News from March 2016
By DOE Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Further advancing the Energy and Commerce Committee’s #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives voted to say #Yes2Energy and unanimously approved six committee energy bills. The bills underscore the committee’s ongoing commitment to advancing legislation to boost the economy and create jobs.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Subcommittees: * Oversight and Investigations (114th Congress) . Participant List: GRANT T. BALDWIN, Ph.D., MPH. Director of the Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention (DUIP). National Center for Injury Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). DAVID X. CIFU, M.D. Virginia Commonwealth...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) called for meaningful action to address the serious health risks posed by concussion and repetitive brain trauma. At an unofficial roundtable discussion, Pallone insisted that the Committee conduct a more in-depth review to examine the causes, effects, treatment, and prevention of concussions.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A family physician with offices in Cresskill and Little Falls, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for defrauding Medicare, Medicaid and private insurance companies out $280,000 by billing them for non-existent office visits, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two East Orange, New Jersey, men are charged today with filing false federal income tax returns on behalf of inmates at the Essex County Correctional Facility (“Essex County Jail") in order to fraudulently obtain income tax refunds that were used to pay for bail, lawyers, and other expenses, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The San Joaquin River Restoration Program (SJRRP) is planning to release approximately 105,000 hatchery-produced juvenile spring-run Chinook salmon into the San Joaquin River Friday, March 18. The release will provide an opportunity to carry out fisheries studies while contributing to the long-term reintroduction of the spring-run salmon, which were historically abundant in the river until the 1950s.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Energy and Power, chaired by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-KY), has scheduled a markup for Wednesday, March 16, 2016, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building to consider a discussion draft entitled, “H.R.___, the Pipeline Safety Act of 2016."
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building upon the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives is set to vote on twelve more committee bills this week. Collectively, the bills continue the committee’s efforts to create jobs, boost the economy, protect small businesses from burdensome red tape, and embrace policies that say #Yes2Energy.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Employer name: ALSS Recycling Inc. Inspection site: 2600 Republic Blvd., Birmingham, Alabama 35203. Citations issued: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued ALSS Recycling failure-to-abate citations on March 11, including one serious and three other-than-serious...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Douglas Ashby, 29, of Newport News, was sentenced today to 412 months in prison for a racketeering conspiracy. Ashby’s sentence will run consecutive to a 10 year sentence on an earlier federal firearms conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Belleville, New Jersey, woman today admitted leading a conspiracy to illegally obtain and distribute oxycodone in New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Jason L. Nichols, 32, Rewey, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson to 27 months in federal prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for unlawfully possessing ammunition as a convicted felon. Nichols pleaded guilty to this offense on January 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: Tuesday, March 15, 2016. 10: 0 a.m. Executive Overreach Task Force Hearing. 2141 Rayburn House Office Building. Hearing on: "Executive Overreach in Domestic Affairs Part I - Health Care and Immigration". Witnesses: * Ms. Elizabeth P. Papez, Partner, Winston & Strawn LLP. * Mr. Josh Blackman, Associate ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dariusz J. Prugar, age 32, of Syracuse, New York, was convicted on Friday, after a week-long trial before a federal jury in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, of computer fraud and wire fraud. Prugar was continued on bail and no date is set for sentencing. Senior U.S. District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo presided over the trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Dodge City man pleaded guilty Monday to transporting child pornography across state lines, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Andysheh Ayatollahi, 36, formerly of Virginia Beach, pleaded guilty today to charges of conspiracy to commit financial institution fraud and filing a false tax return.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A federal jury has convicted a Studio City man of possessing more than 1,400 credit card profiles that had been stolen from consumers who used gas pumps with “skimmers" that illegally collected their credit card information.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 270 months, followed by lifetime supervised release, on his conviction of production of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and senior committee member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, today released comments from the health care and patient community in response to the policy questions raised in their report, “The Price of Sovaldi and Its Impact on the U.S. Health...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2016
News Release: The joint meeting of the Nevada Bureau of Land Management's three Resource Advisory Councils (RACs) will be held March 23-24 in the Bonanza Room of the Nugget Resort Casino, 1100 Nugget Ave., Sparks, NV from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. both days. A public comment period is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on March 24.The...
