News from June 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard sentenced Amy Elizabeth Newby (42, Jacksonville) to 15 months in federal prison for mail fraud. As part of her sentence, the court also entered a money judgment in the amount of $85,050, the proceeds of the charged criminal conduct. Newby’s...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee today continued its investigation of the General Motors ignition switch recall with a hearing featuring testimony from GM CEO Mary Barra and Anton Valukas, who led the company’s internal investigation. Valukas’ report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
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By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee today continued its investigation of the General Motors ignition switch recall with a hearing featuring testimony from GM CEO Mary Barra and Anton Valukas, who led the company’s internal investigation. Valukas’ report...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee today continued its investigation of the General Motors ignition switch recall with a hearing featuring testimony from GM CEO Mary Barra and Anton Valukas, who led the company’s internal investigation. Valukas’ report...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: Seneca Falls, NY - Harriet Tubman and Mamie Till will be visiting Women's Rights National Historical Park on July 5th and 6th in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: Mr. Chairman, I want to congratulate you on the bipartisan and transparent manner in which you crafted the Fiscal Year 2015 Energy and Water bill. I also want to express my gratitude to Chairman Rogers, Ranking Member Lowey, and the other members of the Subcommittee for their efforts. Finally, I would...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, issued the following statement on news that the IRS destroyed Lois Lerner’s hard drive containing e-mails from the time period of IRS targeting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Miami man today admitted his role in a multi-state conspiracy to possess and sell prescription medication taken from a stolen tractor trailer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS-Recently in federal court, a jury found a Minneapolis man guilty of smuggling guns to Nigeria and lying on required federal firearms purchase records. Sheriff Olaleran Mohammed, 51, a naturalized U.S. citizen currently living in Brooklyn Park, was convicted on Monday of one count of Smuggling...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing with General Motors CEO Mary Barra and internal investigator Anton Valukas to examine Valukas’ investigation of the ignition switch recall and compare his report to the committee’s own findings. Members of the subcommittee expressed disbelief and frustration over a culture that did not prioritize safety or act quickly to investigate failures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges yesterday sentenced Renita Mount Rayner (53, Tampa) to 14 years and 7 months in federal prison for three counts of robbery of a federally insured financial institution and one count of possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence. The court also ordered Rayner to forfeit $8,028, traceable proceeds of the offenses. Rayner pleaded guilty on Feb. 13, 2014.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Vice Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today responded to the FCC’s release of its annual report on the state of broadband in America.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford has returned an indictment charging KIEJUAN HAUGABOOK...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: Today, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee held a full committee Markup of H.R. 4874, the “Search for and Cutting Regulations that are Unnecessarily Burdensome (SCRUB) Act of 2014." Section 101(K) of the bill funds a new Retrospective Regulatory Review Commission by taking $ 25 million or 1%, whichever ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Vice Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today responded to the FCC’s release of its annual report on the state of broadband in America.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: House to Vote Next Week on Legislation to Increase Flow of North American Energy
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: The Department of Health and Human Services is out with a new report today about costs and subsidies in the health care exchanges under the president’s health care law. So how does it compare to other analyses? A recent analysis conducted by Avik Roy in Forbes finds that, “Obamacare increased 2014 individual-market...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Patrick Adebowale Sogbein, his wife, Adebola Adefunke Adebimpe, and Eduardo Abad were sentenced yesterday to prison terms of 144 months, 51 months, and 12 months and 1 day, respectively, for conspiracy to commit health care fraud and health care fraud, announced United States Attorney...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing with General Motors CEO Mary Barra and internal investigator Anton Valukas to examine Valukas’ investigation of the ignition switch recall and compare his report to the committee’s own findings. Members of the subcommittee expressed disbelief and frustration over a culture that did not prioritize safety or act quickly to investigate failures.
