News from February 2015
By EPA Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power and the Subcommittee on Environment and the Economy today held a joint hearing with EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy to review her agency’s FY 2016 budget request and priorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today that Agility Health, LLC (“Agility Health") and Oceana County Medical Care Facility (“OCMCF") have entered into agreements to pay the federal government a total of $1,000,000 to resolve allegations that they submitted false claims to...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, March 5, 2015, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining the 340B Drug Pricing Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: A federal grand jury today returned an indictment in U.S. District Court charging Helen Love, 62, of Mansfield, Ohio, with theft of public money, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today discussed the implications of FCC action to regulate the Internet using utility-style regulations. The FCC is scheduled to vote tomorrow morning to reverse decades of precedent and implement heavy-handed rules that are destined for court challenge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Kirk Cheeks, 45, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 12 years in prison for abducting and assaulting a woman in an alley and then firing a gun during a confrontation with police, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Kenneth L. Smith, 26, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was convicted in federal court today of selling crack cocaine, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Jonathan Harry Lee Williams of Tallahassee, Florida, pled guilty today to using a minor to produce child pornography and to possessing child pornography. The plea was announced by Pamela C. Marsh, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Vernon Niiha, 51, a member of Zuni Pueblo who resides in Blackrock, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning to an abusive sexual contact charge. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Niiha will be sentenced to prison term within the range of 36 to 48 months followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. Niiha will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jose Israel Villaba, 30, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court to 60 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for his methamphetamine trafficking conviction.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) examined the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed 2016 budget with Secretary Sylvia Burwell today. Secretary Burwell testified before the subcommittee responsible for funding HHS today, on which DeLauro is the Senior Democrat, in Burwell’s first appearance before an Appropriations subcommittee.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) made the following statement about FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s decision not to testify before Congress ahead of the commission’s Thursday vote on sweeping new regulation of the Internet...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: A grand jury returned a two-count indictment charging Jordon Louis Dongarra, 33, of Ashland, with one count of bank robbery and one count of brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: EAST ST. LOUIS, IL - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, James P. Shroba announced today that April M. Elliot, 34, of Pomona, was sentenced on a methamphetamine violation, in the Southern District of Illinois.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today discussed the implications of FCC action to regulate the Internet using utility-style regulations. The FCC is scheduled to vote tomorrow morning to reverse decades of precedent and implement heavy-handed rules that are destined for court challenge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 25, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Staten Island, New York, physician’s assistant today admitted accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement today after the President vetoed a bill that would approve construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline project...
By State Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced bold, bipartisan legislation that will create a powerful effort in concert with the private sector and foreign governments to help ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: Final Defendant To Be Sentenced In 12-person Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 24, 2015
News Release: ATLANTA - Daphne Maria Patterson has been arraigned on federal charges of health care fraud and aggravated identity theft. She allegedly stole patients and their family member’s identities and billed insurance providers for services she did not render. Patterson was indicted by a federal grand jury on Feb. 17, 2015.
