News from July 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing held with MedPAC to discuss hospital payment issues, patient access to care, and options for reform.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Thomas Jopson, 66, and David Jopson, 64, of Rio Oso, were sentenced Tuesday by United States District Judge John A. Mendez to one year in prison for conspiring to cultivate marijuana.
By State Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote Secretary of State John Kerry to request a briefing on the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, which was released on Monday.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Assistant Special Agent in Charge David Downing and Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Juan Valenzuela, age 40, of Rogers, was found guilty on two counts of Conspiracy to Distribute/Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine and two counts of Distribution/Possession with Intent to Distribute more than 50 grams of Methamphetamine following a two day jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Jackson, TN - A mother and four nurses assigned to care for her now-deceased son have all pled guilty to conspiring to commit health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A licensed pediatrician practicing in Jersey City, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 21 months in prison for fraudulently billing Medicaid for more than 1,000 wound repair procedures that were never performed, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Earlier today, Long Island educator and coach Kevin Barry O’Connell, 54, pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography at his residence in Patchogue, New York. The plea proceeding was conducted before U.S. District Judge Leonard D. Wexler at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, NY. O’Connell faces a minimum penalty of five years in prison and a maximum of 20 years, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that his Office - in partnership with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the New Orleans Police Department, Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office, and Crimestoppers - will increase efforts to investigate and prosecute federal laws prohibiting...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man and a Kansas City, Kan., man were indicted by a federal grand jury today for producing child pornography. Kenneth R. Davis, 35, of Independence...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Highest road across the Sierra dedicated exactly 100 years ago.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Responding to recent incidents in which unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), also known as “drones," interfered with manned aircraft involved in wildland firefighting operations, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is supporting the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Forest Service in their simple message to drone operators: If you fly; we can’t.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that on July 28, 2015, a federal jury in Juneau, Alaska, convicted a physician from Wrangell, Alaska, of distributing and receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Defendant Hid Outside, Recorded Unsuspecting Women In Neighborhoods in Northwest Washington.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved the nomination of Denise Turner Roth to be Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA). Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.) made the following comments after the Committee’s business meeting. The nominee was ordered reported favorably by voice vote and now advances to the Senate floor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Used Money Paid to Police Department for Personal Benefit and Abused Tribal Credit Card.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - DEA Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg yesterday announced the 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back. As authorized, the event will take place in Pennsylvania and Delaware on September 12th from 10 am-2 pm local time. As with the previous nine Take-Back events, sites will be set up throughout communities nationwide so local residents can return their unwanted, unneeded, or expired prescription drugs for safe disposal.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service is seeking information that may assist with an investigation of the Reynolds Creek Fire in Glacier National Park.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Employer name: Clemco Industries Inc. Investigation site: One Cable Car Drive, Washington, Missouri. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's St. Louis Area Office issued 10 serious and one other-than-serious safety and health violations...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: Pipestone National Monument Guest Speaker Series.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 29, 2015
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey, man was arrested this morning after FBI agents found sexually explicit images of children on his home computer, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
