News from December 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA), incoming Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee, today released the following statement regarding the Obama Administration’s decision not to move forward with the Medicare Part B demonstration...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: North Carolina Man Sentenced to Prison for Tax Evasion and Possession of an Unregistered Firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kyle Eagan, 27, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) and Murder in Aid of Racketeering, was sentenced to 265 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorneys Alexandra Foster (619) 546-6735 and Sabrina Feve (619) 546-6786.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced a federal indictment charging PAUL R. HANSMEIER, 35, and JOHN L. STEELE, 45, with conspiring to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars by deceiving federal and state courts. HANSMEIER was suspended from the practice of law in the State of Minnesota on Sept. 12, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Ruckelshaus: Earlier this week, the Department of Justice filed charges against two of Heritage’s former executives-CEO, Jeffrey Glazer and President, Jason Malek-for engaging in price fixing with two drugs, doxycycline hyclate and glyburide. According to charging documents, Mr. Glazer and...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration on Monday will issue a final rule that clarifies an employer's continuing obligation to make and maintain an accurate record of each recordable injury and illness. The final rule becomes effective Jan. 18, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On Dec. 14, 2016, Chad Allen Moens, 43, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 90 months in prison for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Moens was ordered to serve three years of supervised release following his prison term and to pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribute a quantity of cocaine, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Conspired to Pay and Receive Kickbacks and Commit Contracting Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -Steven B. Boyd, a/k/a “Gotti," age 37, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty today to sex trafficking of a minor.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, WV - The National Park Service and Active Southern West Virginia have received a second year of grant funding from the National Park Foundation’s Active Trails program. This $23,544 grant will fund an expansion of the “Get Active in the Park" program that was piloted with success during the summer and fall of 2016 at the recently opened Camp Brookside Environmental Education Center inside New River Gorge National River.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Raimundo Hogan (42, Jacksonville) guilty of being a felon in possession of a firearm. Hogan, who qualifies as an Armed Career Criminal, faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years, up to life, in federal prison. His sentencing hearing will be scheduled for early next year.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: ARPA-E today announced up to $25 million in funding for a new program to significantly expand the opportunities to produce macroalgae as an economically viable, renewable feedstock for biofuel and energy applications.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: Starry night skies are an important part of the special places the National Park Service protects. With the extent of urbanization in the United States it is becoming exceedingly difficult to experience the night with little impact from artificial light pollution. Here at Obed, away from urban development...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A suburban investment advisor has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly allocating profitable trades to his personal accounts while assigning unprofitable trades to his clients.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney for the District of Minnesota Andrew M. Luger today announced the trial conviction of DEUVONTAY SHELBY CHARLES, 21, who was originally indicted on March 7, 2016, in the District of Minnesota, for sex trafficking three minor girls and for producing and receiving child pornography...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that, on Dec. 16, 2016, Robert Robidoux, 33, of Richmond, Vermont, was sentenced to 36 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to charges that he conspired to distribute heroin. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Christina Reiss also ordered that Robidoux serve three years of supervised release after his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for robbing Bank of America and kidnapping the bank manager by forcing him to leave the bank with him.
By State Newswire | Dec 16, 2016
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement:
