News from April 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Charenton man was sentenced to 12 months in prison for assaulting a Chitimacha tribal woman.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A 31-year-old woman, who stole nearly $65,000 from several federal programs, and in some instances, stole others’ identities to commit the thefts, was sentenced today, announced Acting U.S. Attorney John R. Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Jefferson Area Victim Assistance Coalition to Host Community Day at Ntelos Wireless Pavilion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that CHARLES DAVID ROHRER age 37 and NATAYA SHAWN SIZEMORE, age 42, both of Gainesville, Texas, were sentenced in federal court on April 13, 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement on the proposed rule issued today by the Department of Labor to prohibit retirement financial advisors from giving conflicted advice to American workers...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Recently, Fort Stanwix National Monument received a generous donation from Mr. Orville Carroll. Carroll dedicated 30 years of his life's work to the National Park Service as a Historic Architect. During his years with the National Park Service, he accumulated items from his unique experiences. In April, Carroll donated a large collection of his photographs, research papers, and even the plane table he used to make drawings in the field.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 63-year-old Dallas County, Texas, physician, has been sentenced to federal prison for health care fraud and identity theft violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge Anna J. Brown sentenced Lloyd Benton Sharp, aka Kevin Thomas, age 79, of Clackamas, Oregon, to 60 months in prison for conspiracy to defraud investors in biodiesel projects in Ghana, West Africa, and Chile. Judge Brown also sentenced Sharp to serve three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $6,021,482 in restitution.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today wrote to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz regarding the president’s recent determination that a separate repository is required for the disposal of high-level defense waste.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement after the Senate approved H.R. 2, the Medicare access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. The House overwhelmingly approved of this bill in March by a vote of 392-37.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GIOVANNI MASUCCI, also known as John Masucci, 44, of Woodbridge, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in Bridgeport to 51 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for stealing more than $1 million from a Connecticut company.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Investigators clear Hot Springs of possible stashed explosives.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement after the Senate approved H.R. 2, the Medicare access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. The House overwhelmingly approved of this bill in March by a vote of 392-37.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Power Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing to examine a draft of the Ratepayer Protection Act. The draft legislation seeks to empower states to protect families and businesses from higher electricity rates and other harmful effects of...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: HOMESTEAD, FLORIDA - On Saturday, April 18th, the start of National Park Week, the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA) will kick off its Find Your Voice initiative. Through hands-on service projects, recreational activities and civic engagement opportunities, NPCA is working to inspire the next generation of park advocates to speak up for America's favorite places-an especially timely goal as the centennial of the creation of the National Park System approaches.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - FAISAL Q. MORSHED, 35, of Verplanck, New York, and IBRAHIM Q. MURSHED, 25, of Hudson, New York, were sentenced yesterday for conspiring to commit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ("SNAP") fraud, and SNAP fraud, by Senior United States District Judge Thomas J. McAvoy, announced...
By State Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following the Senate Foreign Relations Committee passage of the “Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015"...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today made a profound step toward reforming the decades-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) by reviewing a draft of the bipartisan TSCA Modernization Act. Building upon work that began last Congress, ...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held the hearing, "Reducing Unnecessary Duplication in Federal Programs: Billions More Could Be Saved." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del), as prepared for delivery...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 14, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement after the Senate approved H.R. 2, the Medicare access and CHIP Reauthorization Act. The House overwhelmingly approved of this bill in March by a vote of 392-37.
