News from March 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Federal Search Warrants Executed At 9 Locations In The Binghamton, New York Area.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing entitled “Where Have All the Patients Gone? Examining the Psychiatric Bed Shortage," to discuss the lack of access to inpatient psychiatric beds for seriously mentally ill patients. Members heard from a panel of 10 witnesses with a variety of perspectives to discuss the effects this scarcity of care has on patients, hospitals, and the community at large.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: An Akron physician and three of his employees were indicted for illegally prescribing hundreds of thousands of doses of painkillers and other pills to customers for no legitimate medical purpose, even after he learned some customers had died from overdose-related deaths, law enforcement officials announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal criminal complaint, filed on March 24, 2014, was unsealed in San Francisco today, charging twenty-six defendants with firearms trafficking, money laundering, murder-for-hire, drug distribution, trafficking in contraband cigarettes, and honest services fraud, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag, FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy and Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will appear next week at separate committee hearings to review their respective agency’s proposed budget request and priorities. McCarthy will testify at a joint hearing before the Energy...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On March 25, 2014, Matthew Corey Cummings, a 31 year-old resident of Aurora, Colorado, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge John Jarvey to 63 months in prison for money laundering and for being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Nicholas A. Klinefeldt. Judge Jarvey also ordered Cummings to serve two years of supervised release following his term of imprisonment.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Three employees of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently received awards for their national and international contributions to information technology.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As part of the committee’s ongoing commitment to the safety and security of our nation’s energy infrastructure, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today hosted a briefing for bipartisan members of the committee and members of the California delegation on grid security issues, including the attack last spring on the Metcalf substation in San Jose, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: NEW HAVEN Conn. - John J. Arvanitis, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Robert Lee, also known as "B.O.," 36, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 26, 2014
News Release: Memphis, TN - Today, the United States Supreme Court handed the United States a unanimous victory in United States v. Castleman, a federal criminal case originating in the Western District of Tennessee, announced U.S. Attorney Edward L. Stanton III.
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Rep. Eliot L. Engel, the senior Democratic member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, delivered the below remarks, as prepared for delivery, at today’s full committee markup of H.R. 4278, H.Res. 418, and H.Res 494.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: A Copley man pleaded guilty to a 14-count criminal information for operating a fraudulent investment scheme which caused investors to lose approximately $1.8 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The National Park Service (NPS) announced that the remaining scaffolding surrounding the Washington Monument will begin to come down this week in preparation for the Monument’s re-opening on May 12 after a 32-month closure due to damage from an earthquake. The National Park Service and the Trust for the National Mall will host a re-opening ceremony at 10 a.m. that morning; details of the ceremony will be forthcoming.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: The House Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, chaired by Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), today held a hearing entitled, “The Foundation for Success: Strengthening the Child Care and Development Block Grant Program." During the hearing, members discussed the committee’s priorities for reauthorizing the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) program, and examined opportunities to help improve the quality of the program’s child care services.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON—Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson met with important stakeholders from across the country to discuss the need for commonsense immigration reform, and hear firsthand their comments and perspective on a wide range of ...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, March 25, 2014—Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today released the following statement: "Today and every day, we celebrate the extraordinary diversity and productivity of American agriculture. Farms and ranches of all forms and all sizes contribute to the safe, healthy, affordable food supply we enjoy in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Detrick and Natashia Tucker, a husband and wife who owned and operated a tax preparation business named T&T Express Tax located in Pine Mountain, Ga., were sentenced to serve 12 months and one day and 46 months in prison, respectively, for crimes relating to the preparation of false tax returns, announced ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: The Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and the Competition Bureau Canada today issued a set of “best practices” to make more transparent how they coordinate merger reviews that affect the United States and Canada.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: Billy James Hammett, 30, of Marysville, Calif., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to serve 87 months in prison for violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act in a 2011 racially motivated attack against a white man and an African-American woman ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2014
News Release: A Long Island, N.Y., doctor was arrested today on charges that he submitted millions of dollars in false billings to Medicare.