News from January 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - - Jose E. Lopez Mauricio, aka “Flaco," 28, of Warwick, R.I., and Jorge Guzman-Rivera, 28, of New Bedford, Mass., have been ordered detained in federal custody on drug trafficking charges following their arrest and the seizure of two kilos of cocaine by the Rhode Island FBI Safe Street Task Force, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Vincent B. Lisi, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston field office of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Chillicothe, Mo., husband and wife were indicted by a federal grand jury today for filing a false income tax return by not claiming the income from a wire fraud scheme in which the wife embezzled nearly $4 million from her employer, Burdg, Dunham & Associates Construction Corp. in Hamilton, Mo.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Today this Committee is holding a hearing on an issue that has been rehashed many times. Yet it has failed to have a hearing on an issue also in our jurisdiction that already has directly affected the lives of 1.6 million people - their total loss of unemployment insurance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that on Jan. 24, 2014, United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Cameron Mitchell, age 53 of Lincoln, to 370 months in the custody of the Bureau of Prisons following his guilty pleas and convictions related to his robbery of seven banks...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement this evening following President Obama’s State of the Union address...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Guest blog post by Patrick Gallagher, Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JONATHAN WALLY, a Police Officer with the New York City Police Department (“NYPD") at the time of his offenses, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to five years of probation for tax fraud and identity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: DENVER -- Eric and Ryan Jensen, owners of Jensen Farms, were sentenced this morning by U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael E. Hegarty to serve 5 years’ probation, with the first 6 months in home detention. Each defendant was also sentenced to 100 hours of community service. Finally, the Jensen brothers were each ordered to pay restitution totaling $150,000, or $25,000 per count for each of the six counts charged, consecutive, with the money going to the victims of their crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Nicholas Aquilante, 49, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged today by indictment, Jan. 21, 2014, with bank robbery, announced U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges that Aquilante committed a robbery of Republic Bank, located at 833 Chestnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on July 5, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Thaddeus Vaskas, 50, of Tunkhannock PA, was sentenced today to 14 years in prison for one count of possession of child pornography. Vaskas pleaded guilty to that charge on March 21, 2013. Vaskas is a repeat offender, having been sentenced to 20 months in prison for a 2001 conviction for...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, sent a letter to Jonathan B. Jarvis, Director of the National Park Service (NPS), regarding the NPS's intention to use a controversial survey method in order to assign a monetary value to increased "visibility" ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved two bipartisan bills as part of its ongoing pursuit of an all-of-the-above energy strategy. H.R. 2126, the Better Buildings Act, advanced by voice vote and H.R. 3826, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act, passed by a vote of 29 to 19.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 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 welcomed reports that CTIA - The Wireless Association and two Los Angeles broadcasters, KLCS and KJLA, are seeking permission from the FCC to...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement this evening following President Obama’s State of the Union address...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 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 welcomed reports that CTIA - The Wireless Association and two Los Angeles broadcasters, KLCS and KJLA, are seeking permission from the FCC to...
By USDA Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: The Agricultural Act of 2014 achieves savings in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) solely by stopping fraud and misuse, while maintaining critical assistance for families. Savings in this section are achieved without removing anyone from the SNAP program, and ensures that every person receives the benefits they are intended to get under the current rules of the program.
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives unanimously passed legislation - originally an initiative authored by Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee - which extends the U.S.-South Korea civil nuclear energy agreement for two years. The legislation, S. 1901,...
By State Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released this statement following tonight’s State of the Union address...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement this evening following President Obama’s State of the Union address...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 28, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved two bipartisan bills as part of its ongoing pursuit of an all-of-the-above energy strategy. H.R. 2126, the Better Buildings Act, advanced by voice vote and H.R. 3826, the Electricity Security and Affordability Act, passed by a vote of 29 to 19.
