News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 58-year-old Arlington, Texas, man has been sentenced for counterfeiting violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Florida: Everglades National Park will be conducting the East Everglades Unit 3 Prescribed Burn on Wednesday, June 25, beginning at 8:00 a.m. (weather permitting). The burn unit is located 3 miles northeast of Chekika, between southwest 136th Street and southwest 120th Street near the 8 ½...
By State Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today passed the International Child Abduction Prevention and Return Act and Energize Africa.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul announced today that John E. Maye, 59, of Rochester, N.Y., who was convicted following a federal jury trial of unlawful distribution and dispensing of a controlled substance, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -At today’s hearing before the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Democrats strongly condemned Committee Chairman Darrell Issa’s rushed decision last night to issue a unilateral subpoena to compel the testimony of Jennifer O’Connor, a former IRS employee who started work at the White House less than a month ago.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today will vote on important job-creating energy legislation authored by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX). H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, modernizes the outdated approval process...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew today sentenced Jose Samir Renteria-(51, Cali, Colombia), a/k/a “Jose Morfi," to 27 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine onboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Renteria-Cuero pleaded guilty on February 6, 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives this evening is poised to consider five bipartisan public health bills led by the Energy and Commerce Committee. The measures build upon the committee’s proven record of success with a number of legislative accomplishments to improve public health already...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Florissant Fossil Beds, Colorado Springs' closest national park unit, is offering a variety of new ranger guided programs for the public for the summer of 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: In Del Rio this afternoon, 60-year-old Abel De Leon of Asherton, TX, was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison followed by five years of supervised release for receiving child pornography announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Janice Ayala.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today kicked off debate on H.R. 6, the Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act. The legislation is a commonsense, bipartisan solution to expedite the export of U.S. natural gas to our allies by eliminating red tape and forcing the Department of Energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: GREAT FALLS) The United States Attorney's Office announced that RHONDA LEE WRIGHT, 48, of Richland, Washington, was sentenced to a term of 110 months' imprisonment, to be followed by five years on supervised release, on June 19, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris. Wright was sentenced in connection with her March 18, 2014, guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today will vote on important job-creating energy legislation authored by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX). H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, modernizes the outdated approval process...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today kicked off debate on H.R. 6, the Domestic Prosperity and Global Freedom Act. The legislation is a commonsense, bipartisan solution to expedite the export of U.S. natural gas to our allies by eliminating red tape and forcing the Department of Energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 24, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Casey Allen Heflin, 28, of Boaz, Kentucky, pled guilty yesterday in United States District Court in East St. Louis to an indictment charging him with robbing the Old National Bank branch...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: NORTHSHORE ROAD TEMPORARILY CLOSED AFTER FATAL MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 The following op-ed from Secretary Johnson ran in Spanish-language outlets over the weekend. Please see the English translation below.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Department Implementing New Farm Bill Programs, Unveiling New Centralized Online Resource to Support Next Generation of Farmers DAVIS, Calif., June 23, 2014 - U.S. Agriculture Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden today announced the implementation of new Farm Bill measures and other policy changes to improve ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: The owner and operator of Nestor’s Health Services, Inc. (Nestor HH), a now-defunct Miami home health care agency, pleaded guilty today in connection with a $6.5 million health care fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday said that the Justice Department will continue to investigate financial institutions that knowingly facilitate consumer scams, or that willfully look the other way in processing such fraudulent transactions. He acknowledged that multiple investigations were ongoing in this area, and said he expected several of those cases to be resolved in the coming months.
