News from September 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office today issued a legal opinion demonstrating that the administration lacks a congressional appropriation to use taxpayer dollars to cover insurance company losses in 2015 under the health law’s risk corridor program. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL) requested the report.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of both the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education (the LHHS subcommittee), released the following statement after the Centers...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the confirmed case of Ebola in the United States. The committee has been receiving regular, bipartisan briefings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the last...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington yesterday sentenced Eric Thomas (37, Largo) to eight years and one month in federal prison for accessing with the intent to view child pornography. Thomas was indicted on Sept. 25, 2013. A federal jury found him found guilty on June 12, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Spokane -Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Robert J. Braun, age 55, originally of Spokane, was sentenced today in United States District Court after pleading guilty to five counts of wire fraud and one count of securities fraud. Senior United...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Sept. 29, 2014, Howard Wesley Cotterman, 73, of Truckee, Calif., was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to serve 35 years in prison for child exploitation offenses. Following a trial in June 2014, Cotterman was found guilty of two counts of production of child...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative has encouraged a rich, robust discussion over the past several months, with multiple hearings and roundtables in both Washington and around the country. Next week, the effort will continue with a roundtable in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Energy and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The bipartisan 21st Century Cures initiative has encouraged a rich, robust discussion over the past several months, with multiple hearings and roundtables in both Washington and around the country. Next week, the effort will continue with a roundtable in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Energy and...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Lawrence Young, 54, of Lebanon, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court before Judge D. Brock Hornby to being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Lawrence woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to embezzling more than $750,000 from her employer, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: MCALLEN, Texas - Cassandra Camacho, 25, of Mission; and Juan Ivan Rodriguez, 34, and Nestor Leal-Cedillo, 24, of Reynoso, Mexico, have all been ordered to federal prison for conspiring to export firearms into Mexico, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Leal-Cedillo pleaded guilty June 12, 2014, while Camacho and Rodriguez entered their pleas July 1, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) - the trade association for the firearms industry - have announced a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the theft of firearms from Wide Open Arms, Inc., a federal firearms licensee in Indianapolis, Ind.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced today that developer Douglas Pauley and entities affiliated with him have agreed to pay $110,000 and make approximately $1.7 million in retrofits required to remove accessibility barriers at 30 apartment complexes, involving more than 750 units in West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. A defendant in a bank robbery in Lanagan, Mo., was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today the filing of a criminal information charging Santiago Guerrero-Nova, age 31, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, with distributing heroin on Aug. 28, 2013.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office today issued a legal opinion demonstrating that the administration lacks a congressional appropriation to use taxpayer dollars to cover insurance company losses in 2015 under the health law’s risk corridor program. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Sessions (R-AL) requested the report.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 30, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following statement regarding the confirmed case of Ebola in the United States. The committee has been receiving regular, bipartisan briefings from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the last...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Today the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announced funding awards to seven cities and counties in the Western District of Washington, aimed at creating, and in some cases protecting, 33 law enforcement positions. Nearly $121 million will be awarded nationally, including $6.2 million for Western Washington.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2014
News Release: HOUSTON - Daniel Lee Marshall, 45, of Conroe, has entered a plea of guilty to possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
