News from June 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee today continued its investigation of the General Motors ignition switch recall with a hearing featuring testimony from GM CEO Mary Barra and Anton Valukas, who led the company’s internal investigation. Valukas’ report...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON -House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Acting Inspector General Kelly Tshibaka last night requesting that the IG’s office investigate the FTC’s relationship with Tiversa, Inc. The Committee has substantial concerns about the reliability of the information Tiversa provided to the FTC and the relationship between the FTC and Tiversa.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing with General Motors CEO Mary Barra and internal investigator Anton Valukas to examine Valukas’ investigation of the ignition switch recall and compare his report to the committee’s own findings. Members of the subcommittee expressed disbelief and frustration over a culture that did not prioritize safety or act quickly to investigate failures.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that it has filed a criminal information in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg charging Israel Acevedo, 52, of Lebanon with defrauding the Lebanon County Housing Authority out of more than $23,000 in federal funds provided by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: The Department of Health and Human Services is out with a new report today about costs and subsidies in the health care exchanges under the president’s health care law. So how does it compare to other analyses? A recent analysis conducted by Avik Roy in Forbes finds that, “Obamacare increased 2014 individual-market...
By State Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement following his meeting this afternoon with Iraq’s Ambassador to the U.S., Lukman Faily...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: POCATELLO - Alessandra Valencia Toscanelli, also known as Sarah Kate Henecke, 36, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was sentenced today in United States District Court to three years of probation, with 60 days of home detention for making false statements in a mortgage application on a U.S. Department of Housing...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. After two days of testimony, a federal jury sitting in Chicago, Illinois, has returned a verdict finding Cherron Marie Phillips, who also goes by the name of “River Tali Bey," 43, guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
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By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 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 executive session on Social Security Advisory Board nominations...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, June 25, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Medicare Program Integrity: Screening Out Errors, Fraud, and Abuse." Gary...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Michael Jones, a former resident of New Kensington, Pa., has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh for crack cocaine trafficking and firearms crimes, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: An office worker pleaded guilty today in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving Anna Nursing Services Corp. (Anna Nursing), a defunct home health care company.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Within the last thirty hours, twenty-eight people have either been arrested or have surrendered on multiple charges contained in four separate indictments alleging offenses involving the manufacturing and sale of synthetic drugs. Specifically charged in each indictment are: a) conspiracy...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee today continued its investigation of the General Motors ignition switch recall with a hearing featuring testimony from GM CEO Mary Barra and Anton Valukas, who led the company’s internal investigation. Valukas’ report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury sitting in Hartford has returned an indictment charging KIEJUAN HAUGABOOK, 35, of Hartford, with one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, one count of possession of a sawed-off ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A New Jersey jewelry store owner who used his business to further one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever charged by the Justice Department today admitted his role in the scheme, the 17th conspirator to do so, New Jersey U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday, June 25, 2014, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled “Medicare Program Integrity: Screening Out Errors, Fraud, and Abuse." Gary...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 18, 2014
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich yesterday sentenced Alex Gonzalez-(39, Buenaventura, Colombia) to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine while onboard a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Gonzalez-Arango pleaded guilty on March 11, 2014.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 17, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy, together with the American Public Power Association (APPA), today recognized the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority (OMPA) and Silicon Valley Power (SVP) of Santa Clara, California, as the winners of the 2014 Public Power Wind Awards.
