News from February 2014
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the Chief Executive of Accenture Federal Services, the contractor recently hired by the administration to complete work on the health care law exchanges. As the letter explains, “Last month the Obama administration hired...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Holyoke man pleaded guilty today to embezzling $60,000 from the Boston Veteran’s Administration Research Institute (BVARI).
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Inspector General Arthur Elkins Jr., of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) regarding the OIG report, "Congressionally Requested Inquiry into ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: CITY GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson, Ottawa County Prosecutor Ronald J. Frantz, and ATF Special Agent in Charge, Steven Bogdalek joined U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles in announcing that Joseph Jerry Sweet, age 33, and Ronald Patrick Cook, age 28, both from the Grand Haven ...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Superintendent Barclay Trimble announced today that Cape Hatteras National Seashore (Seashore) will offer a temporary route for off-road vehicles (ORVs) on the weekend of Feb. 28, 2014, as a detour to a North Carolina Dept. of Transportation's (NCDOT) culvert replacement project and temporary closure of NC 12 in the village of Frisco.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Brian Patrick Aronhalt Will Serve 20 Years In Federal Prison.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 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 commented on the FCC’s response to the committee’s Dec. 10, 2013, letter regarding the commission’s Critical Information Needs (CIN) study.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - More than 20 people, including operators of home care agencies and nurse staffing agencies, office workers, and personal care assistants, were arrested today following investigations into fraudulent billing practices in the home health care industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: This morning, 27-year-old Larry Elmoe Drummer of San Antonio was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $8,581 for robbing the Chase Bank located in the Park North shopping center on Feb. 1, 2013, announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Federal Bureau of Investigation Acting Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Former CFO Of Company Previously Pled Guilty In Connection With Same Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A convicted felon from Wichita Falls, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Reed C. O’Connor on firearm and drug convictions, announced U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: Homestead, Florida: Everglades National Park invites the public to participate in a Public Information Meeting on the Federal Highway Administration Adoption of the National Park Service's Tamiami Trail Modifications: Next Steps Final Environmental Impact Statement will be held Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: In Del Rio today, 64-year-old Saul Lombrana, owner and operator of Fiesta Contractors based in Eagle Pass, admitted to paying a bribe in order to receive a Maverick County construction contract announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge Aaron C. Rouse, San Antonio Division.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate Committee leaders yesterday called on the administration to withdraw its proposed changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug program. In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Donna Spencer, 51, of Falconer, N.Y., pleaded guilty to misappropriation of postal funds by a postal service employee before Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000 or both.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the Chief Executive of Accenture Federal Services, the contractor recently hired by the administration to complete work on the health care law exchanges. As the letter explains, “Last month the Obama administration hired...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the Chief Executive of Accenture Federal Services, the contractor recently hired by the administration to complete work on the health care law exchanges. As the letter explains, “Last month the Obama administration hired...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Dalbert Rodriguez, 30, formerly of Holyoke, Mass., pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Donna F. Martinez in Hartford to his role in a robbery spree of pharmacies in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House and Senate Committee leaders yesterday called on the administration to withdraw its proposed changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug program. In a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 19, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JEROME R. THOMAS, 21, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Holly B. Fitzsimmons in Bridgeport to possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon.
