News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles today announced that Special Agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE), Homeland Security Investigations have executed seizure orders against 67 domain names of commercial websites engaged in the illegal sale and distribution...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today gave the following opening statement at a Full Committee Markup of 22 bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Department of Justice Officials to Join U.S. Attorney Phillips in Local Programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Yesterday, following two and a half weeks of trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned a guilty verdict against Redinel Dervishaj, on Hobbs Act extortion conspiracy, attempted extortion, threatening/committing physical violence in furtherance of an extortion plan, and related charges involving...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) commented today on the final Medicaid managed care rule from CMS that eases some long-standing restrictions on Medicaid managed care plans’ reimbursements for care provided in institutions for the mentally ill. Oversight and Investigations Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) called for similar action in his legislation, H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) commented today on the final Medicaid managed care rule from CMS that eases some long-standing restrictions on Medicaid managed care plans’ reimbursements for care provided in institutions for the mentally ill. Oversight and Investigations Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) called for similar action in his legislation, H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Billy Long (R-MO) and Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) today introduced H.R. ____, the HHS Data Protection Act. The bipartisan legislation is the result of the committee’s investigation on how to improve cybersecurity at HHS. The legislation will...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael Smith, 35, of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to a federal indictment charging him with eight counts of distribution and one count of conspiracy to distribute the Schedule I controlled substance heroin and the Schedule II controlled substance fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Washington,D.C. - U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and Barbara Boxer (D-CA), ranking member of the Senate EPW Committee, introduced S. 2848, The Water Resources Development Act of 2016...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Billy Long (R-MO) and Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA) today introduced H.R. ____, the HHS Data Protection Act. The bipartisan legislation is the result of the committee’s investigation on how to improve cybersecurity at HHS. The legislation will...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Concluding a three-year investigation, authorities today arrested 11 defendants who are accused of using peer-to-peer file-sharing programs to receive and possess - and, in some cases, distribute - child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Yesterday, following two and a half weeks of trial, a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, returned a guilty verdict against Redinel Dervishaj, on Hobbs Act extortion conspiracy, attempted extortion, threatening/committing physical violence in furtherance of an extortion plan, and related charges involving...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- Biscayne National Park is hosting eight separate ceremonies to welcome at least 100 new citizens in the four months leading up to the 100th birthday of the National Park Service. The ceremonies begin at 9:00 and 11:00 AM on May 5 and 6, July 15 and Aug. 25, 2016, are open to the public and take place in the park’s Dante Fascell Visitor Center.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) commented today on the final Medicaid managed care rule from CMS that eases some long-standing restrictions on Medicaid managed care plans’ reimbursements for care provided in institutions for the mentally ill. Oversight and Investigations Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) called for similar action in his legislation, H.R. 2646, the Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2015.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today gave the following opening statement at a Full Committee Markup of 22 bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Andrew Bean, 51, of South Paris, Maine pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing a firearm after being convicted of four felony offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Quinn Ausidi Goffigan, 35, of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty today to charges of possession with intent to distribute cocaine base.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) responded today to the alarming findings by the Corporation for National and Community Service Office of the Inspector General. The watchdog’s report revealed that the...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Farmington, PA -A new National Park Service (NPS) report based on 2015 visitation shows that 984,471 visitors to the five National Park Service sites in Western PA spent $58 million dollars in communities near the parks. The five National Park Service sites include;Allegheny Portage Railroad NHS, Flight...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2016
News Release: Lyme disease is emerging across North America and in Michigan as the blacklegged tick that carries the disease invades new areas. You can learn about how scientists are investigating this public health issue by attending a program at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) on May 12.
