News from January 2014
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today commented on the agreement signed between the state of Alaska, TransCanada, and the state’s three major oil producers for a proposed North Slope liquefied natural gas project:
By Interior Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Alaska's National Parks invite public comment on each park's compendium through Feb. 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Lynwood Man Becomes Eighth Convicted of Sex Trafficking Charges for Prostituting Teenage Girls Recruited from Inland Empire Schools.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10:00 a.m. ET, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the current turmoil in South Sudan. The hearing, entitled “South Sudan’s Broken Promise?," follows a letter sent from Chairman Royce and other Congressional leaders to the South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit to express their deep concern about the growing ethnic violence and deteriorating security situation there.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today responded to the Environmental Protection Agency’s release of the final watershed assessment of state-owned lands in Alaska’s Bristol Bay region:
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today announced several additions to the Republican staff of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The new staff hires include Alaskans Mimi Braniff and Chelsea Thompson. Cathy Cahill is also joining the committee as a congressional fellow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Savannah, GA - Charles Johnson III, a/k/a “Chuckie," 26, of Savannah, Georgia, was indicted last week by a federal grand jury sitting in Savannah on charges related to six bank robberies in the Savannah area. Johnson was charged with one count of bank robbery, one count of conspiracy to commit armed bank robbery, five counts of armed bank robbery, two counts of using a firearm during a crime of violence and the unlawful possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 29-year-old Palestine, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Rick Higgins (33, Oldsmar) to two years and nine months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone. In addition, he was ordered to serve a 3-year term of supervision, following his incarceration. As part of the sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $239,000, the proceeds of his Oxycodone distribution.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Lee Terry (R-NE) today announced plans for a hearing the first week of February to examine data breaches and their effect on consumers. Target, which recently suffered a breach that compromised the information of approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Neel Jackson, 35, of Philadelphia, PA, pleaded guilty today to health care fraud in connection with a scheme involving Brotherly Love Ambulance, Inc. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for April 17, 2014.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senator Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, participated in the Finance Committee hearing to consider the nomination of R. Gil Kerlikowske to be the Commissioner of Customs, Department of Homeland Security. For more information or Sen. Carper’s statement, as prepared for delivery, follows...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held its first hearing focused on the committee’s plans for an open and transparent multi-year process leading to a comprehensive #CommActUpdate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A Sylacauga man pleaded guilty today in federal court to a $72,000 wire fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud the Tennessee Valley Authority, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Liberado Peralta, 69, of Allentown, Pennsylvania, was charged today by indictment with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States with respect to claims and three counts of aggravated identity theft, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 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 entitled A False Narrative Endangers the Homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal grand jury in Scranton returned an Indictment yesterday against Ronnie Perkins, age 23, an inmate incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institute at Schuylkill yesterday.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has one of the largest automobile fleets in the federal government with 56,000 vehicles costing $534 million. That equates to about 4.5 DHS employees to every car owned by the department. A new audit has found that the DHS does not effectively keep track of Home-to-Work...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final Bristol Bay Assessment released today. In contrast to a fair and transparent regulatory process, the report analyzes potential mining impacts in hypothetical circumstances, even though proponents have not yet applied for a federal environmental permit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William G. Squires Jr., Special Agent-in-Charge, U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of the Inspector General (“USDA-OIG"), and Charles Gardner, Commissioner of the City of Yonkers Police Department, announced the unsealing...
