News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: HELENA - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Montana will participate in a reentry training event at the Montana State Prison in Deer Lodge today, as part of the Department of Justice’s national reentry week events. The event will be one of more than 500 reentry week events across the nation, promoting the importance of reentry issues.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee today approved the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act - or the SANDy Act, which was introduced in November by Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Gardena man has been found guilty of 14 felony counts for trafficking seven girls who worked as prostitutes, several of whom worked under threats of force, fraud or coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man who allegedly posted online advertisements in which he fraudulently offered authentic commercial driver’s licenses without the testing and identification requirements will appear in federal court today, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, at an Energy and Commerce Committee markup focused on bills to combat the growing opioid addiction epidemic, Democrats denounced the harmful impacts of cut-go, the House Republican Conference budget rule that requires funding increases be offset by spending cuts. A similar rule...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Concerned with depleting U.S. capabilities to respond to bioterror threats, House and Senate leaders today pressed HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell on plans within the administration’s emergency spending request on the Zika virus to raid the BioShield Special Reserve Fund for threats unrelated...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today welcomed the proposed rule issued by CMS that stems from the committee’s bipartisan repeal of the flawed SGR formula.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: “This fiduciary rule has had a long, dedicated, and deliberative journey.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama- Two men who conspired to file more than 1,200 false tax returns using stolen identities were sentenced to prison today, announced U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr. of the Middle District of Alabama, and Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), today approved 12 more bills as part of a multi-day markup of 22 bills. Three of the bills passed today will help address the opioid and drug abuse crisis facing our nation, adding to the eight passed during Wednesday’s portion of the markup. The committee today also passed 9 bills to improve public safety and FCC transparency.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A South Dartmouth man was arrested today and charged in U.S. District Court in Boston with child pornography offenses.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the momentum of yesterday’s approval of nine #SubHealth bills to fight opioid abuse and streamline EMT requirements for veterans, and one #SubEnergyPower bill to reauthorize pipeline safety, the Energy and Commerce Committee today passed nine #SubCommTech bills to boost public...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: The Energy and Commerce Committee today approved the Securing Access to Networks in Disasters Act - or the SANDy Act, which was introduced in November by Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ).
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the Energy and Commerce Committee approved a dozen bills to combat the growing epidemic of opioid abuse across the nation. The 12 bills address a wide spectrum of issues related to the opioid abuse crisis by expanding access to substance abuse treatment services, increasing access to overdose reversal medication, improving provider education, and increasing public awareness of the problems of substance abuse.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Inhofe, Boxer Praise Passage of WRDA Out of Committee
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - Three people with family connections to Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the perpetrators of the Dec. 2, 2015 terrorist attack at the San Bernardino Inland Regional Center (IRC), were arrested this morning on federal conspiracy, marriage fraud and false statement charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Charges were filed today against 25 Miami-area defendants in three separate cases for their alleged participation in various schemes to defraud Medicare of approximately $26 million in false claims through the Medicare Part D program.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BRIAN CARTER, age 41, of Kenner, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to stealing gift cards from the mail while delivering the mail on his postal route.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Catherine Greig, the longtime companion of convicted killer James “Whitey" Bulger, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with her refusal to testify before a federal grand jury. The investigation centered on whether others assisted her and Bulger during the 16 years they were fugitives from justice.
