News from February 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., February 5, 2014 - Today, the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held an oversight hearing on “Energy in America: BLM’s Red-Tape Run Around and its Impact on American Energy Production." The hearing examined the adverse impacts of the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) practices and motivations surrounding energy production on federal lands.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Wyoming State Office has posted its proposed list of parcels for the quarterly competitive oil and gas lease sale scheduled for Tuesday, May 6, 2014, at the Holiday Inn in Cheyenne, Wyo. Doors open at 7 a.m. with the auction beginning at 8 a.m.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Southwest Resource Advisory Council meeting scheduled for Friday, Feb. 7, in Montrose has been canceled due to inclement weather throughout southwest Colorado. The next meeting is May 16, 2014, at the Gunnison County Fairgrounds Multi-Purpose Building (275 S. Spruce St.) in Gunnison, Colo. An agenda will be posted online prior to the meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Mark Karas, 52, of Tucson, AZ, was sentenced today to 30 months of imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge that he conspired to distribute oxycodone. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered that Karas serve three years of supervised release following completion of his prison term. Karas has been incarcerated since his arrest last April.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Tonight, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following response to the President’s State of the Union address.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that ROBERT DEWAYNE GIFFORD, age 62, of Mannford, Oklahoma, pled guilty to an Information in federal court today. The defendant is charged with THEFT OR BRIBERY CONCERNING PROGRAMS RECEIVING FEDERAL FUNDS, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section §666(a)(1)(B) and MONEY LAUNDERING, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1957.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Philip R. Bartlett, the Inspector-in-Charge of the New York Office of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (“USPIS"), today announced the unsealing of an Indictment in Manhattan federal court charging JOSEPH MOSSERI, ALBERT...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., released a joint report that finds the Obama Administration did not conduct an adequate review of key issues prior to expanding health insurance subsidies created by the Affordable Care Act.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement responding to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) announcement to proceed with a review and examination of whole-economy modeling and its ability to capture more complete ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Arthur Gregg Hutchins, 67, under supervised release for a previous conviction of possessing child pornography, has been ordered to prison again, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal grand jury has indicted a former Social Security Administration claims representative for using his position to steal identifying information and benefits from Social Security beneficiaries, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Social Security Administration, Office of Inspector General, Special Agent in Charge Guy Fallen.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “Protecting Consumer Information: Can Data Breaches Be Prevented?" In light of recent high-profile criminal attacks capturing the personal and financial information of millions...
By USDA Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that W. Atlee Burpee Company Inc., Warminster, Pa., has paid $825 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- The Bureau of Land Management announced today a public scoping meeting concerning a coal Lease by Application proposal north of Loma, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - W.R. Grace & Co, based in Columbia, Md., paid over $63 million to the U.S. government under its bankruptcy plan of reorganization to resolve claims for environmental cleanups at approximately 39 sites in 21 states, the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: MANHATTAN, N.Y. - James J. Hunt, the Acting Special Agent in Charge of the New York Field Division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that Yesid Rios Suarez pled guilty on February 4, 2013 in Manhattan federal...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), today held a hearing on “Protecting Consumer Information: Can Data Breaches Be Prevented?" In light of recent high-profile criminal attacks capturing the personal and financial information of millions...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) issued the following statements after the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released an “ambush election" rule that significantly alters union election procedures...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif.) - Today, a Phoenix man was sentenced for growing marijuana in Madera County, and a Fresno man pleaded guilty to growing marijuana in Madera county, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick and United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2014
News Release: Ways and Means Committee Republicans today were aghast at President Obama noting on Sunday that not “even a smidgeon of corruption" has been uncovered through the nine-month Congressional investigations into the IRS singling out of applications for tax-exempt status. “The truth of the matter is, we don’t...
