News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO - Three members of a suburban Northbrook family were arrested and charged with interstate transportation of stolen property following a purported shopping odyssey that started on Feb. 17 in Oklahoma, continued two days later at malls in Texas, and wound through Louisiana on Feb. 20, before they...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Pennsylvania man was sentenced today to 18 months in federal prison for selling oxycodone in Beckley, United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced. David Hudson, 39, previously admitted that in July 2013 he sold several oxycodone pills to a confidential informant working with the Beckley Police Department Drug Unit. The drug deal took place in the parking lot of a motel on Harper Road.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Crescent City, CA - National Parks continue to be important economic engines for local communities, with visitors generating $26.7 billion in economic activity and supporting 243,000 jobs nationwide in 2012, according to a peer-reviewed report released Monday by the National Park Service (NPS). The report...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: - Firearms were secreted inside video game systems for shipment to foreign addresses.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released the following statement on the Administration’s announcement that it will yet again delay ObamaCare’s minimum requirements for health plans.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two former-enlisted Guardsmen at the 171st Air Refueling Wing in Coraopolis, Pa., have been charged with defrauding the United States Air Force and the Air National Guard of hundreds of thousands of dollars in military pay and benefits, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Constance Mier's stunning photographs of birds and other wild parts of Biscayne Bay are featured in the latest show in Biscayne National Park's Dante Fascell Visitor Center Gallery. The show features several dozen images, all taken in Biscayne Bay, and all taken from a canoe, and runs through Sunday...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Earlier today, Laurie Schneider pleaded guilty at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, to wire fraud. The proceeding took place before United States District Judge Dennis R. Hurley. When sentenced, Schneider faces up to 20 years in prison. As part of her plea agreement with the government, Schneider agreed to a $1 million money judgment payable to the United States.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Douglas Point Special Recreation Management Area (SRMA) in Nanjemoy, Maryland, may hold an undiscovered treasure for visitors. The Chiles Homesite, with only its historic chimneys left, invites a little imagination to fuel a wonderfully, true story about the mid-19th...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 938, the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act of 2014 by a vote of 410 to 1. Title II of the bipartisan bill was authored by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: I’m going to be brief this morning and, of course, state first that it’s a tremendous honor to chair this committee and work with all of you. This committee is the go-to place for tackling America’s big domestic challenges, and Senator Hatch and I intend to preserve the committee history of addressing these vital issues in a bipartisan way.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the administration’s decision to again work around Congress to delay and change the president’s health care law. The Department of Health and Human Services today announced that health...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Rex Anyanwu has been sentenced to federal prison for arranging fraudulent marriages that allowed illegal aliens to remain in the U.S, alien harboring, obtaining his own citizenship in violation of the law, and conspiracy to commit visa fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: A Harper Woods man was sentenced to one year and a day in prison today following his conviction for making false statements in connection with filing 54 false tax returns, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 2126, the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act, by a vote of 375 to 36. This bipartisan legislation uses a market-driven and voluntary approach to encourage energy and costs savings.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the administration’s decision to again work around Congress to delay and change the president’s health care law. The Department of Health and Human Services today announced that health...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN, Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, 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 Daniel Evans, also known as "D-Nice," 41, of New Haven, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Ellen Bree Burns in New Haven to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: New Resolution Recognizes Significance of the Smith-Lever Act for Connecting the Public with Land-Grant College Research
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 2126, the Energy Efficiency Improvement Act, by a vote of 375 to 36. This bipartisan legislation uses a market-driven and voluntary approach to encourage energy and costs savings.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Tristram J. Coffin, United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, stated that Aaron Gray, 21, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge William K. Sessions III to one year and one day in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin in Burlington, Vermont.
