News from December 2013
By DOE Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today examined how the president’s health care law will impact the Medicare Advantage program and what beneficiaries should expect in the coming year. The health care law raided $700 billion from Medicare, ...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today examined how the president’s health care law will impact the Medicare Advantage program and what beneficiaries should expect in the coming year. The health care law raided $700 billion from Medicare, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, N.J., woman was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for trying to hire a hitman to kill a romantic rival by shooting her in the head, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a resolution has been reached involving charges against two Massachusetts men charged with invading a private conversation between two NFL general managers.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: OXFORD, Miss. - Felicia C. Adams, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, announced that.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., December 4, 2013 - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) today announced that newly-elected Representative Vance McAllister (LA-05) will join the Natural Resources Committee. In addition, Rep. Mark Amodei (NV-02) and Rep. Chris Stewart (UT-02) will both be departing the Natural Resources Committee to join the House Committee on Appropriations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A North Hills man pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: U.S. Sen. David Vitter (R-La.), top Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, made the following statement regarding the semiannual Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (Unified Agenda), which was released on Nov. 26, 2013. The Fall 2013 Agenda lays out 134 ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: Three patient recruiters for a Miami health care company pleaded guilty yesterday for their participation in a $48 million home health Medicare fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: In Waco this afternoon, 31-year-old Bryce Ashley Reed of West, TX, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $2,000 fine for conspiracy to make an unregistered destructive device and attempting to obstruct justice announced United States Attorney Robert Pitman and ATF Special Agent in Charge Robert W. Elder, Houston Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), today examined how the president’s health care law will impact the Medicare Advantage program and what beneficiaries should expect in the coming year. The health care law raided $700 billion from Medicare, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: BROWNSVILLE, Texas - In Brownsville last night, United States District Judge Andrew Hanen sentenced 51-year-old Austin attorney Marc Garrett Rosenthal to 20 years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered him to pay $13,288,984.00 restitution for his role in a South...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: Spokane - Today, Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that United States District Court Judge Thomas O. Rice sentenced Valentin Cardenas Gonzales, age 75, formerly of Ford, Washington, to a 30 year term of imprisonment and a life term of court supervision...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-U.S. Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement in response to President Obama’s speech addressing income inequality and the need to raise the minimum wage.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Wednesday, December 4, 2013. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANK METE, 55, of Berlin, waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: Sent the IRS more than $3.6 million in bogus payments.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: WASHINGTON - Carlos Joel Alonso, 24, of Maryland was presented before a Judge at the District of Columbia Superior Court yesterday on a complaint charging that he left the scene of a crash prior to the arrival responding emergency personnel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Export, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of misappropriation of postal funds, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 4, 2013
News Release: Steady recovery of bald eagles is evident with breeding occurring on four of the eight California Channel Islands and over 40 resident birds. This year another milestone was reached with the first natural hatching of a second generation bald eagle chick on Santa Cruz Island.
