News from September 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) today announced that Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner must testify at the Oversight Committee on September 18th, 2014. This comes as news reports reveal that a hacker has breached the Healthcare.gov insurance website.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that David A. Parker, age 53, of the Burlington area, was sentenced today to 63 months in jail by Chief Judge Christina Reiss in United States District Court in Burlington.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (R-PA) issued the following statement in response to reports that HealthCare.gov was successfully hacked. Pitts authored H.R. 3811, the Health Exchange Security and Transparency Act, which was approved by the House with a veto-proof majority in January. The White House threatened to veto this bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Elbert.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Ladarius Lebron Blunt, 27, of Chattanooga, Tenn., and Jeremy Jermaine Whatley, 29, also of Chattanooga, Tenn., were sentenced on Sept. 3, 2014, by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 188 months and 60 months, respectively, in federal prison. Both Blunt and Whatley were previously convicted of conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine.
By State Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that on Tuesday, September 16 at 2pm, the Committee will convene a hearing at which Secretary of State John Kerry will testify about whether or not the Obama Administration has yet developed a strategy for combatting the terrorist group ISIS.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that CHEON PARK was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 24 months in prison and over $2 million in forfeiture and restitution for defrauding the New York State Education Department (“NYSED") and the New...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, Sept. 11, 2014, at 9:15 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will review legislation authored by Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC) to improve the training of health providers to better identify victims of human trafficking.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: Today U.S. Environment and Public Works Committee Republicans released a report entitled, "Critical Thinking on Climate Change: Empirical Evidence to Consider Before Taking Regulatory Action and Implementing Economic Policies."
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Aris Aristidis Vavasis pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to Felony Distribution of Unapproved New Drugs and Felony Distribution of Misbranded Drugs, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Jay Fitzpatrick, and U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Sept. 3, 2014, James Robert Morton, 46, of Rockford, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 88 months in prison by the Honorable Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge. Morton pleaded guilty in August 2013 to federal charges of knowingly distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was convicted by a federal trial jury today of his role in a conspiracy to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A second sales manager at Serra Nissan faces federal charges in connection with a conspiracy at the Birmingham car dealership to fraudulently boost loan approvals and car sales, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard D. Schwein Jr. and IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 4, 2014
News Release: On Friday, August 15th, Kenai Fjords National Park staff received numerous reports that water from Bear Glacier Lagoon had breached the moraine separating the lagoon from the mouth of Resurrection Bay, also referred to as the Harding Gateway. Subsequent reports indicated that water levels peaked in the...
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 3, 2014
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Robert F. Fraser, age 26, Teandre L. Altman, age 21, and Frank A. Rogers, age 19, all of Pensacola, were taken into federal custody based upon a criminal complaint alleging federal firearm law violations, announced United States Attorney Pamela C. Marsh, Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced ANTHONY WAYNE WIGGINS, 51, of Middlesex to life imprisonment, followed by 10 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: Costco Wholesale Corporation, one of the nation’s largest retailers, has agreed to cut its emissions of ozone-depleting and greenhouse gases from leaking refrigeration equipment at more than half of its stores nationwide.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice has seized approximately $500,000 in assets traceable to corruption proceeds accumulated by Chun Doo Hwan, the former president of the Republic of Korea. This seizure brings the total value of seized corruption proceeds of President Chun to more than $1.2 million. Assistant ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 3, 2014
News Release: A Southfield, Michigan, resident was sentenced today to serve 21 months in prison to be followed by two years of supervised release for his participation in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud, the Justice Department announced.
