News from May 2015
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Contact Person: Beth Drake (803) 929-3000.
By DOL Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) released the following statement on the Department of Labor’s release of guidance on implementing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - Today, Ivan Bennett Willis (22) was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison by Senior United States District Court Judge Robin J. Cauthron announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Upon his release from incarceration, Willis was ordered to serve five years of supervised release and register as a sex offender, said Coats.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Orbit Medical Inc. and Rehab Medical Inc. will pay $7.5 million to resolve allegations that Orbit submitted false claims to federal health care programs for power wheelchairs and accessories, the Justice Department announced today. Orbit Medical and Rehab Medical, a partial successor of Orbit, are durable medical equipment suppliers based in Salt Lake City, Utah and Indianapolis, Indiana, respectively.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders this week formally introduced bipartisan legislation to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act to help improve chemical safety and management. H.R. 2576, the TSCA Modernization Act, is sponsored by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee...
By DOE Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power has scheduled a two-day hearing for Wednesday, June 3 and Thursday June 4. On June 3, the subcommittee will meet at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building and on Thursday June 4, the subcommittee will reconvene at 10:15 a.m. in 2322 Rayburn. The...
By Interior Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. - The twenty-fifth annual Grand Canyon Star Party will be held from Saturday, June 13 through Saturday, June 20, 2015 on the South and North rims of Grand Canyon National Park. National parks such as Grand Canyon are protective harbors for some of the last remaining dark skies in this country.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Six men and a woman have been charged with firearm and ammunition offenses. The charges are contained in complaints unsealed late yesterday and this morning in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By USDA Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson today made the following statement after EPA’s release of the “Waters of the U.S." (WOTUS) rule.
By Commerce Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power has scheduled a two-day hearing for Wednesday, June 3 and Thursday June 4. On June 3, the subcommittee will meet at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building and on Thursday June 4, the subcommittee will reconvene at 10:15 a.m. in 2322 Rayburn. The...
By USDA Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: MANHATTAN, Kan. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement after the White House Office of Management and Budget released the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s finalized ‘Waters of the United States’ (WOTUS) rule.
By EPA Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders this week formally introduced bipartisan legislation to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act to help improve chemical safety and management. H.R. 2576, the TSCA Modernization Act, is sponsored by Environment and the Economy Subcommittee...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: BOISE - Ajellon Dedeaux, 27, of Rancho Cordova, California, was sentenced yesterday to 144 months in federal prison for distributing tens of thousands of oxycodone pills to Boise in a large scale drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Stephen Barnhart, 49, Wichita, Kan., is charged with one count of attempted manufacture of methamphetamine, two counts of possession of materials used in the manufacture of methamphetamine, one count of possession and distribution of chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine, one count of possession ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Hamilton Health Center, Inc., a federally qualified health center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has agreed to pay the United States $270,000 to settle False Claims Act allegations. The settlement results...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Two individuals were charged for endorsing and cashing stolen and fraudulently obtained United States Treasury checks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that FRANK BIANCUR, JR., 40, of West Haven, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with seeking and receiving illegal payments while employed as a Zoning Enforcement Officer for the Town of East Haven.
By EPA Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power has scheduled a two-day hearing for Wednesday, June 3 and Thursday June 4. On June 3, the subcommittee will meet at 2:00 p.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building and on Thursday June 4, the subcommittee will reconvene at 10:15 a.m. in 2322 Rayburn. The...
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: COVINGTON - A federal judge sentenced a Cincinnati man, who has a lengthy criminal history, to 120 months in federal prison for distributing over 500 grams of heroin in Covington, Ky.
By DOJ Newswire | May 27, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ Martin Margarito-Casimiro, 28, of Camargo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, has pleaded guilty to kidnapping, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
