News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - MED 1st of Evansville, P.C., located in Evansville, Indiana, was charged by Grand Jury Indictment today with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, and conspiracy to violate the Controlled Substance Act announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Lyle Plentywounds, Sr., 60, of Fort Hall, Idaho, was sentenced today to a total of 33 months in prison for assault on an officer and for a violation of his supervised release on a previous case, which also involved an assault on an officer, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Plentywounds...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI), Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Jim McDermott (D-WA) and Social Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Xavier Becerra (D-CA) today responded to the release of the 2016 Medicare Trustees Report and 2016 Social Security Trustees Report...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), today held a hearing examining implementation issues with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. The hearing brought together representatives of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Energy Information Administration (EIA), as well as stakeholders in manufacturing, agriculture, and fuel production to discuss the current status and implementation outlook of the program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A former Hancock County, West Virginia, Sheriff’s Deputy has been charged with using excessive force against an arrestee, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) issued the following statement in response to Speaker Paul Ryan’s unveiling of House Republicans so-called “Better Way" health care proposal...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed into law the “Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2016." A House amendment to S. 2276 passed earlier this month, and the final legislation cleared the Senate last week. As the product of bipartisan work from the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Stephen A. Monaco, D.P.M., 59, of Broomall PA was charged by criminal information, unsealed today, in connection with a $5 million scheme to defraud Medicare, Medicaid and four private victim insurance companies, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The information alleges that Dr. Monaco committed the fraud through his practice, A Foot Above Podiatry, Inc. (“A Foot Above"), located in Havertown PA.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: 18 year old attempted to travel to the Middle East in material support of ISIL.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: FBI Announces Arrest Made in Connection with Two Bank Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Joshua Cline, 23, of Fairmont, WV, pled guilty to a federal firearm charge today, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal grand jury has indicted Oluwatoyin Solarin for filing false Medicaid claims, money laundering, and seeking to evade banking reporting requirements.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing on the annual Trustees Report, which was released just a few hours ago.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: FBI Seeks Public’s Assistance to Identify Armed Robber.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: The Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability has its Year-in-Review: 2015 Energy Infrastructure Events and Expansions report. This report, which provides a summary of significant energy disruptions and infrastructure changes that occurred in the United States in 2015, is based primarily...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - President Obama today signed into law the “Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2016." A House amendment to S. 2276 passed earlier this month, and the final legislation cleared the Senate last week. As the product of bipartisan work from the...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Republicans today unveiled a plan to replace Obamacare. It is a vision for a Confident America in which every American has access to quality, affordable health care. This is the fifth plank of A Better Way, a bold agenda to tackle some of our country’s biggest challenges. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) joined House leaders in unveiling the plan this afternoon at AEI.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Chairman John Shimkus (R-IL) today issued the following statement after President Obama signed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act into law. The legislative...
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, issued the following statement regarding the announcement that the Medicare Fraud Strike Force has charged more than 300 people with schemes that involved more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - U.S. Attorney George L. Beck Jr., Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange, United States Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell, announced today an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud...
