News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Zhe Wang, 20, of Queens, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and distribution of, controlled substances and money laundering conspiracy, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Point Pleasant, New Jersey, woman today admitted that she wrongfully accessed protected health information and paid kickbacks to healthcare professionals on behalf of a $1 million Medicare fraud scheme involving the purported non-profit The Good Samaritans of America, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today praised Major League Baseball (MLB) and the MLB Players Association for reportedly agreeing to ban the use of smokeless tobacco products by all new players in the league.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: CRAIG, Colo. - Annual winter closures at the Bureau of Land Management’s Emerald Mountain Special Recreation Area outside Steamboat Springs went into effect Dec. 1 to reduce disturbance to wildlife.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Clayton William Wenner, 49, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was sentenced by Federal District Court Judge Alan B. Johnson on Dec. 1, 2016, for being a felon in possession of firearms. Wenner was arrested in Cheyenne, Wyoming. He received 24 months of imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Demea Loyd, Salem, MO, was sentenced to three months in prison, plus six months of home confinement, on wire fraud charges involving her embezzlement from Sears. Additionally, she was ordered to pay restitution of $358,805.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today following the announcement that Congressman Greg Walden (R-OR) will be the new Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston woman pleaded guilty today to obtaining oxycodone and Xanax by fraud, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Greer Elizabeth Ramsey, 32, entered her guilty plea to obtaining controlled substances by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, and subterfuge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment charging Rashad Mathews, 28, of Youngstown, with drug trafficking and firearms violations, U.S Attorney Carole S. Rendon said.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON- Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter to the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA), Denise Turner Roth, seeking information on GSA’s efforts...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: By mimicking how dogs get their whiffs, government and university researchers have demonstrated that “active sniffing" can improve by more than 10 times the performance of current technologies that rely on continuous suction to detect trace amounts of explosives and other contraband.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: FBI Announces Arrest Made in Connection with a Bank Robbery in Fort Lauderdale.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - Every Friday, from October through April, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and its partners host the popular Brown Bag Lecture series which provides unique opportunities for members of the public to learn more about the area’s natural resources and public lands. Speakers include...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has scheduled a hearing for Thursday, December 8, at 10 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Mixed Martial Arts: Issues and Perspectives."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Judge Issues Civil Penalty Against Colorado Company That Sold Recalled Magnets.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today praised Major League Baseball (MLB) and the MLB Players Association for reportedly agreeing to ban the use of smokeless tobacco products by all new players in the league.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: A team of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and university scientists has developed a sensitive new assay method for detecting the fungus that causes "wheat blast," a disease of wheat in South America and, most recently, Bangladesh.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Christina Scaringi, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the Northeast Region of the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Yan Feng was sentenced to 35 months of prison and three years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent in Charge David Zebley. The sentence, handed down yesterday by the Honorable Maxine Chesney, United States District Judge, follows a guilty plea entered earlier this year.
