News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced the return of a 31-count Superseding Indictment against fourteen individuals charging approximately $30,252,906 in Medicare fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio, 41-year-old Yvette Marie Rodriguez (aka “Anna DeHoyos") pleaded guilty to a fraudulent scheme whereby she professed to be an Immigration official who could provide immigration documents to undocumented aliens announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Thank you Mr. Chairman. The Legislative Branch Appropriations bill is $72 million above the fiscal year 2016 enacted bill.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Bobby Campbell Roofing Inc.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today welcomed the Federal District Court announcement concerning an agreement in principle between Volkswagen and U.S. authorities.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 614,712 recreational visitors to Crater Lake National Park in 2015 spent $52,185,000 in communities near the park. That spending supported 887 jobs in the local area and had a cumulative benefit to the local economy of $71,212,400.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The bipartisan encryption working group - announced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) - today released a roadmap after meeting to discuss the path forward for the group.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The bipartisan encryption working group - announced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Ranking Member John Conyers (D-MI), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) - today released a roadmap after meeting to discuss the path forward for the group.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today welcomed the Federal District Court announcement concerning an agreement in principle between Volkswagen and U.S. authorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A jury voted on Thursday to acquit Richard Hernandez, age 47, on a charge of failing to register and update his registration as a sex offender, announced U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Steven J. H. King, was sentenced in federal court this afternoon on gun charges. In December of 2015, King pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging him with being a prohibited person (convicted felon) in possession of a firearm.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment and the Economy Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today held a hearing entitled, “EPA’s Brownfields Program: Empowering Cleanup and Encouraging Economic Redevelopment."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s Inaugural Appointment of Cultural/Spiritual Mentors.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Colorado’s Northwest, Southwest and Front Range Resource Advisory Councils will meet April 25-27 at the Hotel Colorado, 526 Pine St., Glenwood Springs, CO 81601.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Inhofe Statement on Hoeven's Amendment to Block the WOTUS Rule
By Interior Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. --- A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 508,000 visitors to Biscayne National Park in 2015 spent $32 million in communities near the park. That spending supported 450 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an 18-count superseding indictment charging Amin Yu (53, Orlando) with acting in the United States as an illegal agent of a foreign government without prior notification to the Attorney General, conspiring to defraud...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Long Island Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) recently highlighted the importance of the Cures effort. In a column in the Long Island Exchange, Zeldin underscores that H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, will “boost the field of personalized medicine, tailoring treatment to patients’ needs." This is a critical...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: Hundreds of Fake Identities and Fraudulent Armenian and Georgian Passports Used To Open Bank Accounts and Mail Drops across Southern California.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 21, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced BERNARD SINGLETON, 67, of Clinton, Maryland to 108 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
