News from February 2014
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Senator Barbara Boxer Keystone Pipeline and the Threat to Human Health Feb. 26, 2014 (As prepared for delivery) We are here today to share dramatic new information that will shine a spotlight on the health impacts of tar sands oil - health impacts that are already being felt in communities exposed ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Release date: Immediate. Contact(s): John Quinley. Phone number: 907-644-3512. Date: Feb. 24, 2014. Hearings Set on Wildlife Hunting Restrictions. The National Park Service is holding public hearings in March on temporary restrictions for certain sport hunting practices in several national preserves...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today the sentencing of a former employee of the Bon-Ton Stores Foundation for mail fraud and tax evasion in connection with the theft of more than $1.3 million. Christine S. DeJuliis, 53, of York, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to serve five years in federal prison for stealing from the Bon-Ton Stores Foundation and failing to pay taxes on the money she stole.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden today applauded a new report showing record-breaking recoveries from federal efforts to combat health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Henry Washington Yeh, age 32, of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today to filing false and fraudulent tax returns. Henry Yeh’s father, Jimmy An-Twig Yeh, age 57, and his mother Zhi Hua Wang Yeh, age 60, both of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty to aiding the filing of false tax returns.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement in response to the release of the State Department Inspector General report over the Keystone XL pipeline review...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding today's deadline for submitting comments on the increased social cost of carbon estimates. Vitter has been critical of the development of these estimates throughout the ...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: Multiple Analyses Find Administration’s Proposed Rule Would Lead to More #BrokenPromises, Higher Costs, and Fewer Choices for Seniors
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: MIDDLESEX COUNTY, Va. - Connie Rhoades Bowler, 47, of Gloucester, Virginia; Melody Rhoades Green, 52, of Topping, Virginia; John Stacey Rhoades, 41, of Hayes, Virginia; Brandon Bowler, 22, of Gloucester, Virginia; Robert Rhoades, 19, of Hayes, Virginia; Christopher Lowery, 29, of Farnham, Virginia; and...
By DOL Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today after the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) filed a lawsuit against ITT Educational Services alleging predatory lending tactics. The high-interest rate ITT private loan programs at issue in the lawsuit were first exposed at Harkin’s June 2011 HELP Committee hearing on the for-profit college sector.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today released the following statement in response to the release of the State Department Inspector General report over the Keystone XL pipeline review...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: A grand jury returned a three-count indictment charging Eric Castillo, 33, of Lorain, with one count of bank robbery and two counts of robbery affecting interstate commerce, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
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By Commerce Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: JILA physicists used an ultrafast laser and help from German theorists to discover a new semiconductor quasiparticle-a handful of smaller particles that briefly condense into a liquid-like droplet.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gabby G. Andrade, 36, a non-Indian from Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to an indictment charging him with assaulting an Indian woman, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven C. Yarbrough, Special Agent in Charge DuWayne W. Honahni, Sr., of District IV of BIA’s Office of Justice Services, and Chief Kevin Mariano of the Isleta Pueblo Tribal Police Department.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: The 4th annual Vintage Day celebration will be held in Everglades National Park this Saturday March 1, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Visitors of all ages will have the opportunity to interact with the characters that helped create Everglades National Park-one of the most biologically and culturally diverse parks in the world.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Committee on Homeland Security Ranking Member Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS) delivered the following prepared remarks for the full Committee hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson - The Secretary's Vision for the Future - Challenges and Priorities...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 26, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Twenty-eight individuals residing in San Juan County, N.M., and a woman from Meza, Ariz., are facing drug trafficking charges as the result of a multi-agency investigation targeting drug trafficking in northwestern New Mexico. The investigation culminated today when 25 of the defendants...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Subcommittee Ranking Member Gerry Connolly, D-Va., urged members of Congress to support H.R. 1232, the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act (FITARA), on which the House will vote today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Diagnostic Imaging Group (DIG) has agreed to pay a total of $15.5 million to resolve allegations that its diagnostic testing facilities falsely billed federal and state health care programs for tests that were not performed or not medically necessary and by paying kickbacks to physicians.
