News from May 2016
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), has announced a hearing for Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Medicare and Medicaid Program Integrity: Combatting Improper Payments and Ineligible Providers."
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Brandon West, 39, of Lyons, NY, pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography involving prepubescent minors before U.S. District Court Judge Elizabeth Wolford. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of 20 years, a $250,000 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: The final three defendants were each sentenced to 33 years in prison today for their involvement in the violent armed robbery of Tapper’s Diamonds and Fine Jewelry in West Bloomfield and an attempted armed robbery of Medawar Jewelers in Grand Rapids in April 2014, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Joshua Berry Faces Possible Life Sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Sara Monroe, 29 -, of Holden, Maine, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Bangor, Maine to conspiracy to possess with...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. -- Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas Tom Beall will speak Wednesday to the Wyandotte County Bar Association.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Joseph Pitts (R-PA), today held a hearing on a new proposed rule from CMS on its Part B Drug Payment Model, examining both the patient and doctor perspective. The new model is a mandatory experiment, which has the potential to severely hurt...
By EPA Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced a legislative hearing on Tuesday, May 24, 2016, at 10:10 AM in 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Legislative Hearing on 17 FTC Bills."
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Raymond “Ken" Ferris, 60, of Detroit, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Bangor, Maine to a 87 month term of imprisonment and a three year term of supervised release for conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute oxycodone.
By US DOT Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Inhofe, Boxer Introduce Resolution to Recognize National Public Works Week
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following remarks at a Health Subcommittee Hearing on the Medicare Program Part B Drug Payment Model...
By Federal Newswire | May 17, 2016
The Energy Department announced the expansion of its Solar Ready Vets program to five additional military bases, as well as a $10 million award to 10 new projects through its Solar Training and Education for Professionals (STEP) funding program. The initiatives aim to meet the solar industry's increasing demand for skilled professionals.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: MOOSE, WY -Grand Teton National Park and the Grand Teton Association announced today that Maggie Raboin was selected for the 2016 Boyd Evison Graduate Fellowship. Since 2005, the Evison Fellowship has supported graduate students as they conduct advanced studies across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Raboin is pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley in the Environmental Science, Policy, and Management Department.
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Environment and the Economy Subcommittee Ranking Member Paul Tonko (D-NY) today said they will oppose the current framework of legislation to update chemical safety laws unless significant changes are made. Last year, Pallone...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A total of 16 people have been charged following a multi-year, multi-agency federal investigation into one of the largest synthetic cannabinoid trafficking enterprises in the country.
By DOL Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN)-along with Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education Chairman Todd Rokita (R-IN) and Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN)-today wrote to the Department ...
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -On Monday, National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan B. Jarvis joined U.S. Senator Angus King to meet with elected officials in the Millinocket area and to attend a public meeting at the University of Maine in Orono. Their joint appearances were scheduled so that Mainers could voice their opinions on a proposed donation of private lands in the Katahdin region that could result in a new unit of the national park system.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: G. F. Peterman, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Rico Antonio Barnett, age 33, from Athens, Georgia, was sentenced today by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, United States District Judge. Mr. Barnett was sentenced to serve 156 months’ imprisonment for...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Former franchise owner of Melting Pot Restaurant used employees' money for personal expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch, of the Little Rock Field Office for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today that Nicholas Tensley, age 29, of Conway, Arkansas, was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for production of child pornography.
