News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - In the first federal prosecution of its kind, a high-frequency trader was sentenced today to three years in prison for disrupting commodity futures prices in a $1.4 million fraud scheme.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing as part of the ongoing Disrupter Series to examine how mobile health care apps are disrupting the ways that doctors and patients engage in the health system and...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing as part of the ongoing Disrupter Series to examine how mobile health care apps are disrupting the ways that doctors and patients engage in the health system and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: A City of Miami resident pled guilty to possessing 242 stolen identities used in unemployment and tax fraud schemes.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: The New Mexico Bureau of Land Management's Oil and Gas Lease Sale originally scheduled for July 20, 2016, has been rescheduled to Sept. 1, 2016, in order to ensure adequate public notice. The location of the sale will remain in Roswell, New Mexico. The parcels to be considered in the sale are located...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Sex Trafficking Scheme Used Threats, Violence and Coercion to Compel Women into Prostitution in New Orleans and Elsewhere.
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) today announced they will introduce the Countering Iranian Threats Act of 2016. The bipartisan bill expands sanctions for ballistic missile development, support for terrorism, and other illicit Iranian actions; sanctions transfers of conventional weapons to or from Iran; and extends the Iran Sanctions Act.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The news keeps getting worse for taxpayers on the hook for the Obamacare CO-OP mess. The Illinois Department of Insurance announced yesterday evening that Land of Lincoln Health would shutter, forcing its nearly 50,000 participants to find new coverage. Illinois brings the total to 16...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Andracos Marshall, a/k/a “Draco," age 42, of Bowie, Maryland, to 23 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for conspiring to distribute cocaine; possession with intent to distribute cocaine; and money laundering ...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today led the Senate’s approval of a motion to proceed to a formal conference with the House of Representatives on S. 2012, her broad, bipartisan energy legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of health care fraud and false statements relating to health care matters, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Two people who worked in the real estate business in the Toledo area were both sentenced to more than two-and-a-half years in prison for their roles in a $1.5 million conspiracy to defraud several banks, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS-Criminal Investigations.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Science & Technology Press Office Contact: John Verrico, (202) 254-2385 Washington, DC—The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded a nearly $750,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Other Agencies Technology ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Shared priorities for conservation and land preservation converge to strengthen national defense WASHINGTON, July 12, 2016—The U.S. Departments of Defense (DoD), Agriculture and the Interior today announced the addition of three military bases to the Sentinel Landscape Partnership, a conservation effort ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: ValueAct to Pay $11 Million for Investing in Halliburton and Baker Hughes without Notifying Antitrust Authorities The Department of Justice announced today that ValueAct has agreed to pay $11 million to settle allegations that certain ValueAct entities violated the reporting and waiting period requirements ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: A Cumberland, Virginia, resident pleaded guilty to one count of corruptly endeavoring to impair and impede the due administration of the internal revenue laws, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Two Kentucky residents were sentenced to prison today after pleading guilty in January to conspiring to defraud the United States with respect to claims, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Kerry B. Harvey of the Eastern District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: As part of the federal government’s ongoing efforts to address unlawful dietary supplements, the Department of Justice announced today criminal cases against three individuals for violations of the federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) related to purported disease cures. Each of the three individuals ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch and Deputy Attorney General Sally Q. Yates released the following statements today on the passing of Associate Deputy Attorney General David Margolis, senior-most career employee at the Department of Justice.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its discount rate meetings for May 23 and June 13, 2016.
