News from June 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), on Thursday evening advanced six bipartisan bills to help improve the public health. The subcommittee approved legislation addressing children’s health, Muscular Dystrophy, Lyme disease, sunscreen, and anabolic steroids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Kyle.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - The former Executive Director of the Chelsea Housing Authority (CHA) was sentenced in federal court today for his role in rigging the inspection process for federally-funded housing units.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two men who earned the moniker the “Cowboy Gun Bandits" for brandishing a large-caliber revolver during a series of robberies have been arrested and are due to be arraigned this afternoon in United States District Court.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: * Op-Ed by Betti Wiggins of Detroit Public Schools emphasizes now is “not the time to waver from our national pursuit of improved nutrition in public schools"
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced that a federal jury returned unanimous verdicts of guilty yesterday afternoon against JOSEPH D. MELANCON, age 45, of Lafayette, Louisiana, for conspiring to steal firearms, possess and sell stolen firearms, and possess firearms by a convicted felon; stealing from a licensed federal firearms dealer; and possessing firearms as a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, June 20, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that MICHAEL THOMPSON, 35, of New Haven, was sentenced yesterday by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C.-Senate coauthors of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) today announced the Senate has reached agreement to consider the bill to improve the nation’s workforce development system and said it could be voted on as early as next week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -David E. Warren, 28, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 36 years in prison for the 2011 killing of a man in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: SILT, Colo. - Today the Bureau of Land Management announced its decision to approve the Sutey Ranch Land Exchange in Eagle, Garfield, and Pitkin counties, initiating a 45-day protest period.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), on Thursday evening advanced six bipartisan bills to help improve the public health. The subcommittee approved legislation addressing children’s health, Muscular Dystrophy, Lyme disease, sunscreen, and anabolic steroids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Irving Shendo, 59, a member of the Jemez Pueblo, pleaded guilty this morning to a felony information charging him with aggravated sexual abuse of a child. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Shendo will be sentenced to eight years in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Shendo also will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: A former school teacher was indicted by a federal grand jury today for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Grand Rapids businessman admits forging endorsements on $750,000 of US Treasury Checks.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management in Montana has re-opened the call for nominations for open positions on its Western and Central Montana Resource Advisory Councils, which advise the BLM on public land issues. The BLM will accept nominations until July 21.The BLM's RACs, comprised of citizens chosen for...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: On Sept. 11, 2013, the Internal Revenue Service provided this Committee with one of the 770,000 pages of documents it has turned over since Ways and Means undertook its investigation into the IRS in May 2013. In total, more than 250 IRS employees have spent over 120,000 hours working to produce documents at a cost of at least $16 million to taxpayers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: Schemers Used Phony HSBC Documents And Purported Attorney Escrow Account To Dupe Lone Victim.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of June 23, 2014. The committee will continue its 21st Century Cures initiative with a roundtable to discuss digital health care opportunities and will convene a hearing to conduct oversight of the Medicare program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Claudius Kai Kpakima, 34, of Silver Spring, Md., pled guilty today to a federal offense stemming from the embezzlement of more than $245,000 from his employer, a visa processing company, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr., Valerie Parlave, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Bryan Porter, Commonwealth’s Attorney for the City of Alexandria, Va.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today responded to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler’s latest proposal regarding the Universal Service Fund’s Schools and Library and Program.
