News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Randal Bellestri of Oxford, Michigan, owner of Odyssey, Inc. a Lake Orion, MI corporation, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count each of filing false tax returns and conspiring to file false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service, United States Attorney Barbara McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - This morning, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Syracuse Office, and the United States Postal Inspection Service, arrested BRIAN DANIEL NORTON, age 59, of Cicero, New York, on federal felony charges of mailing threatening communications and transmitting false information and hoaxes in violation of 18 U.S.C. §876(c) and 1038(a), respectively, according to United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding recent energy policies proposed by the Obama Administration, some of which are similar to European policies that have contributed to energy insecurity and economic decline.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today advanced three bipartisan bills that have moved through the Subcommittee on Health, building on a proven record of success on public health issues. The committee advanced H.R. 4299, the Improving Regulatory Transparency for New Medical Therapies...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL) sent a letter to newly-installed Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding the legal ability of HHS to issue payments to health insurance...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Ronnie Lee Johnson, a/k/a "Ronnie Lee Durham," and "Ronnie Paul Johnson," 51, of Alexandria, Virginia and formerly of Feasterville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 16 months in prison, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The defendant previously pled guilty to five counts of Social...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: This morning, Tuesday, June 10, park rangers were notified that a 24-year-old man from Fort Collins was overdue from the Longs Peak area in Rocky Mountain National Park. The man had left at approximately 2:00 am on Monday morning, June 9, from Fort Collins. He was expected at work at 4:00 p.m. yesterday. An investigation revealed he likely planned to travel along the Keyhole Route.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a Democratic staff memo with detailed new information about the Committee’s investigation of the processes used by the Social Security Administration to provide financial assistance to workers with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jeffrey.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved two bills that continue the committee’s efforts to create jobs, build the Architecture of Abundance, and advance energy efficiency as part of an “all-of-the-above" energy strategy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today the successful resolution of a civil prosecution alleging violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) against Ronnie E. Stone, aka Ron Stone, and Ron Stone M.D. Medical Weight Management Inc. Dr. Stone paid the United States $250,000 to settle the federal claims.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today spoke on the Senate floor ahead of tomorrow’s Senate vote on the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, a bill that would allow borrowers with outstanding student...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, N.J., woman today admitted paying bribes to a former Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employee who worked as a supervisory engineer at the VA’s campus in East Orange, N.J., U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - Illinois State Rep. DERRICK SMITH (10th District) was convicted today on federal corruption charges for accepting a $7,000 cash bribe in March 2012 to write an official letter of support for a daycare center that he believed was seeking a state grant as part of an undercover investigation. Smith was found guilty by a jury that began deliberating Monday afternoon following a trial that began on May 28.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved two bills that continue the committee’s efforts to create jobs, build the Architecture of Abundance, and advance energy efficiency as part of an “all-of-the-above" energy strategy.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL) sent a letter to newly-installed Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell regarding the legal ability of HHS to issue payments to health insurance...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Daniel Ariza-Garcia, to 10 years in federal prison, followed by 5 years of supervised release. Mr. Ariza-Garcia pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine on Feb. 25, 2014. Ariza-Garcia...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A total of 24 alleged members of a cocaine, crack and marijuana trafficking network have been arrested and charged in an indictment with multiple violations of federal law, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit and United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A 25th defendant was also taken into custody and charged by criminal complaint. The defendants are all residents of Laredo, Texas.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee, and EPW Ranking Member, Senator David Vitter (R-LA), issued the statement below following the President's signing of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act (WRRDA) into law. Senator Boxer ...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 10, 2014
News Release: Today the President signed into law the Conference Report to the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 (WRRDA), bipartisan water resources legislation that cuts federal red tape and bureaucracy, streamlines the infrastructure project delivery process, fosters fiscal responsibility, and strengthens our water transportation networks to promote America’s competitiveness, prosperity, and economic growth.