News from September 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: COLUMBUS - Cynthia S. Mild, 41, of Lewis Center, Ohio pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court today to one count of making false statements relative to down payment information entered on a Department of Housing and Urban Development Form HUD-1. Mild faces a maximum of 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Farrell, Pa., was sentenced yesterday in federal court after pleading guilty to a charge of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to drug trafficking, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: DENALI PARK, Alaska: The busy summer season has ended at Denali National Park and Preserve, and visitors can now drive private vehicles on the Denali Park Road as far as the Teklanika Rest Area at Mile 30, conditions permitting.As the weather can change rapidly at this time of the year, visitors are.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Sept. 10, 2014, Kyle Cameron Messerle, age 24, formerly of Iowa City, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge James E. Gritzner to 60 months imprisonment for distribution of heroin, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Messerle was also ordered to serve three years of supervised release following the imprisonment and to pay $100 towards the Crime Victims Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Maraintoinette Lynn Yazzie, 26, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Lukachukai, Ariz., pleaded guilty this morning to an assault with a dangerous weapon charge under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Today, the House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 5233, the Trade Secrets Protection Act by voice vote.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing on energy taxation...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A two-count misdemeanor information filed in federal court Wednesday morning in Salt Lake City charges five individuals in connection with an unlawful ATV ride in Recapture Canyon on May 10, 2014. The information alleges one count of conspiracy to operate off-road vehicles on public lands closed to off-road vehicles and one count of operation of off-road vehicles on public lands closed to off-road vehicles.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee adopted bipartisan inspector general reform legislation introduced by Chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA), Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD) and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC). The Committee approved H.R. 5492, Inspector General Empowerment Act of...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) and Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Subcommittee Chairman Phil Roe have asked National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Richard Griffin to provide documents and information concerning his effort to rewrite the joint-employer standard under the National Labor Relations Act.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: As part of the Obama Administration’s efforts to reduce energy waste in U.S. buildings and help save Americans money by saving energy, the Energy Department today announced the winners of the sixth annual Next Generation LuminairesTM (NGL) design competition for indoor lighting at the LED Show in Los Angeles.
By State Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing TOMORROW to question Secretary of State John Kerry about the President’s recently announced strategy on ISIS.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Tucson, AZ - The Red Hills Visitor Center and all interior roads in the Tucson Mountain District (TMD-west) of Saguaro National Park have been closed ahead of the predicted flooding due to the remnants of Tropical Storm Odile.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., at an event today applauded the recently launched WTO Environmental Goods Agreement negotiations that would reduce tariffs on environmental goods. The event, organized by the Coalition for Green Trade, featured a host of American businesses whose products would benefit from the agreement.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Today, Reps. Darrell E. Issa and Elijah E. Cummings, the Chairman and Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform respectively, issued the following statement after the National Football League (NFL) and the National Football League Players Association announced an agreement to amend the NFL’s performance-enhancing drug (PED) policy to include testing of NFL players for human growth hormone (HGH) beginning during the 2014 NFL season...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement today following the objection of a Republican Senator to proceed to a vote and ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CPRD) - a treaty that builds upon the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for the sexual exploitation of a minor. Ezra Robert Gramm, 40, of Springfield, was sentenced by U.S. Chief...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Plattsburgh man indicted on 13 counts related to production, distribution, and possession of.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, announced that a 30-year old Harrisburg man pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William C. Caldwell to tax evasion in the amount of $216,000 between October 2006 and May 2011.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 17, 2014
News Release: Last night, the U.S. House of Representatives approved five bills on a voice vote that respond to the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) targeting of conservative organizations and other abuses of taxpayers at the IRS. Two of the bills were authored by Oversight and Government Reform Committee members, ...
