News from July 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Xavier Becerra (D-CA) today responded to the release of the 2014 Medicare Trustees Report and 2014 Social Security Trustees Report. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, George Venizelos, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), Chief Ramon Bethencourt of the City of Middletown Police Department, announced the arrest of seven defendants...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Fort Oglethorpe, GA: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and the Friends of the Park invite the public to come experience the newest edition to the Orchard Knob neighborhood. The park and Friends plan to unveil two new interpretive wayside exhibits atop the Orchard Knob Reservation. On...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: “With today’s verdict of guilty reached by an impartial and independent jury, the clean-up of corruption in New York continues in courtrooms. As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $20,000, Halloran was willing and able...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C.) - “Wealthy farmers are harvesting subsidies from sixty similar, overlapping and duplicative federal programs," U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-OK) said in response to a newly released report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) entitled, “Farmers Have Been Eligible for...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A former employee of the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC) pleaded guilty today to stealing over $239,000 in funds that were intended for educational programs to combat underage drinking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gabriel Gene Ortega, 34, an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Nation who resides in Mescalero, N.M., was sentenced this morning for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction. Ortega was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison to be followed by three years of supervised release.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at a hearing today called to end a loophole in the labeling of tobacco products that has cost American taxpayers more than $2 billion and hurt efforts to keep tobacco out of the hands of children.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that the Committee will meet TOMORROW, Wednesday, July 30 at 10:00 a.m. to consider...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has cited Chaparral Fruit Sales Inc., of San Antonio, Texas, for failure to pay for produce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On July 28, 2014, Michael Anthony McDaniel, age 46, formerly of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 84 months imprisonment, after pleading guilty to possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement on the nearing default deadline for Argentina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Kenny E. Toy, 54, the former Afloat Programs Manager at the United States Navy Military Sealift Command, was sentenced today to serve 96 months in prison for receiving bribes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was charged in federal court today with the robbery of Commerce Bank.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent letters to six Republican governors seeking information to help explain why some support the expansion of healthcare services to their constituents under the Medicaid program and others oppose it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Maung No, 25, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to preparation of false tax returns. The charge carries a maximum penalty of six years in prison, a fine of $100,000, or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Sheridan Gerard Lester, 24 was sentenced in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., this afternoon to 21 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his assault conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: A six-count indictment was filed in federal court today charging two people from Akron for their roles in distributing fentanyl, as well as firearms charges, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: The world's most widely used and trusted resource for identifying mass spectra, the "fingerprints" of molecules, has undergone a major expansion, according to its managers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). NIST 14, containing the newest edition of the NIST/EPA/NIH Mass Spectral...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2014
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement following Senate passage of the bill to maintain the Highway Trust Fund...
