News from April 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: Numbers to Know. * Up to 129 million Americans with pre-existing health conditions, including up to 17 million children, no longer have to worry about being denied coverage or charged higher premiums due to their health status. * 108 million Americans - including 71 million Americans in private plans...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard yesterday sentenced Eddie Battles (26, Valdosta, Georgia) to 16 years and 2 months in federal prison for eleven counts of armed robbery and two counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. Battles pleaded guilty on June 20, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: (ANN ARBOR) - Today, in a 5-4 ruling, the United States Supreme Court ruled in McCutcheon v. FEC that the aggregate limits imposed on campaign contributions through the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 are invalid under the First Amendment. Since significant First Amendment interests were at stake ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced former Prince George’s County police officer Sinisa Simic, age 30, of Woodbridge, Virginia, today to 10 years in prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for: an extortion conspiracy under color of official right arising...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: MEEKER, Colo. - Fire management officials with the Bureau of Land Management are now seeking public feedback on a proposed fuel reduction project in Rio Blanco and Garfield counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: Photocopied bills circulated in Louisville, Jeffersonville and New Albany areas.
By EPA 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 State Newswire | Apr 2, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the Senate confirmed Tom Malinowski for Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor:
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding the White House announcement that more than seven million Americans have signed up for private health coverage under the Affordable Care Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - A 13-count federal indictment has been returned against Tanzanian national Amon Rweyemamu Mtaza and Dion Hatch, of Houston, alleging a stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) scheme, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that JONATHAN DELAURA, 39, was sentenced to 35 years in prison by United States District Judge Kenneth M. Karas for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet, possessing child pornography, and sending obscene material to a 15-year-old boy.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: 25 Lease Suspensions Extended in Thompson Divide.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Deundra Milhouse, an Alabama resident, pleaded guilty today to several charges involving stolen identity refund fraud (SIRF) and firearms offenses, announced Assistant Attorney General Kathryn Keneally of the Justice Department's Tax Division and U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. for the Middle District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: A Detroit-area physician pleaded guilty today for her role in a $7 million health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement today after the confirmation of John P. Carlin to serve as Assistant Attorney General for National Security: “John Carlin is an outstanding leader and an exceptional public servant who has spent his entire legal career at the Department of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Today, a federal jury in the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota sitting in Bismarck, N.D., convicted Lindrith Tsoodle, 58, of one felony count and one misdemeanor count of using excessive force on persons in his custody in November and December of 2010. Tsoodle was also convicted of making false statements to a federal law enforcement officer, and was acquitted of tampering with a witness.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: Freedom Bancorporation, Inc., Lindstrom, Minnesota Written Agreement dated April 22, 2013 Terminated March 27, 2014 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced its approval of the application filed by Umpqua Holdings Corporation, Portland, Oregon, to acquire Sterling Financial Corporation and thereby indirectly acquire Sterling Savings Bank, both of Spokane, Washington.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced its approval of the notice under section 4 of the Bank Holding Company Act by PacWest Bancorp, Los Angeles, California, CapGen Capital Group II LP and CapGen Capital Group II LLC, both of New York, New York, to acquire CapitalSource Inc. and thereby indirectly acquire CapitalSource Bank, both of Los Angeles.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker issued the following statement on the confirmation of Kelly R. Welsh as the U.S. Department of Commerce’s General Counsel.
