News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Gary Anthony Harris, 50, of Carle Place, N.Y., pleaded guilty late yesterday afternoon in Las Cruces federal court to a marijuana trafficking charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that BRIAN VANACORE, 48, of North Branford, GREG BODYTKO, 54, of Northford, and their business, BMG LLC, pleaded guilty today in Bridgeport federal court to violating federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on March 3, 2014, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Opening Statement. (Remarks as Prepared). This is the second event, and first hearing, of the Panel on Public-Private Partnerships, or ‘P3s’. We are investigating how P3s can accelerate the delivery of projects across all modes of infrastructure. Today’s hearing will focus on how P3s can accelerate the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - A Bowling Green, Kentucky, man pled guilty in United States District Court today, to a four-count federal Indictment charging him with exporting firearms from the United States announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Ohio. Wednesday, March 5, 2014. CONTACT: Fred Alverson. Public Affairs Officer. DAYTON - A federal grand jury has indicted Michael Hay, 30, of Columbus alleging that he robbed seven banks in central and southwestern Ohio between December...
By EPA 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 DOL Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Higher Education and Workforce Training Subcommittee Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statements after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report documenting the need to improve data reporting and outcomes within the federal workforce development system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today the appointments of Brendan McGuire as Co-Chief of the Terrorism & International Narcotics Unit and Arlo Devlin-Brown as Chief of the Public Corruption Unit.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: White Hall and Selma, AL - In support of the Bridge Crossing Re-enactment and Jubilee, the Lowndes and Selma Interpretive Centers will open on Sunday, March 9, 2014 from 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Both centers feature the film “Never Lose Sight of Freedom" and exhibits that illustrate the Voting Rights Movement and subsequent 54-mile Selma to Montgomery March of 1965.
By EPA 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 Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: New York, NY- A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that in 2012 12,073,658 visitors to national parks around New York Harbor spent $394,399,300 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 4,395 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - RAYMOND T. DRAKE, age 53, of Albany, New York, pled guilty today in Albany before Chief United States District Judge Gary L. Sharpe to two counts of distribution of child pornography, one count of receipt of child pornography, and three counts of possession of child pornography, announced...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and William P. Offord, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, announced that ROBERT JOSEPH...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, led a group of Senators in a Dear Colleague letter, regarding the nomination of Kenneth Kopocis to be the Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Water. The letter states the Senators' concern surrounding Kopocis' involvement in EPA's attempt to significantly expand its authority under the CWA.
By DOE 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 DOE Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: The Energy Department today announced a $10 million funding opportunity to help demonstrate and deploy energy efficiency technologies for commercial buildings, including projects that will bring next generation building systems and components to a broader market faster - helping to save building owners and businesses money by saving energy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Crews from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in cooperation with the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT), have begun clearing and trimming brush and trees from along portions of Interstate 8 east of Gila Bend.The operation, called Project Daylight, is intended to take away cover used by human...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2014
News Release: Dublin, GA - LORETTA SMITH, 41, of Glenwood, Georgia, pled guilty last week before Senior District Court Judge Dudley H. Bowen to defrauding the U. S. Department of Veterans Affairs (“VA") through fraudulent worker’s compensation claims.
By EPA 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.
