News from June 2014
By DOT News Wire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: More Than 30,000 Medical Professionals Now Listed on the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that 8,000 more health professionals have been added to the National Registry of Certified ...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN), Education and the Workforce Committee Senior Democrat George Miller (D-CA), Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Senior Democrat John Tierney (D-MA) issued the following joint statement after the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) released its latest financial projections report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that John C. Chen, 50, Seattle, Washington, was sentenced on June 30, 2014, before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to one year of probation for unlawful possession of an identification feature. Chen, a physician, was also ordered to pay restitution...
By USDA Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: Rainwater pounding on the glass windows of an office building or a home is less likely to bead up and reduce visibility if the windows are treated with a new, transparent coating from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chemist Sanghoon Kim and his colleagues.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: New Mexico’s standing as a paleontological hot spot has once again been confirmed. Recently, Bureau of Land Management (BLM) grazing permittees Tom and Sissy Olney reported that a possible mammoth tusk was eroding out of an arroyo bank on BLM land within their grazing allotment. The Olneys had noticed...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement today following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Harris v. Quinn.
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the reported discovery of the bodies of three Israeli teens, including one with American citizenship, who went missing earlier this month...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Ten individuals were arrested by federal, state and local authorities, announced Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following reports that a United Nation’s expert panel has concluded that Iran recently violated the U.N. arms embargo against it. The U.N. panel concluded that a shipment of rockets...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of New York. Monday, June 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that Veronica Fairchild, age 42, of Canistota, South Dakota, and Okoboji, Iowa, was found guilty of four counts of tax fraud as a result of a federal jury trial in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - After a trial that began on June 9, 2014, a federal jury deliberated for just the afternoon on June 26, 2014 before finding Robert Russell Spence, a previous resident of Duquesne, Pennsylvania who is also known as “Slick" or “Little Russ", guilty of taking part in both a cocaine conspiracy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Congressman Jim McDermott (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Health Subcommittee, issued the following statement in light of today's ruling by the Supreme Court that some for-profit private corporations, such as Hobby Lobby, can deny their employees contraceptive coverage...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Robert G. Wells, 63, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning to a five-year term of probation for embezzling money from an Indian tribal organization. Wells also was ordered to pay $214,594.13 in restitution to the Jicarilla Apache Nation, the victim of Wells’ criminal conduct.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park announces the following upcoming flight plans for July.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Dante Phearse, 33, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt to serve 33 months in prison for calling in a bomb threat to Congregation Beth Israel, a synagogue in Houston. The announcement is being made jointly by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: MEDFORD, OR - Victor Manuel Chavez, 40, of Medford, Oregon, was sentenced Monday to forty-one months in federal prison by Senior U.S. District Judge Owen M. Panner, after Chavez pleaded guilty in March 2014 to theft from interstate shipment and money laundering. As part of his sentence, Chavez was fined $25,000, will serve three years of post-prison supervised release, and must pay restitution to victims of the theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of distributing heroin, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe (R-TN) today issued the following joint statement after the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby Stores...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2014
News Release: Joseph W. Nagle, 53, of Deerfield Beach, Florida and the former president of Schuylkill Products Inc., was sentenced in federal court in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, today to 84 months imprisonment and ordered to pay fines totaling $27,600 for his role in a massive conspiracy to defraud the Disadvantage...
