News from February 2014
By EPA Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of Feb. 24, 2014. The committee will examine how the Obama administration’s attack on the Medicare Part D program will increase costs and reduce choices for seniors. The committee will also...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Jose Fidencio Perez, 40, of Seagraves, Texas, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 121 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in October 2013 to one count of possession of prepubescent child pornography and aiding and abetting, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: A hearing next Thursday of the Highways and Transit Subcommittee, chaired by U.S. Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI), will focus on highway freight mobility.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and José A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Angelo Ponds, 32, of Miami Gardens, and Sean Guillaume, 31, of Miramar, were sentenced today for their...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Dwayne Penn, formerly a police officer with the Clayton County Police Department assigned to the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force, was sentenced today to ten years in prison for conspiring to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: Helped Clients Fraudulently Obtain Multiple Home Equity Loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: In Less Than Two Years, Defendants Obtained Over $1.4 Million in Payments for Food Sales That Never Occurred; To Date, Eight Retailers Have Pleaded Guilty in Food Stamp Fraud Schemes.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement today after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed cuts to the Medicare Advantage (MA) program...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, and Stephen E. Vogt, Special Agent in Charge of the Baltimore Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today that defendants, DARRELL WILLIAMS, a/k/a “Blue," age 43 of Philadelphia, DAVID...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: Next week, the United States Supreme Court will hear oral arguments relating to the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas (GHG) regulations, and specifically whether EPA’s regulation of GHG emissions from new cars triggered GHG permitting requirements for stationary sources. At the time the...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: Francisco DeLaRosa, 40, of West Covina, Calif., and Tracey Young, 45, of Los Angeles, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Chief District Judge William J. Haynes, Jr. to conspiring to launder money derived from a scheme to defraud Nissan North America, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: SAGUACHE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management San Luis Valley Field Office is seeking public input on an environmental analysis for special recreation permits for commercial big game and mountain lion hunting outfitters.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: South Bend, Indiana - The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: ANCHORAGE -- The National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) Working Group will meet at the Westmark Hotel in Fairbanks on Feb. 27, 2014. This is the first regular meeting of the group, which was established by the Secretary of the Interior in the 2013 Record of Decision for the NPR-A Integrated Activity Plan/Environmental Impact Statement.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: KREMMLING - The Bureau of Land Management seeks comments on renewals of 11 livestock grazing permits that expire within the Kremmling Field Office boundaries in 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: Fort Wayne, Indiana -The United States Attorney’s Office announced the following activity in Federal Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa, Nicholas A. Klinefeldt, announces that Lafayette James Twyner, Jr., age 64, a former doctor in Newton, Iowa, pleaded guilty in United States District Court on Feb. 21, 2014, to one count of health care fraud and one count...
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Highways and Transit, chaired by U.S. Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI), will hold a roundtable policy discussion on Wednesday with representatives of the transportation community in preparation for the development of a surface transportation reauthorization bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - Haley Nicole Jordan, 33, of Creola, was sentenced today in federal court for her involvement in the possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine ice. Jordan was originally indicted in two counts, conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, and possession with...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 21, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Florida. Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Indictment Stems from USAO’s Liberty City/Little Haiti. Violence Reduction Partnership. Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Michael B. Steinbach, Special Agent...
