News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Vitas Health Corporation Midwest and related entities agreed to pay $200,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act and the Anti-Kickback Statute by paying Dr. Farid Fata for patient referrals to its hospice care services, announced U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade. In an earlier...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A 50-year-old senior Border Patrol agent stationed in Del Rio has been taken into custody on charges of distribution of child pornography and attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Thursday, Dec. 1, 2016, Neal A. Chesterfield, 39, of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, pleaded guilty before District Judge Curtis V. Gomez to possession with intent to distribute approximately 21½ kilograms of cocaine, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. His sentencing is scheduled for April 6, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jerry Rolon-Alvarez, 37, of Lackawanna, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today announced the promotion of James Glueck to Policy Director for the Committee.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft rulemaking that would impose new CERCLA 108(b) financial assurance regulations on hardrock mines, a move that defies strong congressional opposition, ignores the concerns of states and small businesses, and threatens the nation’s mineral security.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of December 5.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Democrats today unanimously voted to re-elect Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) for the 115th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Nov. 29, 2016, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging defendants Pedro Van Rhyn Soler and Edgardo Van Rhyn Soler with one count of health care fraud and two counts of money laundering for their participation in a scheme to defraud Multinational Life Insurance Company (“MLIC"), formerly known as National Life Insurance Company (“NALIC")," announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jerry Rolon-Alvarez, 37, of Lackawanna, NY, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and heroin, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Ranking Member DeFazio released the following statement following DOT's decision to grant NAI Permit...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On Nov. 29, 2016, a federal grand jury returned an indictment charging defendants Pedro Van Rhyn Soler and Edgardo Van Rhyn Soler with one count of health care fraud and two counts of money laundering for their participation in a scheme to defraud Multinational Life Insurance Company (“MLIC"), formerly known as National Life Insurance Company (“NALIC")," announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Dylan Joseph David, age 26, of St. Regis, Quebec, was sentenced today to 16 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for harboring two illegal aliens. David was also sentenced to an additional 10 months in prison for violating the conditions of a term of federal supervised release that was imposed for a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Shahbaz Khan Allegedly Conspired to Send Hundreds of Kilograms of Heroin to the United States for Distribution in New York City.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released proposed requirements for risk management and financial assurance under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - American Management Services LLC, based in Seattle, agreed to pay approximately than $1.6 million pursuant to a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve criminal charges that the company defrauded the U.S. Army and Virginia-based Clark Realty Capital LLC (Clark) while performing property management services for military housing at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Irwin, California; and the Presidio at Monterey, California.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: U.S. Rep. Bill Shuster (R-PA) statement regarding his selection by the House Republican Conference to continue serving as Chairman of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: MIAMI - Christopher Sharod Massena, 25, of Palm Beach County, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison followed by three years supervised release for the distribution of Fentanyl, resulting in the death of a 23 year old man. Massena was previously convicted for unlawfully distributing a controlled substance, Fentanyl, which resulted in death.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jesse Lewis, 46, of Buffalo, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with
By EPA Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released proposed requirements for risk management and financial assurance under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA). Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement...
