News from February 2014
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Building on President Obama’s State of the Union address and the Administration’s Climate Action Plan, the Energy Department today announced new efficiency standards for commercial refrigeration equipment. Over the next 30 years, these standards will help cut carbon pollution by about 142 million metric tons - equivalent to the annual electricity use of 14.3 million U.S. homes - and save businesses up to $11.7 billion on their energy bills.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today continued its review of the Federal Trade Commission as it celebrates its 100th anniversary. The subcommittee heard from academic experts about their perspective on the FTC’s mission and authority...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today welcomed the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to scrap the commission’s Critical Information Needs (CIN) study. Every Republican...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: OAKLAND - Robert Thomas Doyle made his initial appearance today in federal court on charges of mail fraud, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and IRS-CI Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Patrick Lanier, 65, of Austin, has been convicted on 16 counts to include one count of harboring and concealing Harris “Butch" Ballow from arrest, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Lanier was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud arising from a stock sale scheme, 13...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has determined that resuming transient testing of nuclear fuels and materials at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) will not have a significant impact on the environment and is an important tool for advancing safe, economical, low carbon nuclear energy.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today expressed disbelief regarding the administration’s most recent change to the health care law: providing subsidies for “retroactive" enrollment. The administration announced that all states could pay subsidies to enrollees purchasing health care both on and off the exchanges.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Women's Rights National Historical Park continues its annual Winter Film Festival by showing the documentary film Top Secret Rosies Friday, March 14, and Saturday, March 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.-- A federal grand jury in Knoxville returned a 26-count indictment on Feb. 19, 2014, against Linda F. Pesterfield, 40, of Sweetwater, Tenn.; John G. Roberts, 38, of Sweetwater, Tenn.; Jeremy T. Palmer, 36, of Loudon, Tenn.; Adam W. Norman, 33, of Lenoir City, Tenn.; Randy P. Brewster...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: COVINGTON, KY - The former executive director of a federally funded northern Kentucky drug task force has admitted he stole money that belonged to the task force.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) today expressed disbelief regarding the administration’s most recent change to the health care law: providing subsidies for “retroactive" enrollment. The administration announced that all states could pay subsidies to enrollees purchasing health care both on and off the exchanges.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: A felon who attempted to steal a disabled motorcycle from the shoulder of Interstate 5 was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to ten years in prison and three years of supervised release for possession of stolen firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. The investigation revealed ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: A new photography exhibition, Mojave Moonlight, opens at theDesert Light Gallery in the Kelso Depot Visitor on March 7th andcloses on June 14th.Photographer Tom Lowe presents eighteenlarge-scale images that explore the Mojave landscape with compositions specificto the moon-lit sky.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A former Merrill Lynch and Smith Barney investment adviser was indicted yesterday in connection with a nearly two-decade scheme to drain clients’ accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: Kenneth Gibson, 42, of Fort Collins, Colorado, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Feb. 27, 2014, for escape from custody. Gibson was arrested in Fort Collins, Colorado. He received 27 months imprisonment, to be followed by two years of supervised release, and was ordered to pay a $100.00 special assessment. This case was investigated by the U.S. Marshals Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Malika Fateen, 31, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a five-year prison term for an unprovoked attack in which she went after a woman with a butcher knife at a bus stop, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 28, 2014
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, Daniel P. McMullen, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Mississippi, Phillip M. Durham, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Keith Brown, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration, New Orleans Field Division, announced that.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury indicted brothers Luis Cortez-Garcia, 44, and Emiliano Cortez-Garcia, 37, of Sacramento, today charging them with unlawful manufacturing and sales of firearms, conspiracy to unlawfully manufacture and sell firearms, and several counts each related to the unlawful ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Michael Romano, 47, the leader of a telemarketing scheme that defrauded elderly investors across the country, was sentenced today in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, to 20 years in prison to be followed by five years of supervised release. As part of the sentence, Romano was ordered to pay $9,139,727.10...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 27, 2014
News Release: Director of Public Affairs Brian Fallon released the following statement this morning: “During his regular morning meeting with senior staff, the Attorney General began experiencing symptoms including faintness and shortness of breath. As a precaution, the Attorney General was taken to MedStar Washington ...
