News from August 2017
By DOE Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection (DCCP) Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today announced Melissa Froelich as the new Chief Counsel of the subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: United States will also pursue claims against Precision Lens, Paul Ehlen and Dr. Jitendra Swarup.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Takoma Park, Md. - During the early morning hours of April 27, 2017, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Baltimore Field Division, Takoma Park Police Department and the Montgomery County Police Department conducted a federal search warrant in the area of Flower Avenue, Takoma Park, Md.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: On the afternoon of Aug. 18, 2017, National Park Service Glen Canyon National Recreation Area Dispatch received a report of a boat explosion with several injured persons and possible flame and smoke still present at the Bullfrog Fuel Dock on Lake Powell in Kane County, Utah. Several National Park Service...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Ona M. Colasante, 60, a physician who formerly practiced in Gainesville, was sentenced Friday afternoon to 12 months in prison and ordered to pay a $1,134,000 fine and more than $1 million in restitution after being convicted on May 2, 2016, of 162 counts of health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Ramon Green (35, Pinellas Park) today pleaded guilty to possessing with the intent to distribute marijuana and cocaine. He faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Charleston dentist who falsely billed West Virginia Medicaid and West Virginia Medicaid Managed Care Organizations (MCOs) for more than $700,000 pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Antoine Skaff, 58, entered his guilty plea to health care fraud. Skaff...
By EPA Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection (DCCP) Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today announced Melissa Froelich as the new Chief Counsel of the subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: Dentist overcharged and falsely billed Medicaid and managed care organizations for more than $700,000; agrees to pay over $2.2 million in civil settlement.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Last week, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) delivered a speech directly to the American people from the Reagan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California about the benefits of pro-growth tax reform. This week, Chairman Brady will continue to speak with American workers and job creators about how tax reform will create jobs, increase paychecks, and grow the U.S. economy.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: FBI Announces Arrest Made in Connection with Two South Florida Bank Robberies.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection (DCCP) Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) today announced Melissa Froelich as the new Chief Counsel of the subcommittee.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Diamond Bar man who illegally imported the active ingredients used in erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra and Cialis and repackaged the drugs for sale as herbal sexual enhancement products was sentenced today to three months in federal prison followed by six months of home detention.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A North Texas man was sentenced Friday to 50 years in federal prison for producing and distributing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal judge today sentenced a Chicago real estate developer to three years in prison in connection with a fraud scheme related to a $105 million line of credit secured by city and suburban properties, including the Streets of Woodfield Mall in Schaumburg.
By State Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement after President Donald J. Trump’s address to the nation on the way forward in Afghanistan.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: RAWLINS, Wyo. - The Bureau of Land Management High Desert District, Rawlins Field Office, in coordination with Encampment Fire Department, is fighting a wildfire approximately 1 mile southeast of Encampment, WY, which has burned an estimated 200 acres. A unified command has been established.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: In Del Rio this morning, United States District Judge Alia Moses sentenced 68-year-old former Eagle Pass City Manager Hector Chavez, Sr., to 42 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for lying to FBI agents during their investigation into a “pay-to-play" scheme involving Maverick County contracts, announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today will deliver a speech at President Ronald Reagan’s Santa Barbara, California, ranch about how tax reform will improve the lives of all Americans.
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Trade Subcommittee Chairman Dave Reichert (R-WA) issued the following statements as the United States and Togo co-host the 2017 African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) Forum this week to further strengthen important economic ties between the United States and Africa.
