News from May 2016
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | May 24, 2016 BOS 2016-078
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - The grandson of a deceased Social Security beneficiary admitted to stealing more than $300,000 of benefits mistakenly paid to his grandmother following her death. Ricky Lee Carlson, 63, pled guilty to theft of government funds before U.S. District Court Judge Marco Hernandez on Monday, and admitted he committed the theft over a course of 27 years.
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today delivered the following remarks at a Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Hearing on “Legislative Hearing on 17 FTC Bills."
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Registration for the June 6, 2016, Criminal Justice Reform conference at Concordia University School of Law is nearly full. Top criminal justice scholars, major Idaho practitioners and policy makers and Idaho judges will convene to address reforms targeting some of the most pressing problems...
By EPA Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining waste, fraud, and abuse within the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) testified.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - A federal grand jury indicted Dr. Vilasini M. Ganesh and Dr. Gregory Belcher last week with conspiracy to commit health care fraud, health care fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and money laundering, announced Acting United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. Dr. Ganesh is a family practitioner and Dr. Belcher is an orthopedic surgeon.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - An Ohio man was sentenced today to 22 years in federal prison for his role in a sex trafficking ring involving minor girls who were brought to Chicago from Iowa to engage in prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Scranton has indicted a husband and wife from Centre Hall, Pennsylvania for explosives and firearms offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging six men with fraud and...
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Petrified Forest, AZ - Petrified Forest Field Institute recently released its 2016 schedule, providing new opportunities to immerse in the beauty and science of the park.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, G. F. “Pete" Peterman, III, announced today that Hugh Stephen Worley, age 54, of Bethlehem, Georgia was sentenced to 31 months in federal prison on May 24, 2016, for one count of bribery by the Honorable C. Ashley Royal, U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: DAVENPORT, IA - On May 23, 2016, Jonathan Earl Moore, 29, of Davenport, Iowa, was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment by District Court Judge Stephanie M. Rose, after pleading guilty to a felon in possession of a firearm charge, announced Acting United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Moore was...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, strongly objected to the continued unsubstantiated attacks against IRS Commissioner John Koskinen by Republican Oversight Committee Members and Members of the Freedom Caucus.
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining waste, fraud, and abuse within the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) testified.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held an oversight hearing on the “Culture of Corruption" at the Department of the Interior (DOI). During the hearing, Mary Kendall, DOI Deputy Inspector General (IG), acknowledged that Jonathan Jarvis, Director of the National...
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed a landmark bicameral, bipartisan overhaul of our chemical safety standards. The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act passed the House by a vote of 403 to 12 and is further evidence of the committee’s ongoing bipartisan...
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA), today held a hearing examining waste, fraud, and abuse within the Medicare and Medicaid programs. Officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), and HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) testified.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Charles E. Moynihan, who handled the case, stated that on May 22, 2015, Hogan entered the Chase Bank just after it opened and passed the bank teller a note demanding money. The note also indicated that nobody would be hurt if the teller complied. The teller provided Hogan with a specific amount of United States currency.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Kedwin Vargas, 25, and Rene A. Laureano, 30, of Roxbury, Mass., have been ordered detained in federal custody on federal criminal complaints charging them with conspiracy to transport a minor interstate for prostitution and transporting a minor interstate for prostitution.
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: In an effort to improve transportation and access to federal parks, forests, refuges and public lands, Alaska federal land management agencies (FLMA) will conduct a statewide survey this summer to learn more about how visitors travel to public lands in the state.
