News from May 2014
By DOE Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 3301, the North American Energy Infrastructure Act, by a bipartisan vote of 31 to 19. Authored by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Gene Green (D-TX), the legislation would modernize and reform the approval...
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved the Strengthening Education through Research Act (H.R. 4366) with bipartisan support. Introduced by Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) and Ranking Member Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY), the bill reauthorizes the Education Sciences Reform Act and makes it easier for states and school districts to access timely information on successful education practices.
By State Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today made the following remarks in the House of Representatives about the proposal to establish a select committee to investigate the September 2012 terrorist attacks on the American diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya...
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) released the following statement in reaction to the news that Alan Mulally, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, will be retiring from the company July 1, 2014.
By EPA Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 4342, the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act, to require the Obama administration to pause on any changes regarding the future of the Internet and allow for an independent evaluation. The legislation, authored...
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement after the Senate confirmed Ted Mitchell to serve as the U.S. Under Secretary of Education. The HELP Committee approved Mitchell’s nomination in January 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Latrese Brantley (40, Tampa) pleaded guilty yesterday to assaulting a federal agent. Brantley faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Rhode Island One Of 30 States In DEA Led National Crackdown Of Alleged Synthetic Drug Makers, Wholesalers, Retailers.
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA), Chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Senator David Vitter (R-LA), EPW Committee Ranking Member, and Rep. Nick Rahall (D-WV), Transportation ...
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: CALABASAS, Calif. - An impressive variety of Oaxacan wood carvings, Mata Ortiz pottery and Zapotec rugs will be featured in the Latin American Art Show & Sale at the Santa Monica Mountains Visitor Center on Memorial Day weekend. The traveling event will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Saturday, May 24 through Monday, May 26.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: CHARLESTON, W. Va. -- Mark Johnson, Jr., 23, pleaded guilty today in federal court to being a felon in possession of a firearm in Charleston, WV, where he resides. In November 2013, Johnson was involved in an altercation outside the Town Center Mall and he brandished a firearm during that altercation. Johnson has two prior felony convictions - both involving firearms. Johnson faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment when he is sentenced on Aug. 20, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: An indictment was filed charging Salvador Soto-Gomez, age 63, of Mexico, with with unlawful reentry into the United States on April 2, 2014, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A dermatologist with a medical practice in East Brunswick, N.J., was charged today for allegedly structuring nearly $850,000 by intentionally purchasing numerous money orders for amounts below what would trigger a financial institution’s IRS reporting requirements, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Janet DiFiore, the Westchester County District Attorney, Scott W. Brown, Tarrytown Police Chief on behalf of the Greenburgh Drug and Alcohol Task Force, and George Venizelos, Assistant Director-In-Charge of the New York...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on May 8, 2014, Michael David Peak (age: 40) and Shawn Allen Klatt (age: 33) both of Marinette were sentenced to 24 months and 36 months respectively by Chief United States District Judge William C. Griesbach. Each had previously entered a guilty plea to a charge of using a communication facility (i.e., a telephone) to facilitate the distribution of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell today sentenced Fane Dacosta (40, Daytona Beach) to 2 years and 4 months in federal prison for aiding in the preparation of false tax returns and failing to file his own tax returns. Dacosta was also ordered to serve one year of supervision, following his incarceration, and to pay $656,084 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service. Dacosta was convicted by a federal jury on Jan. 30, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that PETER STRAIN, a talent agent for film, television, and Broadway actors, was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to three years’ probation, six months’ home confinement, and 500 hours of community service...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Central Valley and Northern California citizens showed their support for the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA’s) National Prescription Drug Take Back Day program by dropping off more prescription pills than ever during the April 26, 2014 event. Federal, state, and local law enforcement partners collected more than 40,854 - (20 - tons) of unwanted prescription medications from 207 - collections sites.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Aldo Jones, 31, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Thoreau, N.M., was sentenced this afternoon to 70 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on two assault charges. Jones also was ordered to pay $47,574.91 to the Indian Health Services to cover the costs of medical care for the victims and $80.00 to one of the two victims.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today approved H.R. 4342, the Domain Openness Through Continued Oversight Matters Act, to require the Obama administration to pause on any changes regarding the future of the Internet and allow for an independent evaluation. The legislation, authored...
