News from June 2015
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE... Contact... Julia Bell (House Natural Resources) - 202.226.9019 Kristina Baum (EPW) - 202.224.6176 WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Rob Bishop (R-Utah), chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources, and U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Committees today sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a review of the Fraud Prevention System (FPS) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The FPS was implemented in July 2011 in an effort to more proactively prevent fraud in the Medicare program, as opposed to the “pay and chase" approach.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a woman from Luzerne County has been charged with drug trafficking offenses in a Criminal Information filed on June 12 in U.S. District Court in Scranton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Caused the Army Research Laboratories to Fund a Research Project, and Then Persuaded the Defense Contractor to Subcontract with a Company He Secretly Controlled.
By EPA Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the House Energy and Commerce and House Ways and Means Committees today sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting a review of the Fraud Prevention System (FPS) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The FPS was implemented in July 2011 in an effort to more proactively prevent fraud in the Medicare program, as opposed to the “pay and chase" approach.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) today outlined principles for legislation the Committee is developing to reauthorize and reform the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the Nation’s aviation system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Bank admits alleged conduct and agrees to forfeit $2.2 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: A Canfield man was charged with mail fraud related to a scheme to defraud a North Canton company out of nearly $2.5 million, said Steven M. Dettelbach, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Cleveland office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man was sentenced Monday to 11 years in federal prison on federal armed robbery charges, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ Jesus Correa-Gonzalez, 42, of Miguel Aleman, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has been ordered to federal prison following his conviction of possession with intent to distribute approximately 125 kilograms of marijuana and unlawfully carrying a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Correa pleaded guilty April 2, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - In May 2015, federal officials from the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina met with Gaston County District Attorney, Locke Bell regarding when to certify so-called “U visas," announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, Acting U.S. Attorney Office for the...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Port Alsworth, Alaska -Fire danger in Lake Clark and Iliamna Lake region is very high and approaching extreme as prolonged hot, dry and windy weather has dried Park vegetation. These conditions mean that given an ignition source, new fires may readily start and spread quickly.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARIA PINHEIRO, 58, of Trumbull, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to two months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for filing false tax returns. Chief Judge Hall also ordered PINHEIRO to perform 100 hours of community service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment against Robert Charles Chavez, 29, of Sacramento, on Thursday, June 11, 2015, charging him with one count of attempted production of child pornography and three counts of receiving child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By State Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a letter to President Barack Obama today regarding nuclear negotiations with Iran, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, expressed alarm over recent reports that the administration might accept further restrictions on inspections of Iranian nuclear facilities and less than full disclosure of possible military dimensions of Tehran’s nuclear program if a final agreement is reached.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today invited public comment on proposed changes to the Facility Guarantee Program that would expand program coverage and streamline the application process, enhancing the program’s ability to support U.S. agricultural exports.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The former co-chief executive officer (CEO) of PetroTiger Ltd. - a British Virgin Islands oil and gas company with operations in Colombia and formerly with an office in New Jersey - pleaded guilty today to conspiring to pay bribes to a foreign government official in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Children’s Hospital, Children’s National Medical Center Inc. and its affiliated entities (collectively CNMC) have agreed to pay $12.9 million to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting false cost reports and other applications to the components and contractors...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: MONROE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Downsville man was sentenced to 342 months in prison for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Sandra Johnson, 48, of Katy, has been ordered to federal prison after admitting to receiving kickbacks in a money laundering conspiracy that targeted home décor retailer Garden Ridge Pottery, now known as At Home, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Johnson pleaded guilty Feb. 17, 2015.
