News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: On Saturday, a jury in New Orleans convicted the owner of a health care company for her role in a $3.2 million Medicare fraud scheme operating in and around New Orleans.
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz seeking further information on the current status of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence programs (NSDD).
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Energy and Commerce Committee Member John Shimkus (R-IL), House Ways and Means Committee Member and Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, M.D. (R-GA), and House Ways and Means Committee Member Charles Boustany Jr, M.D. (R-LA) spearheaded a letter sent today demanding Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt to withdraw the Administration’s proposed Part B Drug Payment Model.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Sergio Yeremi Martinez-Mejia, of the Dominican Republic, pleaded guilty to falsely claiming that he was assigned a social security number that was in fact assigned to another person.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Convicted domestic violence offender John Patrick Blair, 64, of Clarksburg, pled guilty today to unlawful possession of a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A sergeant with the Atlantic City Police Department (ACPD) today admitted structuring financial transactions to avoid currency reporting requirements and lying to federal agents, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz seeking further information on the current status of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence programs (NSDD).
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz seeking further information on the current status of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence programs (NSDD).
By DOL Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Employer's names: Georgia Power Co. ABB Inc. Inspection site: 317 Covered Bridge Road, Cartersville, Georgia 30120. Citations issued: Citations were issued to the employer on April 26. Investigation findings: U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration inspectors opened an...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. handed down lengthy prison terms to two cocaine traffickers for their involvement in a long-standing drug conspiracy, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Ricardo Rebollar, 27, of Mexico...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - An Overland Park woman pleaded guilty to sexually exploiting a 13-year-old victim, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By USDA Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today joined Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) to introduce the Timber Innovation Act - bipartisan legislation that would help accelerate research and development - and ultimately ...
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders of the Energy and Commerce Committee today sent a letter to Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz seeking further information on the current status of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Nuclear Smuggling Detection and Deterrence programs (NSDD).
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Chairman Marsha Blackburn has sent a letter to Cate Dyer, CEO of StemExpress, requesting full cooperation with the Select Investigative Panel ’s efforts to obtain all business and accounting documents from the fetal tissue procurement organization.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, following a push last year by U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Representative Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: MONTROSE, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management Uncompahgre Field Office invites the public to a recreation coordination meeting at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 3, at the Holiday Inn Express (1391 S. Townsend Ave.) in Montrose, Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Gozi Was Used to Empty Bank Accounts Across the United States and Europe.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Finds South Dakota Unnecessarily Relies on Nursing Facilities to Provide Services to People with Disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Brian Powell, 33, of Salem, New Hampshire, pled guilty on Monday in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to producing child pornography, announced United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2016
News Release: BURLINGTON, Vt. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and the Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that on May 2, 2016, Jesse Harris, 38, of Brooklyn, New York was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison...
