News from February 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to Chairman Doc Hastings (R-WA) requesting a hearing on the potential economic, consumer, and environmental impacts of lifting the American crude oil export ban. The letter was cosigned...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY - A Louisville based tobacco wholesaler and retailer was sentenced in U.S. District Court yesterday, by Chief District Judge Joseph H. McKinley, Jr., to 18 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his role in a scheme that defrauded the Commonwealth of Kentucky of excise tax returns totaling more than $2 million announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: MONROE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that the former Madison Parish Hospital administrator and two of its vendors were sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge Robert G. James for health care fraud. They pleaded guilty in October and November of 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: 92 defendants have been charged to date in Operation Sledgehammer I-VI.
By State Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - As U.S. Olympians begin arriving in Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympics, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, today released a bipartisan video in support of Team USA. In...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Aundra Mason, a/k/a Grey Head, 36, of Jackson, was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute cocaine, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen announced today. Fifteen months of the sentence will run consecutively to a 135 month sentence for narcotics violations previously imposed in Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Florissant, CO: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument along with America's 400 other national park units will waive entrance fees from February 15 - Feb. 17, 2014 in honor of President's Day Weekend.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today firmly pressed the nominee for Assistant Secretary for Fish Wildlife and Parks, Rhea Suh on the Interior Department’s disregard for the needs and concerns of the people of Alaska.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: National Park to hold Voices of the Past event.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Karl Cordova, Superintendent (520) 723-3172. Casa Grande Ruins Offers Special Exhibitors. Native Basketry and Pottery - February 22 & 23, 2014. COOLIDGE, AZ- Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is featuring Mary Pablo, basket weaver, on Saturday, February 22 and pottery makers Ron Carlos and Jacob Butler...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., February 4, 2014 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee held a Full Committee legislative hearing on. This hearing examined draft legislation, released by House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) in December of 2013, that would renew and amend the Magnuson-Stevens...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: IRS Seizes Over Eighty Illegal Gray Machines from South Williamson, Kentucky Gambling Parlor.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Grand Canyon, AZ- The Coconino County Medical Examiner has identified the woman who died in a motor vehicle accident in Grand Canyon National Park on Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 as Yuan Gao, 24 of China.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Kevin D. Dowell, 37, of St. Louis, Missouri, entered a plea of guilty in federal district court to wire fraud in a scheme to defraud and embezzle from the FKG Oil Company, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today. Dowell faces a prison sentence...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man convicted of Possession of Child Pornography was sentenced on Feb. 3, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Rebecca Lee Rabon, 44, and Tiffany Nicole Thompson, 31, both of Houston, have been charged in a 44-count indictment alleging conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Janice Flores of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) - Southwest Field Office in Arlington.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Company that schemed to bilk BrickStreet out of millions in insurance premiums ordered to pay more than $4 million in restitution.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Republican bill to change the definition of the work week under the Affordable Care Act from 30 hours a week to 40 hours a week (H.R. 2575) would lead some employers to drop health insurance coverage for American workers, leaving some uninsured and others relying on Medicaid for their...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Ranking Member of the House Natural Resources Committee Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and 11 committee Democrats used a procedural move to ensure a broad range of voices can be heard before fundamental changes are made to our fisheries management regime. Democrats pursued the move at a hearing on legislation that undermines protections that are critical to maintaining healthy marine ecosystems for fish and fishermen.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Rebecca Lee Rabon, 44, and Tiffany Nicole Thompson, 31, both of Houston, have been charged in a 44-count indictment alleging conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Janice Flores of the Defense Criminal Investigative Service (DCIS) - Southwest Field Office in Arlington.
