News from April 2016
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015: Examining Physician Efforts to Prepare for Medicare Payment Reforms." The hearing will be the sequel to a March 10, 2016 hearing on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - A jury deliberated for approximately four hours before returning a verdict of guilty this afternoon against Kelton Snyder, 23, of Decatur, Ill., for conspiracy to murder a witness, Paige Mars, also of Decatur. Last month, on March 7, Snyder admitted that he and co-conspirator Matthew Vogt...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Columbus, Georgia resident was sentenced today to 18 months in prison for her role in a stolen identity refund fraud conspiracy, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman, III for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Laura Lyons, 30, of Bangor pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to maintaining a drug involved premises.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015: Examining Physician Efforts to Prepare for Medicare Payment Reforms." The hearing will be the sequel to a March 10, 2016 hearing on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Miss - Funso Hassan and Anthony Shane Jeffers entered guilty pleas on Monday, April 11, 2016, before Chief District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., in a case involving counterfeit checks distributed through fraudulent "Mystery Shopper" internet sites, U. S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources released H.R. 4900, the “Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA)." Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) and bill sponsor Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) issued the following statements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Tyrone Johnson, 34, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a prison term of 80 months for unlawful possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Deciphering the Debate Over Encryption: Industry and Law Enforcement Perspectives."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Harrisburg indicted Jeremy Joseph Morant, age 24, Bryce Chad Butson, age 19, Earl Cord Owens, Jr., age 33, Carlos Ruben Arenas, Jr., age 33, and Jessica Lynn Weir, age 33, on March 23, 2016, charging them with robbery. The indictment was unsealed today following the arrests of the defendants.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) urged the Surface Transportation Board (STB) to reconsider two proposals that would significantly delay Amtrak train travel throughout Oregon and the United States. The STB recently...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Breedlove Foods Inc. Location: 1818 N. Martin Luther King Blvd., Lubbock, Texas. Date Citation Issued: April 12, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration Lubbock Area Office began the inspection Oct.16, 2015, after a feed...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and David Schnorbus, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the United States Department of State, Diplomatic Security Service (“DOS-DSS"), announced today that ASHRAF LAKOU pled guilty to bank fraud, credit...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Hurricane man pleaded guilty today to a federal arson crime and a federal witness tampering crime, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jimmie Arnold Harper, Jr., 36, entered his guilty plea to aiding and abetting arson and conspiracy to tamper with a witness.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Charles Caleb Fackrell, 36, of Booneville, N.C. appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge David S. Cayer today and pleaded guilty to one count of securities fraud for operating a $1.4 million Ponzi scheme, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will be holding a press conference on Tuesday, April 12, at 1:00 to 2:00 p.m., to discuss the release of the Proposed Resource Management Plan (RMP) for western Oregon. The BLM is proposing a path forward for local communities in western Oregon with a plan that will...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Maryland resident has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months and one day imprisonment, supervised release for three years and ordered to pay more than $1.2 million in restitution on his conviction of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Unlicensed Physician Pleads Guilty to Role in Detroit-Based $6.2 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Dr. John Alan Littleford, and three others were indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver last week on charges related to the illegal distribution of prescription medication and money laundering, DEA Special Agent in Charge Barbra Roach, U.S. Attorney John Walsh and IRS Criminal Investigation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury indicted Richard Dane Small, age 31, of Hagerstown, Maryland, today on charges of transporting a minor to engage in sex, and sex trafficking of a minor.
