News from July 2014
By State Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement following the announcement of additional sanctions against Russia...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Defendant Pleaded Guilty to Witness Tampering, Making a False Statement to HUD and Deprivation Under Color of Law.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Representative Fred Upton (R-Mich), Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, today highlighted a new GAO report entitled, “MEDICAID: Assessment of Variation among States in Per-Enrollee Spending,...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: By popular demand, visitors to Fort Vancouver National Historic Site will once again hear the phrase, "Striker to the line!".
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PASS, 61, and P&W WASTE OIL SERVICES INC. (P&W), of Leland, N.C., were sentenced today in federal court in Raleigh, North Carolina. PASS was sentenced to 42 months in prison and restitution in the amount of $21,373,143.38...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding corporate inversions...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is offering a two-day Hawaiian music songwriting retreat for beginners on Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17. Hawaiian music, language and haku mele (Hawaiian song) experts Kenneth Makuakāne and Kaliko Trapp-Beamer will lead the workshops.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - As part of Convention Days Celebration 2014, Women's Rights National Historical Park will be holding the First Annual Convention Paddle along the Cayuga-Seneca Canal on Sunday, July 20th. Join National Park Service rangers and avid kayakers, Women on Water, for a paddle through history...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement on the Obama administration’s announcement of a new round of economic sanctions on Russia for that country’s failure to deescalate tensions on the Russia-Ukraine border:
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Willard John, 36, of Cibecue, Arizona, was found guilty of Second Degree Murderby a federal jury in Phoenix on July 11, 2014. The case was tried before U.S. District Judge James A. Teilborg. The defendant, who remains in custody, is scheduled to be sentenced before Judge Teilborg on Oct. 15, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: One Of 63 Defendants Charged In Sweeping Investigation Into.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Wrangell-St. Elias National Parkand Preserve wildland fire staff will burn 40 piles of debris consisting of trees and brush beginning July 21 through July 26. The piles are located at the Kiagna cabin site near McCarthy. Fire staff will ignite the debris piles in the morning and monitor them throughout the day. Smoke may be visible throughout the area.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Lightning ignited two new fires in Noatak National Preserve. The Noatak River fire is located north of the Noatak River and east of Narvakrak Lake. This fire was estimated at 300 acres burning in brush and tundra and exhibiting two to four foot flame lengths with 100 percent of the perimeter active.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 35-year-old New Boston, Texas woman has been sentenced to 18 years in federal prison on a biological weapons charge in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales and Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin today.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is investing $236.3 million to help modernize and improve the reliability of rural electric systems in eight states.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Today, Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) introduced H.R. 5133, the “Protecting Employees and Retirees in Municipal Bankruptcies Act of 2014," along with Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas), Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), and Henry C. “Hank" Johnson (D-Ga.). Specifically, this legislation amends ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement after receiving a letter from Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urging Congressional action to stop inversions...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Vale, South Dakota, man charged with Lacey Act Violations pled guilty to and was sentenced on July 11, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Veronica L. Duffy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina -----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that James A. Newton, age 54, of Easley, South Carolina, pled guilty today in federal court in Anderson, South Carolina, to possession of child pornography, a violation of 18 U.S.C. ' 2252A. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain accepted the plea and will sentence Newton once a pre-sentence investigation report has been prepared by the U.S. Probation Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 16, 2014
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Walter P. Lambert, a/k/a “Buddy," 73, of Pen Argyl, PA, was charged by information, filed yesterday, with 16 counts of mail fraud, five counts of wire fraud, and one count of interfering with the due administration of the Internal Revenue Service, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
