News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Memphis, TN - Four Shelby County jailers were arrested late yesterday and early this morning on federal charges of attempting to smuggle OxyContin into the Shelby County Jail to provide to inmates.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE... Contact... Kristina Baum - 202.224.6176 Donelle Harder - 202.224.1282 INHOFE CALLS HYDRAULIC FRACTURING RULE “UNNECESSARY," REJECTS RULE WITH INTRODUCTION OF FRESH ACT WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today bipartisan leaders from the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees released a working summary outlining the broader framework of an agreement being negotiated to permanently replace the broken Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula with a system that rewards...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Joshua Linkous Is Accused Of Assaulting Three Fellow Employees.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced its hearing and markup schedule for the week of March 23. Members will discuss the 340B drug pricing program, Internet-connected products and technology, prescription drug and opioid abuse, and U.S. spectrum policy. The committee will also advance drafts of its coal ash legislation and data security legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today that Brian Francis Conover, 35, of Richland, Michigan, was sentenced to serve 15 months in federal custody. He was also ordered to pay $13,396 in restitution to Meijer Stores and will serve a year under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: James Inman Taylor III, 29, of Nashville, Tenn., was captured today near an Atlanta motel after being sought since his escape from Metro Nashville detectives on February 5, 2015, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today bipartisan leaders from the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees released a working summary outlining the broader framework of an agreement being negotiated to permanently replace the broken Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula with a system that rewards...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued the following statement in response to the administration’s regulations on hydraulic fracturing on federal lands...
By EPA Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today bipartisan leaders from the House Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees released a working summary outlining the broader framework of an agreement being negotiated to permanently replace the broken Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula with a system that rewards...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Think of warmth, sunshine and fun! Plan your August visit to Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) for the 14th Annual Port Oneida Fair. Mark your calendar for August 7 and 8, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., with special events on Friday and Saturday evenings. The fair will feature activities...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA), sent a second letter to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), this time calling for a full review of FDA practices surrounding duodenoscopes, the special medical device linked to outbreaks of an antibiotic-resistant infection at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, Washington and in health care facilities around the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr. announced today that Gregory A. DeRue of Granger, Indiana was sentenced to 21 months in prison for mail fraud. DeRue was also ordered to pay restitution of $208,133 to the victim of his scheme, Southwestern Michigan College, and agreed in a...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Jeffery Jamison, 57, of Brandon, and Ashley Davis, 30, of Jackson, pled guilty on Thursday, March 19, 2014 before Senior U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee to intentionally failing to file a FORM 8300 with the U.S. Department of the Treasury in relation to their business activities at a Jackson...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Larry Watson, 58, of East St. Louis, was sentenced to a total of 60 months in prison on an indictment charging him with Maintaining Drug-Involved Premises, as well as revocation of his supervised release, Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C., March 20, 2014 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today issued a final rule extending the Dairy Forward Pricing Program to allow producers and cooperative associations to enter into forward price contracts through Sept. 30, 2018. This final rule also extends all other requirements of the program until Sept. 30, 2021.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Roe: I write to express my serious concern regarding the cyberattack on Premera Blue Cross and the failure of the company to make this information public and begin notifying current and former policy holders for over six weeks. These failures are particularly troubling given the scope of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Jennifer Rodriguez, age 41, of Hyattsville, Maryland today to a year and a day in prison followed by three years of supervised release for a fraud conspiracy arising from the filing of 283 false tax returns. Judge Motz entered an order that Rodriguez pay restitution of $983,382, the amount of fraudulent tax refunds paid by the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: - Yesterday, lead sponsors Rep. John Lewis (GA-5), House Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer (MD-5), Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn (SC-6), Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (MI-13), and Rep. Robert Brady (PA-1) and more than 170 Democrats reintroduced the Voter Empowerment Act in the House of Representatives...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 20, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - James L. Ash, 44, of Glenville, West Virginia, and Sarah Snyder, 37, of Spencer, West Virginia, were sentenced today for manufacturing methamphetamine in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
