News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - In one of the largest settlements to date involving federal allegations of prescription drug diversion in Massachusetts, CVS Pharmacy, Inc., has agreed to pay $3.5 million to resolve allegations that 50 of its stores violated the Controlled Substances Act by filling forged prescriptions for...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration's National Advisory Committee on Occupational Safety and Health will hold a meeting of the Emergency Response and Preparedness Subcommittee on July 12-14, 2016, in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Justin Frank Clark, 28, formerly of Stafford, pleaded guilty yesterday to attempting to coerce and entice a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: CINCINNATI -David Guy, 61, of New Richmond, Ohio was sentenced to 1,020 months in prison for producing, receiving and possessing child pornography and obscene images of child sexual abuse. He was also sentenced to 20 years of supervised release.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Johns Manville. Inspection site: 200 West Industrial Blvd., Cleburne, Texas 76033. Citations issued: June 29, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration began an inspection Feb. 11, 2016, after reports that a machine severed...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today released a white paper examining potential reforms to the law governing Medicare physicians’ referrals aimed at removing barriers that prevent hospitals, doctors, and other health care providers from moving to alternative, more...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: On June 29, 2016, Christopher R. Pelate, 34, of Pinckneyville, was sentenced for a methamphetamine offense, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A North Bergen, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 300 months in prison for his role in a series of at least 27 burglaries and attempted burglaries across six states, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that GEORGE SANCHEZ, also known as “Little G," 22, of Bridgeport, pleaded guilty yesterday in Bridgeport federal court to one count of possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A former employee of the Deschutes County District Attorney’s Office and the Oregon Department of Justice appeared in federal court this week and admitted to stealing more than $55,000 from the Department of Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and U.S. Department of Health...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today responded to the U.S. State Department’s 2016 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, expressing his disappointment that Malaysia remained on the Report’s Tier 2 Watch List instead of being downgraded to Tier 3 - the lowest ranking for countries regarding their efforts to combat human trafficking.
By State Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a hearing today on U.S. efforts to fight global corruption, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned of the threat corrupt governments pose to U.S. national security interests. The annual cost of corruption, according to estimates cited by the World Economic Forum, amounts to approximately five percent of global economic output or roughly $2.6 trillion.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Defendant Fired Seven Shots at Victim.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today issued the following statement after the Department of the Interior released its final regulation for valuation and revenue collection from oil, gas and coal produced on federal lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Amy L. Planch, 50, of Moyock, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today to evasion of income tax assessment.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - On Thursday the Government Accountability Office issued a report, requested by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, on the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Florida Resident Charged in Superseding Indictment with Attempting to Damage Religious Property.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Gregory M. Cox, 51, of Vallejo, charging him with being a felon in possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of a short-barrel shotgun, and unlawful possession of a short-barrel rifle, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 30, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Billy Ray Lang, Jr. 29, of Anchorage, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve 46 months in prison for his role in a drug trafficking and money laundering conspiracy, followed by five years of supervised release.