News from September 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today on Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposal to open the set-top box market to third-party device-makers...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - On Friday, September 9, 2016, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent a letter calling on the new Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board, the group tasked with reviewing a new fiscal plan...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Robert Wallace Smith, 39, of Lemoore, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Dale A. Drozd to 20 years in prison, to be followed by 20 years of supervised release for receipt and distribution of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Angelbert Evoulou was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 57 months in federal prison following his conviction at trial in May 2016 on several offenses related to a stolen identity refund scheme, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, House Ways and Means Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt to express concerns about fraudulent Medicare spending despite the Agency’s recent efforts to prevent improper payments before they are sent out the door.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Defendant admits to obtaining substantial amounts of crystal methamphetamine and faces up to 40 years in federal prison.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives today passed legislation by voice vote to ensure sports medicine professionals are covered by their malpractice insurance when providing care to their athletes or teams in other states. H.R. 921, the Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act of 2016, is authored by Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed committee members Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH) and Rep. Jerry McNerney’s (D-CA) H.R. 4979, the Advanced Nuclear Technology Development Act of 2016, furthering the committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today the unsealing of an Indictment against BRYAN LEE ADDINGTON, age 55, of Ethel, Louisiana. The Indictment charges the defendant with five counts of mail fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1341, and one count of...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Mark Caron, 53, of Burlington, was sentenced to twenty-five months imprisonment by United States District Judge Geoffrey Crawford. The term of imprisonment will be followed by a three-year period of supervised release by ...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today added to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess by unanimously passing H.R. 1301, the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015, sponsored by committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). The bill, which originated out of the Communications...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago has indicted the self-appointed bishop of a Pennsylvania ministry for allegedly collecting bogus travel-agent fees from hotels where her church members worked as desk clerks.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA), and Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Building on the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess, the House of Representatives today passed legislation by voice vote to ensure sports medicine professionals are covered by their malpractice insurance when providing care to their athletes or teams in other states. H.R. 921, the Sports Medicine Licensure Clarity Act of 2016, is authored by Health Subcommittee Vice Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY).
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today added to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess by unanimously passing H.R. 1301, the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015, sponsored by committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). The bill, which originated out of the Communications...
By EPA Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today added to the Energy and Commerce Committee’s bipartisan #RecordOfSuccess by unanimously passing H.R. 1301, the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015, sponsored by committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL). The bill, which originated out of the Communications...
By DOE Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, House Ways and Means Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee today sent a letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andrew Slavitt to express concerns about fraudulent Medicare spending despite the Agency’s recent efforts to prevent improper payments before they are sent out the door.
By State Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in the House of Representatives supporting a resolution calling for the expeditious consideration and finalization of a new, robust, and long-term Memorandum of Understanding on military assistance to Israel between the United States Government and the Government of Israel (H.Res. 729 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury today convicted Jemel Maurice Lyles, a/k/a Michael Anderson, Anthony Alva and Tony Alva, age 35, of Beltsville, Maryland, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and money laundering, arising from a scheme in which he fraudulently received $72,000 from a victim after falsely promising to assist the victim to obtain $1 million in financing for a day care center.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 12, 2016
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Djuan Levell Washington, 28, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute heroin.
