News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: Falsified Documents And Stole From Customer Credit Accounts.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) has scheduled a markup next week to consider draft legislation to reauthorize the Satellite Television Extension and Localism Act. The subcommittee will convene for opening statements only on Monday, March 24, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The subcommittee will reconvene in the same room on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, at xx:xx a.m. to vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Allentown, Pa., man previously charged with sex trafficking of a minor was indicted today on additional charges of conspiracy to use an interstate facility in aid of prostitution business, transportation of a minor to engage in prostitution, coercion and enticement to engage in prostitution, and obstruction, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: A unique living history reenactment at Valley Forge Valley Forge, PA - The public is invited to spend a weekend with the Fourth Connecticut Regiment at Valley Forge National Historical Park. From dawn until dusk on Saturday March 29 and Sunday March 30, visitors canexperience a snapshot of life during...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, March 26, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Where Have All the Patients Gone? Examining the Psychiatric Bed Shortage." Witnesses to be announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal grand jury in Providence on Wednesday returned a five-count indictment charging Alfredo Balestier-Sanchez, aka Negro, 32, of Woonsocket, with trafficking heroin, fentanyl, morphine and codeine, announced John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New England field division, United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha and Woonsocket Police Chief Thomas S. Carey.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, March 26, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Where Have All the Patients Gone? Examining the Psychiatric Bed Shortage." Witnesses to be announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Utah Group is pleased to announce Serena Supplee as the 2104 Community Artist in the Parks (CAIP).
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: The continuation of winter weather, above-average snowpack, frozen ground and thick ice coverage on streams and rivers will delay spring flooding into April in the upper Midwest eastward to New England. The intensity of the flooding will depend on the rate of snow and ice melt, and future rainfall.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) Southeast Utah Group is pleased to announce Serena Supplee as the 2104 Community Artist in the Parks (CAIP).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today. Christopher Swann, 23, admitted at today’s plea hearing that he and others traveled back and forth from Charleston, West Virginia, to Ohio to purchase heroin for resale...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jamie Figueroa, 22, of Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 46 months of imprisonment to be followed by three years of supervised release for possession of a firearm by a felon. Figueroa pled guilty to the charge on Nov. 26, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Wifredo Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, David Pharo, Resident Agent in Charge, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, and Major Alfredo Escanio, Commander of South Region Bravo, Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, announced that Jose E. Souto, 71, of Coral Gables...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Calvin L. Scovel III, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Acting Administrator ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: LSB Industries Inc. (LSB), the largest merchant manufacturer of concentrated nitric acid in North America, and four of its subsidiaries have agreed to reduce harmful emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) by meeting emission limits that are among the lowest for the industry in the nation at plants in Alabama, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Tonawanda Coke Corporation was sentenced in federal court in Buffalo, N.Y., Wednesday to pay a $12.5 million penalty and $12.2 million in community service payments for criminal violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the Justice Department and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced. Tonawanda was convicted by a federal jury in March 2013 on 11 counts of violating the CAA and three counts of violating the RCRA.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Kristopher Michael Montemayor, a county commissioner for Precinct 1 of the Webb County Commissioners Court in Texas, was arrested today on charges of bribery, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Marubeni Corporation, a Japanese trading company involved in the handling of products and provision of services in a broad range of sectors around the world, including power generation, entered a plea of guilty today for its participation in a scheme to pay bribes to high-ranking government officials in Indonesia to secure a lucrative power project.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January indicates that growth in economic activity slowed during the winter months, in part reflecting adverse weather conditions. Labor market indicators were mixed but on balance showed further improvement. The unemployment rate, however, ...
By Fed Newswire | Mar 19, 2014
News Release: The attached table and charts released on Wednesday summarize the economic projections and the target federal funds rate projections made by Federal Reserve Board members and Federal Reserve Bank presidents for the March 18-19 meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.
