News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, June 4, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON, OHIO - Julia Immaculata Lucente, 55 of Dayton pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to illegally prescribing oxycodone while she was a physician at the...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Statement of Senator Barbara Boxer Oversight Hearing: "NRC's Implementation of the Fukushima Near-Term Task Force Recommendations and other Actions to Enhance and Maintain Nuclear Safety" June 4, 2014 (Remarks as prepared for delivery) Today, the Environment and Public Works Committee is holding its ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: In a letter to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, Ways and Means Republicans are now demanding an immediate halt to all tax credits issued to millions of Americans who signed up for health insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplace. The demand aims to make political hay out of the fact that HHS...
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - During an oversight hearing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today, U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released a detailed expert legal analysis dismantling the NRC's basis for refusing to provide the Committee ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler seeking an update on the agency’s workload and backlog of issues that are currently pending before the commission.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “21st Century Cures: Examining the Role of Incentives in Advancing Treatments and Cures for Patients." Witnesses to be announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: A section of the White Rim Road in Canyonlands National Park will be closed from July 7th through July 11th to allow for replacement of a large culvert under the road.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of theft of government money, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Contact: Public Information Officer. Number: (313) 234-4310. DAYTON, OHIO - Julia Immaculata Lucente, 55 of Dayton, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to illegally prescribing oxycodone while she was a physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dayton. Carter M. Stewart, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: A convicted bank robber who absconded from supervised release, was arrested in Hillsboro, Oregon, Monday June 2, 2014, after being on the run for nearly five years, announced U.S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. BRADLEY STEVEN ROBINETT, 45, fled following a car chase on Bainbridge Island, Washington, in September ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today joined a group of 20 senators in calling on state governors to expand Medicaid in their states under the Affordable Care Act. In a letter to the 18 governors who have yet...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement regarding reports from the AP that more than 1 in 4, or at least 2 million, Obamacare enrollees have data discrepancies...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Alejandro Santos, 34, a former U.S. Customs broker, has been ordered to prison following his convictions related to the smuggling of goods into the country, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala, of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in San Antonio. Santos pleaded guilty May 14, 2013, before U.S. Magistrate Judge J. Scott Hacker.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - ROBERT DIAZ JR., a consultant to a Boeing sub-contractor, pled guilty to fraud charges in connection with a bribery/kickback scheme involving Boeing military aircraft parts during May 2011 through April 2013.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released new documents that indicate, as of May 27, there are at least 4 million recorded inconsistencies in health care applications in the Federally Facilitated Marketplace. The documents also indicate that the health care exchanges launched...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: Effective Thursday, June 5, the Bureau of Land Management Gila District, all districts of theCoronado National Forest, Saguaro National Park, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, Coronado National Memorial, Chiricahua National Monument, Fort Bowie National Historic Site, Tumacácori National Historical...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assaulting, Resisting and Impeding Federal Officers and Discharge of a Firearm During a Crime of Violence was sentenced on June 3, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lida Amin, 40, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Dublin, Calif., pleaded guilty today to conspiring to bribe a public official in furtherance of an ongoing effort to secure government contracts through graft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today wrote to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler seeking an update on the agency’s workload and backlog of issues that are currently pending before the commission.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 4, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “21st Century Cures: Examining the Role of Incentives in Advancing Treatments and Cures for Patients." Witnesses to be announced.
