News from December 2014
By Commerce News Now | Dec 9, 2014
The US Commerce Department published a one page proposed rule on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Dec 9, 2014
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Dec 9, 2014
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: 2012 Commodity Flow Survey Final Estimates
By DOT News Wire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Final Rule Marks Obama Administration’s Largest Paperwork Reduction
By DOT News Wire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the availability of $5 million in competitive grant funds to enhance public transit service for American Indians, Alaska natives and other residents on rural tribal lands. Funding is provided through FTA’s Public Transportation on Indian Reservations Tribal Transit Program. A Notice of Funding Availability appears in today’s Federal Register .
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Defendant Fraudulently Concealed Approximately $67 Million in Loan Losses.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - Following General Sherman's decisive march to the coast, the prison population at Andersonville increased from a few hundred United States prisoners to over 5,000 men. Many of these prisoners had been held in numerous prisons across the South, and each man hoped never to see...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Wallace D. Peace, 39, of Buffalo, N.Y., who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than 280 grams of crack cocaine, was sentenced to 262 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: 2014 enacted level: $4.26 billion. 2015 budget request: $4.47 billion. 2015 Omnibus: $4.30 billion. Highlights and key points: * $1.181 billion for the House of Representatives, which is equal to the 2014 enacted level and $19.8 million less than the request. * $10.1 million for the Joint Committee...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia - On the evening of Saturday, Jan. 24, 1015, the popular "Night Museum" program will return to Andersonville National Historic Site for the first time in the new year. From 6:00 - 8:30 p.m., the National Prisoner of War Museum will be open for a rare night-time opportunity to view the museum exhibits and experience the prison site by lantern light.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Cash and vehicles forfeited totaled $961,413.93.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Javier Orozco, 30, of Anthony, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 84 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Orozco was sentenced based on a guilty plea entered on Feb. 11, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Joseph Edward Lucero, 25, of Laguna Pueblo, was sentenced this morning to 74 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for his assault conviction arising out of the drive-by shooting of an Acoma Pueblo home.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings, D-Md., called on the House to pass and send the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Improvement Act to the President for his signature following its unanimous passage in the Senate last night.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - J’Sean Claude Butierries, 51, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, on wire fraud and money laundering charges. Butierries pleaded guilty in September to defrauding investors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling fraudulent investments and then using that money to buy expensive cars and other luxury items for himself and family members.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JOSE HERNANDEZ-HERNANDEZ, age 35, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced after having pled guilty to a one-count indictment for illegal reentry of a previously removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Dickerson and Co-Defendant Perpetuated in Scheme to Rob Employees.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: I’d like to start today by congratulating my friend Orrin Hatch on his upcoming chairmanship of the Finance Committee. A few weeks from now, this room will look a little different, but it will remain the go-to place for developing policies that can improve people’s lives in Oregon and Utah and across the country. And before we get to the subject at hand, I’ll add that this committee has a long tradition of bipartisanship that I look forward to continuing.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 9, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Chairmen: As the Ranking Members of the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, the Judiciary, and Homeland Security, we are writing to request that our committees of jurisdiction hold a series of in-depth hearings to examine the Federal response to the multiple, complex issues raised...
