News from September 2014
By DOE Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 8, 2014. The committee will advance the #Path2Cures effort with a Health Subcommittee hearing Tuesday and roundtable Wednesday, continue its oversight of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, and review legislation to improve care for victims of human trafficking.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing schedule for the week of September 8, 2014. The committee will advance the #Path2Cures effort with a Health Subcommittee hearing Tuesday and roundtable Wednesday, continue its oversight of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, and review legislation to improve care for victims of human trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: ATLANTA - Antonio T. Hurt has been sentenced to two years and one month in federal prison for stealing nearly $2 million from a federal program that partially reimburses daycare centers for the cost of meals for needy children.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Joshua Vandyk, an investment advisor, was sentenced today to serve 30 months in prison for conspiring to launder monetary instruments, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
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By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2014
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Erick Estrada Reyes, 31, of Guatemala, was sentenced today to 11 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to import several thousand pseudoephedrine pills into the United States for the production of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that KRISTEN RENEA BROWN, age 19, of Madill, Oklahoma, pled guilty to an Information charging her with WIRE FRAUD, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Federal indictments were returned Wednesday charging that 16 people who worked for Keebler Company in Kansas City, Kan., fraudulently received unemployment benefits, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Sept. 4, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA has closed on a loan guarantee to Fulcrum Sierra Biofuels, LLC to build a biorefinery to produce jet fuel from municipal solid waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today in federal court United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced TIMOTHY JACK STRICKLAND to 151 months imprisonment followed by 5 years supervised release.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The National Park Service is proposing a permanent federal prohibition on three historically illegal predator hunting practices in Alaska's national preserves.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in leading a conspiracy to distribute PCP.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: $105 Million loan guarantee provided through the Biorefinery Assistance Program LAS VEGAS, Sept. 4, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA has closed on a loan guarantee to Fulcrum Sierra Biofuels, LLC to build a biorefinery to produce jet fuel from municipal solid waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: A Canton, Massachusetts, man was arrested today at Boston's Logan International Airport in connection with the ongoing criminal investigation of New England Compounding Center (NECC) by the Justice Department’s Civil Division and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: A New Jersey man pleaded guilty today to orchestrating an eight-year scheme to falsify employment certifications to facilitate the illegal entry of Indian immigrants into the United States and to filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that the Justice Department has launched two initiatives to address concerns about police services in the city of Ferguson and in St. Louis County, Missouri. First, in addition to the ongoing criminal civil rights investigation, the Civil Rights Division has ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: A federal jury returned guilty verdicts today against former Virginia Governor Robert F. McDonnell and former First Lady of Virginia Maureen G. McDonnell for participating in a scheme to violate federal public corruption laws.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: Guaranty Development Company, Livingston, Montana, and American Bank, Bozeman, Montana Written Agreement issued Aug. 3, 2010 Terminated Sept. 2, 2014 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: As part of the continuing program of operational testing of its policy tools, the Federal Reserve plans to conduct a series of eight consecutive seven-day term deposit operations through its Term Deposit Facility (TDF) beginning in October. Term deposits in this series will incorporate an early withdrawal ...
By Commerce News Now | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker issued the following statement today on the release of the July 2014 U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services data. U.S. exports of goods and services increased to $198.0 billion from $196.2 billion in June, with record levels in automotive vehicles, parts, and engines, as well as services exports.
