News from June 2014
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today said the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) unilateral effort to bypass Congress and impose climate regulations on the economy threatens the reliability and affordability of the U.S. power system.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) emphasizing the need for rigorous oversight and legislation regarding failed state Obamacare exchanges while highlighting the President’s nominee to head HHS, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, in her commitment to using “the full extent of the law to get those funds back for the taxpayers.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: Carl O’Neal of Queens, NY, was charged today by indictment with attempting to possess with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, in May 2014, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX - The U.S. Drug Enforcement (DEA) unveiled a billboard in Phoenix, Arizona seeking information for the capture of Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro-Quintero -. The new reward is being offered by the U.S. Department of State under the Narcotics Reward Program for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of Caro-Quintero, who kidnapped, tortured and murdered DEA Special Agent Enrique “Kiki" Camarena in 1985.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Roxbury man was sentenced today for stealing iPhones from the mail and making false statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Fokker Services B.V., a Dutch aerospace services provider, has agreed to forfeit $10.5 million to the United States for conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) by engaging in illegal transactions involving the export of aircraft parts, technologies...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - Earlier this week in federal court, a 21-year-old Mizpah man was sentenced for his role in the robbery of the First State Bank of Bigfork in Kelliher, Minnesota on Dec. 10, 2012. On June 3, 2014, United States District Court Judge Donovan W. Frank sentenced Cody Lowell Troy to 120 months...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Since a bipartisan, bicameral group of legislators announced a deal to improve the nation’s workforce development system through the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), a broad array of labor, business, and workforce development leaders, as well as governors and mayors from around the country, has expressed support for the proposal.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today applauded the confirmation of Sylvia Mathews Burwell to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. The Senate confirmed her nomination by a vote of 78 to 17. The HELP Committee held the Senate’s first hearing for Burwell on May 8.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Moises Tronilo, 28, of Providence, was sentenced today to 5 years in federal prison for trafficking heroin and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Divisionof the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, June 12, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “The President’s Health Care Law Does Not Equal Health Care Access." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today responded to the findings from General Motors’ internal investigation relating to the ignition switch recall. The committee leaders announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Patrick Brightwell, 48, of Bogart, Ga., pled guilty today to federal charges that he orchestrated the discharge of waste into the Potomac River at East Potomac Park from 2009 through 2011, during the same period he managed the company hired by the National Park Service to clean out the storm water sewer system on the National Mall.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of Republican House members today wrote the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an examination of the Obama administration’s recent proposal to transition Internet oversight to the global multi-stakeholder community. In March 2014, the National Telecommunications...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A group of Republican House members today wrote the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an examination of the Obama administration’s recent proposal to transition Internet oversight to the global multi-stakeholder community. In March 2014, the National Telecommunications...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that charges have been filed against Marc E. Barrett of Stamford, Connecticut.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: Water Resources and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Bob Gibbs (R-OH) will lead a hearing next week to examine the potential impacts of a United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and United States Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) proposed joint rulemaking to change the scope of federal jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Southeast Regional Director Stan Austin announced that Bob Krumenaker has been appointed as the next acting Superintendent for Everglades and Dry Tortugas National Parks, effective August 4.Krumenaker will replace the current acting superintendent, Shawn Benge who will return to his duties as deputy regional director in Atlanta.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A campaign worker pleaded guilty today for paying voters to vote in the November 2012 Donna school board election, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Ricardo Guerrero, 55, of Mathis, has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, conspiracy to launder money and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury in Corpus Christi convicted Guerrero following an eight-day trial and approximately two hours of deliberation on Tuesday, March 18, 2014.
