OR - Kenneth Johnson, 62, and Diana Arredondo, 56, both of Central Point, Oregon, were sentenced to federal prison based on an embezzlement and tax fraud scheme relating to the operation of a local hotel. Johnson was a partner in the Super 8 Hotel in Central Point, Oregon since it opened in...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: For National Junior Ranger Day on April 26 the National Park Service is inviting younger visitors to Gettysburg National Military Park and Eisenhower National Historic Site for special activities.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Serious questions remain regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed changes to generic drug labeling. Health Subcommittee members yesterday discussed the FDA’s proposed rule, following up on concerns outlined in a letter to FDA led by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: If conditions allow, Rocky Mountain National Park staff are planning to burn piles located in the Lily Lake area along Highway 7. These piles were generated in a hazardous fuels reduction project designed to generate a potential barrier in case of wildfire.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Three people who were recently named in a superseding indictment that adds health care fraud charges to money laundering and tax fraud schemes were arrested this morning by federal authorities.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Serious questions remain regarding the Food and Drug Administration’s proposed changes to generic drug labeling. Health Subcommittee members yesterday discussed the FDA’s proposed rule, following up on concerns outlined in a letter to FDA led by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Matthew Brown, 34, of Scotland, Pennsylvania was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Harrisburg charging him with one count of Delivery of a Schedule II Controlled Substance, crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: ROCKFORD, Ill. - -Jack Riley, Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration announced the results of a cooperative investigation with the McHenry County Sheriff’s Police Narcotic’s Task Force, stemming from suspicious activity occurring in the 800 block of Harper Court, Cary, Illinois.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing on “Ensuring the Security, Stability, Resilience, and Freedom of the Global Internet." Members sought answers regarding the Obama administration’s proposal instructing the International...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal indictment returned under seal in June 2013 and unsealed today charges six foreign nationals, including a Ukrainian businessman and a government official in India, with participating in an alleged international racketeering conspiracy involving bribes of state and central government...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Energy and Power and Environment and the Economy today held a joint hearing to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget request. Members questioned EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on EPA’s budget request and a...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittees on Energy and Power and Environment and the Economy today held a joint hearing to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s Fiscal Year 2015 budget request. Members questioned EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on EPA’s budget request and a...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) delivered the following statement on the House floor today in opposition to H.R. 2575, the Save American Workers Act of 2104 - the House GOP’s 52nd attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: Scott County bank allegedly robbed by Pikeville, Kentucky man.
