News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Sheikh Mohammed Khurshan, 55, of Philadelphia, PA, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, in a disability benefits fraud, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Khurshan is charged with 11 counts of wire fraud, 16 counts of health care fraud, one count of Social Security...
By EPA 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 DOE 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 State Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “America as a Pacific Power: Challenges and Opportunities in Asia." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By EPA 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 EPA 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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Rose Ann Labarbera (61, Cape Coral) has pleaded guilty to theft of government funds involving the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Housing Choice Voucher Program (HCV). She faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Bryan Blankenship, 24, of Rittman, was charged with receiving, distributing and possessing visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: Hawaii National Park, Hawai'i - Nāmakanipaio Campground in Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park has reopened. Hawai'i Volcanoes Lodge Company, which manages the campground under a concession contract for the park, is taking reservations immediately.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: The House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), will meet TODAY at 11:00 a.m. to mark up H.R. 4843, the Improving Safe Care for the Prevention of Infant Abuse and Neglect Act.
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today announced committee passage of the bipartisan U.S. Department of State Authorization Act of 2017. The legislation requires U.S. leadership at the United ...
By DOE 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 DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: FBI Offers Reward in Cobb County Armed Bank Robbery Cases.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Last week’s announcement by the National Park Service(NPS) regarding 2015 economic benefit and impacts of NPS sites across the country underscores the vibrant relationship between the Blue Ridge Parkway and its neighboring communities. The report highlights that 15 million visitors to the Parkway in 2015 spent $952.1 million in communities near the park. This spending supported 15,337 jobs across the region and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $1.3 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ROY JOSEPH BUSIERE, age 68, of Covington, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Raju Kosuri, 44, and Smriti Jharia, 45, of Ashburn, as well as four co-conspirators, were indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States and visa fraud, among other charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a felony Criminal Indictment was returned by a federal grand jury in Scranton on April 26, 2016, charging federal prison inmate Davon Perry, age 36.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MARCELO ORDONEZ-RIVAS, age 34, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien.
By State Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) joined Armenian Americans and members of Congress to commemorate the Armenian Genocide, during which 1.5 million innocent lives were taken.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 27, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A community forum highlighting the latest advances in social media and technology will take place next week in Wheeling in order to help parents keep their children safe online.
