News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Keith Brown and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Polite announced that Torrie Brumfield, a resident of Amite, Louisiana, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to serve 16 years in prison for his role in a large-scale drug conspiracy.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 18, 2014 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee approved with bipartisan support three bills to address the nation’s critical need for new and expanded surface water storage projects. H.R. 3980, the Water Supply Permit Coordinating Act, H.R. 3981, the Accelerated Revenue...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Teruko Miller, 29, of Beckley, West Virginia was sentenced today to one year in federal prison for distribution of heroin. Miller previously pled guilty in June of 2014, to selling heroin to a person who was cooperating with law enforcement authorities. The drug deal took place on Stanaford Road in Beckley, West Virginia.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Exporter Admits Responsibility And Agrees To Pay $3.5 Million To U.S.; Suit Against Turkish Business Agent Who Brokered The Fraudulent Transaction Goes Forward.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Sept. 18, 2014 14-076. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Sustainable Energy Project For Yellowstone’s Buffalo...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 18, 2014 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 4, the Jobs for America Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, on the eve of Labor Day weekend, the House Ways and Means Committee released a report on the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program, which expired in December 2013, and its impact on job growth. The report finds that job growth weakened while EUC paid out record levels of benefits, but has strengthened since EUC expired. This year marks the first Labor Day since 2007 that the federal government is not operating the EUC program.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued a report outlining the major outstanding issues within the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations and called for the establishment of an intensive bipartisan consultative process with Congress to determine how to address...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Sept. 17, 2014, after three days of jury trial, U.S. Magistrate Judge Camille Velez-Rivé dismissed the civil claims filed by Plaintiff Carlos Hernandez-Cuevas alleging false arrest and malicious prosecution against FBI Special Agents William Taylor and Steven Martz, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a single-count indictment today against Mexican national Cresencio Ochoa-Tovali, 46, charging him with assaulting a federal correctional officer, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today led the committee’s approval of Carolyn Watts Colvin to be the commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Colvin’s nomination was approved by a 22-2 vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Republican leaders of the House and Senate Committees of jurisdiction today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Marilyn Tavenner regarding the ongoing challenges states are facing while implementing the health law’s changes to Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Attorney General Eric Holder announced today the launch of the Justice Department’s National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice. Members of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee (AGAC)’s Racial Disparities working group joined the Attorney General for the announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: HONOLULU - On Sept. 18, 2014, Dona Takushi, age 54, a former Oahu Transit Services Employees Federal Credit Union (OTSEFCU) employee and manager, was sentenced on one felony count of embezzlement and misapplication of funds and two felony counts of false entries into the books of the OTSEFCU in a...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: The House Majority Leader today announced that the House is no longer scheduled to be in session tomorrow. However, the Health Subcommittee’s hearing scheduled for tomorrow, Sept. 19, 2014, entitled “21st Century Cures: Examining Ways to Combat Antibiotic Resistance and Foster New Drug Development" will proceed as scheduled. The hearing will be held at 9 AM in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: National Park Service. U.S. Department of the Interior. Yellowstone National Park. P.O. Box 168. Yellowstone National Park, WY 82190. Sept. 18, 2014 14-075. Al Nash. (307) 344-2015. YELL_Public_Affairs@nps.gov. YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK NEWS RELEASE. Yellowstone Continues Cutthroat Trout Restoration in...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 26-year-old Port Arthur, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Joshua Buerman, 26, of Williamson, NY, pleaded to conspiracy to import and distribute significant quantities of Methylone, a Schedule I controlled substance, from a source of supply located in China before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a fine of $1,000,000.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 18, 2014 - Today, House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement following passage of H.R. 4, the Jobs for America Act, by a bipartisan vote of 253-163. This legislation included H.R. 1526, the Restoring Heathy Forests for...
By USDA Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, Chairwoman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture will be investing $68 million in 540 renewable energy and energy efficient projects across the country, helping to spur domestic energy ...
