News from January 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released a memo with information from both Committees’ investigations of the security of...
By DOL Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.- Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today welcomed the announcement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that under provisions he authored in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), women will be able to gain access to medications that will reduce the risk of breast cancer at no cost.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), announced that Defendant Rosalina M.T. Gabutin, age 45, was sentenced on January 6, 2014, in the District Court of Guam to serve 48 months in federal prison followed by five years...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health today held a hearing, “The Extenders Policies: What Are They and How Should They Continue Under a Permanent SGR Repeal Landscape?"
By EPA Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General underscores the reality of security concerns surrounding the health law’s exchanges. Marketwatch reports, “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aren’t taking enough precautions to ferret out fraud in electronic...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today approved H.R. 2279 by a vote of 225 to 188. The legislation is a product of a series of bills advanced by the Energy and Commerce Committee, including the Reducing Excessive Deadline Obligations Act, the Federal and State Partnership for Environmental...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General underscores the reality of security concerns surrounding the health law’s exchanges. Marketwatch reports, “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aren’t taking enough precautions to ferret out fraud in electronic...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that U.S. District Judge James Brady sentenced ERICK BANKS, age 32, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to 108 months imprisonment for conspiring to traffic a child in the commercial sex trade. BANKS was also sentenced to five years supervised release after imprisonment and ordered to pay the victim $1,200 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Hansel Bailey, 36, of Orange County, California, to five years in prison for conspiracy to defraud the United States in the collection of taxes, and conspiracy to evade and defeat tax due and owing the Virgin Islands, announced United...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - A new report from the Health and Human Services Inspector General underscores the reality of security concerns surrounding the health law’s exchanges. Marketwatch reports, “The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aren’t taking enough precautions to ferret out fraud in electronic...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2014
News Release: MONTANA UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE COLLECTS $28.3 MILLION IN CIVIL & CRIMINAL ACTIONS FOR U.S. TAXPAYERS IN FISCAL YEAR 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Dana Moody, 57, of New Boston, was sentenced in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to 72 months in prison after pleading guilty to possession and distribution of child pornography, announced United States Attorney John P. Kacavas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: DENVER - Big Sandy Oil Company, solely owned by James E. Cochran, has agreed to pay the United States $73,500, plus interest, to settle allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly failing to pay oil revenues Big Sandy owed to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Tyrell Elliot Frank, 27, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., was sentenced today to 41 months in federal prison to be followed by two years of supervised release for his assault conviction.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON— Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson today met with House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul, and separately with Ranking Member Bennie Thompson to underscore the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) important collaboration with Congress on a wide range of homeland security priorities including immigration reform, border security and cybersecurity.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Secretary Tom Vilsack to Moderate Two Panels on the Future of Agriculture WASHINGTON, Jan. 8, 2014–The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced speakers for the 2014 Agricultural Outlook Forum, "The Changing Face of Agriculture," to be held from Feb. 20-21 at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel, Arlington, Va.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice (DOJ), in collaboration with the Department of Education (ED), today released a school discipline guidance package that will assist states, districts and schools in developing practices and strategies to enhance school climate, and ensure those policies and practices comply ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: Christopher W. Loncarich, 55, of Mack, Colo., and Nicholaus J. Rodgers, 30, of Medford, Ore., were charged yesterday in the District of Colorado with conspiracy to violate the Lacey Act, interstate felony transportation and sale of unlawfully taken wildlife, and felony creation of false records concerning ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: A Florida man was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison, and his wife was sentenced to 24 months of probation, for their roles in a bribery and fraud scheme involving federal procurement contracts, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney David B. Barlow of the District of Utah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 8, 2014
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has closed its investigation of State Correctional Institution – Pittsburgh after the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PDOC) significantly improved security policies and practices at the prison and throughout the Pennsylvania prison system. The reforms ...
