News from September 2014
By Interior Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Media Statement: Cannon Breech Failure at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine on September 16.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: An Elyria man faces a likely sentence of 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to distributing heroin and fentanyl, including fentanyl that caused the death of an Elyria resident last year, law enforcement officials said.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report prepared by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) demonstrates that, despite the president’s clear promise, taxpayer dollars are being spent on abortion plans under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Just over five years ago, President Obama...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - A Hopkinton man, and former owner of Boston Trading and Research, was sentenced this afternoon to nine years in prison after pleading guilty to charges that he and his business partner defrauded more than 700 investors out of more than $30 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Marc England, 44, pled guilty today to a federal charge stemming from his theft of over $960,000 from a Washington, D.C. law firm, announced U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. and Andrew G. McCabe, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - U.S. District Court Judge Robert E. Jones sentenced Laura Lambden, 60, of Vancouver, Washington, to 48 months in federal prison, for transporting a young girl from Vancouver, Washington, to Oregon City, Oregon, for the purpose of prostitution. At the sentencing hearing on Monday, September 15th, Judge Jones further ordered defendant to serve a five-year term of supervised release at the time of her release from federal prison.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Today, U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding an updated Government Accountability Office (GAO) report that shows a higher number of coal fired power plants will be closing and fewer will be retrofitted than the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) predicted. The report suggests the closures are due to EPA's regulations, such as the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: Yvener Jean-Baptiste Admits To Using Counterfeit Credit Cards To Purchase More Than.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This week the House will continue its work to create jobs and reduce costs for consumers by voting on the American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act. Sponsored by Rep. Lee Terry (R-NE), this comprehensive energy legislation includes a number of bills previously...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - A Houston man was sentenced last week to 154 months in prison for robbing from a Roanoke drug trafficker, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Sept. 15, 2014, Victor Stitt, 32, of Manchester, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 290 months in prison by the Honorable Harry S. Mattice Jr., U.S. District Judge. The sentence was the result of a conviction after a jury trial in April 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Luis Abril, 31, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine and 100 grams or more of heroin...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement on the need to renew expired tax provisions to give certainty and relief to American workers and businesses...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-The Democratic members of the House of Representatives Labor-Health and Human Services (HHS)-Education Appropriations Subcommittee today unveiled their Fiscal Year 2015 spending bill. For the second consecutive year, Republicans who control the committee refused to even bring a bill before the subcommittee for a vote, the only appropriations bill to have that distinction.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Conservation Innovation Grants to help improve technologies and approaches for natural resource conservation Audio MOLINE, Ill., Sept. 15, 2014 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today the award of $15.7 million in Conservation Innovation Grants (CIGs) to 47 organizations that will help develop and demonstrate cutting-edge ideas to accelerate innovation in private lands conservation. The Secretary made the announcement while visiting a farm in Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that the Justice Department will launch a new series of pilot programs in cities across the country to bring together community representatives, public safety officials and religious leaders to counter violent extremism. The new programs will be run in partnership with the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and the National Counterterrorism Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department announced Monday that Attorney General Eric Holder has recorded a video message as part of the Cartoon Network’s “I Speak Up” campaign to combat bullying. The project urges young people to speak up in order to help bring bullying situations to an end.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: A dual United States-Costa Rican citizen pleaded guilty today for his role in a $1.88 million sweepstakes fraud scheme that defrauded hundreds of elderly Americans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: A federal court has permanently barred Sea Nine Associates Inc. from promoting and selling an alleged nationwide tax scheme that involved using welfare benefit plans to unlawfully increase and accelerate tax deductions and avoid income taxes, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Episcopal Ministries to the Aging Inc. (EMA), a Maryland not-for-profit corporation that owns skilled nursing facilities, has agreed to pay $1.3 million to the government for submitting false claims to Medicare for unreasonable or unnecessary rehabilitation therapy purportedly provided by RehabCare Group ...
