News from June 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., June 26, 2014 - Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 4899, the Lowering Gasoline Prices to Fuel an America that Works Act, with a bipartisan vote of 229-185. This legislation would help ease the pain at the pump for American families and businesses by expanding production of American energy resources.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court decision in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) v. Noel Canning.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Alaska Department of Fish & Game (ADF&G) Emergency Order Number 03-03-14 closes the southern portion of Unit 25B, including the Yukon River and the islands of the Yukon River, to state subsistence and state general hunts for caribou. This emergency order does not apply to federally qualified subsistence users within Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve at this time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted two doctors, Paramjit Singh Ajrawat, age 60, and his wife, Sukhveen Kaur Ajrawat, age 56, both of Potomac, Maryland, on charges of health care fraud in connection with the pain clinic they owned and operated. The indictment was returned on June 24, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney James L. Santelle announced that on June 25, 2014, Billy Cannon, Sr. (49) of Milwaukee, WI, was sentenced to 48 months in prison for wire fraud and money laundering. His incarceration will be concurrent to a 16 year sentence he received earlier this year in state court for drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: HUNTSVILLE -- U.S. District Judge Virginia Emerson Hopkins today sentenced the Ball Cap Bandit to seven years and three months in prison for his string of 11 bank robberies in 2012 and 2013, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Tylon Vaughn, also known as “Bucky B," 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 144 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine and marijuana.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
Release: WASHINGTON, DC, June 26, 2014 - Today Agriculture Under Secretary Kevin Concannon announced the availability of up to $7 million in grant funds to prevent recipient trafficking in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Through increased oversight and improvements in program management...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Edgar Pagan Was Serving A State Sentence Of Home Confinement.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today applauded the Senate’s confirmation of Karen Dynan to be assistant secretary for economic policy at the Treasury Department by a voice vote.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led a group of seven Senators in sending a letter to Nancy Stoner, Acting Assistant Administrator of the Office of Water at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), regarding EPA's attempts to impose stormwater regulations upon American military bases and the Agency's controversial proposal to expand their federal authority under the Clean Water Act (CWA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A Florence couple pleaded guilty today in federal court to multiple charges that they exploited a minor child in their custody to produce child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Cecil R. Rice, Jr. was sentenced today in Federal Court after pleading guilty to possession with intent to distribute marijuana. Rice received a sentence of 46 months imprisonment, with 3 years of supervised release to follow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen Brown announces that Keith Kidd was sentenced today in Federal Court after pleading guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm. Kidd received a sentence of 18 months imprisonment, with 3 years of supervised release to follow. Kidd was taken into custody immediately after the hearing to begin serving his sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Leaders from the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee today introduced bipartisan legislation to strengthen and improve post-acute care for Medicare beneficiaries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. - On June 25, 2014, The Drug Enforcement (DEA), Miami Field Division, Port St. Lucie Resident Office assisted the Port St. Lucie (PSLPD) Special Investigation Division execute a search warrant on a suspected marijuana “Shatter" processing house located at 2024 SW Savage Boulevard, Port St. Lucie, Florida. During the search, detectives and agents located a marijuana “Shatter" processing operation in the residence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On June 26, 2014, James Amos Parker, 47, of Alcoa, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 120 months in prison by the Honorable Danny C. Reeves, U.S. District Judge. Parker pleaded guilty in February 2014 to a federal grand jury indictment charging him with attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity using a computer in interstate commerce.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, June 26, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that GARI-MARK THOMAS, 39, of Michigan, formerly of Norwalk, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. - Limited shuttle service on the west side of Glacier National Park began today, June 26, providing visitor access to The Loop area of the Going-to-the-Sun Road. East-side shuttle service is not anticipated to begin until the entire length of the road is open to vehicle traffic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Jose A. Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), announce that Jeffrey Emil Groover, 53, formerly of Delray Beach, was convicted by a jury of all six counts with which...
