News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - Two former executives of Louis Berger International (LBI), a New Jersey-based construction management company, have been sentenced in connection with a long-running bribery scheme to secure government construction management contracts by bribing officials in India, Indonesia, Vietnam and Kuwait.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed the conference report to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act by a vote of 407-5. House and Senate opioid conferees met on Wednesday of this week to finalize legislative text and vote on amendments. With the support of well over...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced that an indictment was returned yesterday by a federal grand jury charging Udraka Roberts-Bey, age 25, of New Orleans, Louisiana, and Jennifer Gabrielle Anselmo, age 22, of Slaughter, Louisiana, of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released unemployment data for June 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ANTHONY BOVE, the former Commissioner of the Board of Water Supply of the City of Mount Vernon (the “Water Department"), was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for soliciting a $10,000 bribe from...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman today kicked off debate on the conference report to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, the product of bicameral negotiations to advance a unified package of legislation to combat the opioid epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Culver City, California, man was arrested yesterday on federal charges of economic espionage and violations of the Arms Export Control Act for his attempts to sell sensitive satellite information to a person he believed to be a foreign intelligence agent.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: PARTICIPANTS. Marie-Alberte Boursiquot - M.D., F.A.C.P., President-elect of the Catholic Medical Association. Prepared remarks . William J. “Bill" Cox - President of the Alliance of Catholic Health Care. Prepared remarks . Cathy DeCarlo - Nurse, New York. Prepared remarks . Richard Doerflinger - Former...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today hosted a forum discussion on conscience rights led by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA). The discussion focused on the importance of preventing government discrimination against doctors, nurses, hospitals, and other health care entities that refuse to participate in abortions. Participants echoed a unified theme - #NoAbortionCoercion - that no American should be forced to participate in an abortion.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: PARTICIPANTS. Marie-Alberte Boursiquot - M.D., F.A.C.P., President-elect of the Catholic Medical Association. Prepared remarks . William J. “Bill" Cox - President of the Alliance of Catholic Health Care. Prepared remarks . Cathy DeCarlo - Nurse, New York. Prepared remarks . Richard Doerflinger - Former...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Amanda Rubio Alfaro, 42, of Woodbridge, was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will hold a public meeting and open house to present and solicit comments on the Central Valley Project Improvement Act Annual Work Plans for Fiscal Year 2017. The CVPIA mandates changes in management of the Central Valley Project, particularly for the protection, restoration and enhancement of fish and wildlife. The event will be held...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - About 20 members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ National Response Team, or NRT, arrived on scene today at the 3800 block of San Pablo and 40th Street in Emeryville, Calif., to help investigate a six-alarm fire that occurred early July 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Kevin W. Techau, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Iowa, announced that the former Superintendent at the Effigy Mounds National Monument who stole human remains and hid them in his garage for twenty years was sentenced today in federal court to serve federal jail time.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the filing of a criminal complaint charging Elizabeth Brooks Perkins (46, Brooksville) with bank robbery and a related firearms offense. If convicted on all counts, she faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. Perkins was arrested on July 7, 2016.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today hosted a forum discussion on conscience rights led by Health Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Pitts (R-PA). The discussion focused on the importance of preventing government discrimination against doctors, nurses, hospitals, and other health care entities that refuse to participate in abortions. Participants echoed a unified theme - #NoAbortionCoercion - that no American should be forced to participate in an abortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Daofu Zhang, 40, of Shenzen, China, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 15 months of imprisonment for conspiring to sell counterfeits of sophisticated integrated circuits to a purchaser in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Three Houston men have been handed significant sentences following their convictions related to the armed bank robbery of a Katy area Chase Bank in 2014, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Keith Stephens, 28, Keon Jackson, 28, and Duquam Mathis, 22, all of Houston, pleaded guilty Oct. 19, 2015, to bank robbery and discharge of a firearm in commission of a crime of violence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining the implications of the Obama administration’s decision to unlawfully fund Obamacare’s cost sharing reduction (CSR) program. The program was the focus of a joint report issued by the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 8, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Enclosed below are Ranking Member Diana DeGette's remarks as prepared for delivery at the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled "The ACA’s Cost Sharing Reduction Program: Ramifications of the Administration’s Decision on the Source of Funding for the CSR Program":
