News from May 2014
By US DOT Newswire | May 15, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- In light of the dangerous, fast-moving wildfires that erupted in San Diego County, including in an area near the San Onofre nuclear power plant, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Alcides Marcelino, 48, a native of the Domincan Republic currently living in Rochester, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to selling counterfeit postage stamps. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison, a $250,000 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 15, 2014
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - Dr. Roque Joel Ramirez, 48, of Robstown, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of mail fraud in connection with his scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid through fraudulent billings, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Magidson and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. Ramirez pleaded guilty Feb. 18, 2014.
By EPA Newswire | May 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today released a report regarding its investigation of federal programs that address severe mental illness (SMI). Since January 2013, following the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, and against the backdrop of subsequent mass killings tied to untreated...
By EPA Newswire | May 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today responded to changes to the nuclear waste fee. Effective tomorrow, the fee will be zeroed out to 0.0 mill per kilowatt hour of electricity generated and sold. In November, a federal court ordered the Department...
By Interior Newswire | May 15, 2014
News Release: KING SALMON, Alaska - Effective immediately, Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alagnak Wild River, and Aniakchak National Monument and Preserve are prohibiting the use of all open fires in the park and preserves due to high fire danger. This order will be in effect until the weather and fire conditions...
By DOE Newswire | May 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Lee Terry (R-NE) today put forward draft text of legislation to address illegitimate patent demand letters. The legislation aims to protect businesses from abusive patent assertion entities (PAEs), or patent trolls, while preserving...
By DOL Newswire | May 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) today introduced the Stop Subsidizing Childhood Obesity Act of 2014, legislation that would end the federal tax subsidy for unhealthy...
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today released the following statement on Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)’s announcement on the newly issued staff guidance on economic analysis.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) expressed disappointment following today’s Federal Communications Commission’s vote on Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposed “open Internet" rules.
By Commerce Newswire | May 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Lee Terry (R-NE) today put forward draft text of legislation to address illegitimate patent demand letters. The legislation aims to protect businesses from abusive patent assertion entities (PAEs), or patent trolls, while preserving...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Frank.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - U.S. District Judge R. Allan Edgar sentenced three people for their involvement in distributing two powerful “bath salts" - alpha-pyrrolidinopentiphenone, which is commonly known as alpha-PVP, and pentylone - for human consumption in the Upper Peninsula.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Frank J. McConnell, III, a/k/a “Frank Thompson," 23, of Rangeley, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Bangor to almost four years (46 months) of imprisonment, three years of supervised release and a $500 fine for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The defendant pleaded guilty on Nov. 13, 2013.
By Interior Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: (Richmond, CA) -The National Park Service will unveil new exhibits on Saturday, May 24, 2014, at the Visitor Education Center of Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, CA. The event will be presented in collaboration with the San Francisco Bay Trail, which will be celebrating its 25th anniversary.
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson today presented the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary’s Award for Valor to ten employees who have displayed exceptional courage and valor either while serving the Department, or while off-duty acting only as a concerned citizen willing to help a fellow American in need.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department’s Civil Division announced today that Electrolux Home Products Inc. (Electrolux), of Charlotte, North Carolina, has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $750,000 to settle allegations that it knowingly failed to report immediately to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Jeffrey Wayne Scott, 48, of Wilmington, North Carolina, pleaded guilty to tax evasion in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced today. Scott was indicted on Nov. 25, 2013, for five counts of personal income tax evasion and one count of filing a false corporate tax return. He pleaded guilty to one count of willfully attempting to evade his personal income tax for tax year 2007.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder issued the following statement today on the planned departure of Deputy Director of Public Affairs Gina Talamona, who will begin work as the Communications Director of the Securities and Exchange Commission next month: “For 27 years, Gina Talamona has been a tremendous asset ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON—Speaking in a video message posted on the Justice Department’s website, Attorney General Eric Holder on Wednesday called for an end to the excessive use of solitary confinement for youth that suffer from mental illness. Attorney General Holder said the practices can have lasting, substantial ...
