News from March 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining Obamacare’s broken promises and wasted taxpayer dollars, five years after the law’s enactment...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: In a guest post on The Commerce Blog, NIST's Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services Phillip Singerman discusses a new Federal Funding Opportunity in support of manufacturing.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, leaders in the Senate and House introduced bipartisan, bicameral legislation to replace the broken Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) formula with an improved payment system that rewards quality, efficiency, and innovation. The bipartisan, bicameral bill seeks to end the cycle...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: Posted Threats to Kill Police Following Events in Ferguson, Missouri.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), the Ranking Democrat on the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, today delivered the following opening statement at a Subcommittee hearing on the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) budget request for Fiscal Year 2016. The hearing’s witness was TSA Acting Administrator Melvin Carraway.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Seven persons -- Vladimir Handl, Michael Rose, Peter Scalise, David Gaither, Richard Leyland, Edwin Hetherton, and Paul Fink -- were arrested after being charged with racketeering, money-laundering, and drug trafficking related crimes, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: Orlando, FL - Adventist Health System Sunbelt Healthcare Corporation (Adventist) has agreed to pay $5,412,502 to resolve claims that it violated the False Claims Act by providing radiation oncology services to Medicare and TRICARE beneficiaries that were not directly supervised by radiation oncologists...
By State Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the expanding membership of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We are writing to request that you exercise your statutory authority to remove Dr. Rafael Moure-Eraso, the current Chairman of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), as well as CSB General Counsel Richard Loeb and Managing Director Daniel Horowitz. The statute...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the below statement in response to a Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) report on the Transportation Security Administration's PreCheck program. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ESWIN ESTUARDO MARTINEZ-REYES, age 42, a citizen of Guatemala, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Bill of Information for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By State Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representatives Eliot Engel (D-NY), the top Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs; Chris Smith (R-NJ), chair of the Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations; Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA); and William Keating (D-MA),...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Joyce Esther De Armero was sentenced yesterday to twelve months and one day in prison, and ordered to pay restitution for mail fraud, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: A twenty-four-count indictment was unsealed this morning in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, charging Andrew Barrett, a licensed pharmacist, with health care fraud, filing false claims, unlawful monetary transactions, filing false personal tax returns, and the filing of and assisting in the preparation...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The former owner and chief executive officer, the chief operating officer, and the chief financial officer of the now-closed Sacred Heart Hospital were convicted by a jury after a nearly two-month trial of collectively paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal kickbacks in exchange...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: IRS Issues “2015 Dirty Dozen" Cautioning Taxpayers of Prevalent Tax Scams.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: Conspirator Pleaded Guilty to Federal Charges in January 2015.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: March 19, 2015 BOS 2015-058. Employer name: Pregis Corp., a manufacturer of foam, paper and plastic packaging materials. Inspection site: 300 Lower Warren St., Queensbury, New York 12804. Date inspection initiated: The inspection, which began Sept. 19, 2014, was conducted under OSHA's National Emphasis...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Ryan Arcara, 25, of West Seneca, NY, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny, to possession of child pornography. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, a $250,000 fine, or both.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 19, 2015
News Release: The Big South Fork National Recreation and River Area will be hosting a reception for Kentucky Secretary of Tourism Bob Stewart on Tuesday, April 14, from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. (ET) at the National Park Service Ranger Station in Stearns, Kentucky. Secretary Stewart oversees the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet which promotes and markets Kentucky's assets in parks, tourism, cultural heritage, and arts. Everyone is welcome to the reception.
