News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha today announced the appointment of Assistant U.S. Attorney William J. Ferland to the position of Criminal Chief and Assistant U.S. Attorney Sandra R. Hebert to the position of Deputy Criminal Chief.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on global human rights at a full Committee hearing...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Dear Acting Director Kane: Unlike each of America’s fifty states, the elected leaders of the District of Columbia are vested with control over its local affairs but their decisions are subject to review and oversight by the United States Congress. In addition, pursuant to the National Capital Revitalization...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a report.pdf) today concluding that recent Republican allegations of $500 million of waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Lifeline program are based on faulty assumptions and bad data.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Communications and Technology Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today held a hearing continuing its ongoing oversight of the Federal Communications Commission. All five FCC commissioners testified and members examined the waste, fraud, and abuse within the Universal Service Lifeline program, the agency’s proposed privacy rules, and the FCC’s set-top box proposal, among other things.
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: WASHINGTON - 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 was also the subject of a civil case brought by the department, which they have now agreed to settle by entry of consent decrees of permanent injunction.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released a report.pdf) today concluding that recent Republican allegations of $500 million of waste, fraud, and abuse in the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC’s) Lifeline program are based on faulty assumptions and bad data.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today wrote to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) regarding its anti-doping efforts heading into the Olympic Games in Rio next month. The letter was signed by full committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Hearing on “Oversight of the Federal Communications Commission:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Douglas J. Plate, 53, of Navarre, Florida, a federal employee at Hurlburt Field, was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for receipt, possession, and access with intent to view child pornography. He will also be required to register as a sex offender. The sentence was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Beckley man substantially involved in a California-to-West Virginia drug conspiracy pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Velarian Sylvester Carter, 37, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams of methamphetamine.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today welcomed the approval of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA) today held a hearing examining ways to strengthen our national trauma system. The hearing reviewed a recent report and recommendations by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM), as well as H.R. 4365, the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016, authored by committee member Rep. Richard Hudson (R-NC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: Defendants to be Sentenced on Related Criminal Charges in August.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Cindy Hall, 41, of Monroe, North Carolina, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for defrauding the USDA’s Summer Food Service Program. Hall was also sentenced to three years of supervised release and ordered to pay $249,225.75 in restitution to the Virginia Department of Health.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Yuma, Ariz. - On July 21, Reclamation’s Yuma Area Office (YAO) and the City of Yuma (City) are hosting a public meeting at the City’s Wastewater Treatment Plant, 289 N. Figueroa Avenue at 4:00 p.m. in Yuma, Arizona to discuss the ongoing issue of increasing traffic and high levels of dust and air pollution along the Colorado River South Levee Road (South Levee Road).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Isaiah Beavers, age 26, of South Bend, Indiana was arrested and charged by criminal complaint for threats posted using the Internet. Beavers was arrested over the weekend by the FBI and the South Bend...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: Floyd Calvin Clanton, Jr., 58, of Nashville, Tenn., was indicted last week by a federal grand jury on six counts of bank robbery and one count of attempted bank robbery, announced David Rivera, U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Clarksville, Tennessee man was sentenced today in United States District Court by District Judge David J. Hale, to ten years in prison for sex trafficking a 15-year-old female, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
