News from January 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Neutron detectors and sources play critical roles in national defense, homeland security, nuclear power plant control, radiation medicine, petroleum exploration, materials science, industrial imaging, and a host of other applications. It is essential that these types of devices be tested periodically for accuracy against a radiation standard that emits neutrons at a precisely known and constant rate.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Cory Jean Gainey, 24, of Reedsville, West Virginia, was convicted of unlawfully purchasing a firearm, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man today admitted his role in a crack cocaine distribution conspiracy operating in Camden, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement today in response to a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the effects of repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on health insurance coverage and premiums...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management will honor Janice Shepherd with the 2016 Volunteer of the Year Award at the Grand Junction Field Office on Jan. 20. The award recognizes individual volunteers or volunteer organizations for their contributions toward public land management in Colorado throughout the year.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - CH2M HILL BWXT West Valley (CHBWV), the cleanup contractor for the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP), earned $360,000 of a possible $450,694 award fee for the March to August 2016 performance period, according to a.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Seven individuals pleaded guilty to participating in a large-scale international online fraud conspiracy, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis of the Southern District of Mississippi and Special Agent in Charge Raymond R. Parmer Jr. of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New Orleans.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The Hanford Site ’s Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) is coming down, building by building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: JAN 17 - BOSTON, MA - McKesson Corporation, one of the nation’s largest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs to pharmacies and other health care providers agreed to pay a record $150 million civil penalty for alleged violations of the Controlled Substances (CSA), Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting U.S. Attorney William D. Weinreb announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Jeffrey Aaron Betrand, of South Carolina, was sentenced late last week to 33 months imprisonment in federal court. In August of 2016, Betrand pled guilty to the sole count in the indictment, Mailing Threatening Communications, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 876. After Betrand completes the term of imprisonment, he will be on federal supervised release for 3 years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Gwendolyn Hampton was indicted on tax evasion charges involving the years 2009-2013. The indictment alleges that during those years she sought to evade $376,463 in tax.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today introduced H.R.__, a bill to direct the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to revoke certain changes to the ownership reporting requirements for noncommercial educational broadcast stations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Uribe, 40, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 63 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal firearms and drug trafficking laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - McKesson (McKesson), one of the nation’s largest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs, agreed to pay a record $150 million civil penalty for alleged violations of the Controlled Substances (CSA), DEA Denver Division Special Agent in Charge Barbra Roach and Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that five Springfield, Mo., residents were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Greene County and Webster County, Mo., and for illegally possessing firearms.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: The non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) today issued a new report acknowledging that while the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made some important improvements to its foreign drug inspection program, there are still serious data gaps on foreign drug firms shipping finished...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A North Carolina man pleaded guilty today to a federal drug crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Steven Bailey, 53, of Charlotte, entered his guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - McKesson Corporation (McKesson), one of the nation’s largest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs, agreed to pay a record $150 million civil penalty for alleged violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen and Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas Albright, age 71, of Marlboro, New York, was arrested January 12 on charges of distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: The National Park Service announced last Friday the release of the Off-Road Vehicle Management Plan and Final Environmental Impact Statement for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. The plan analyzes a range of alternatives and actions for managing off-road use of motor vehicles as well as on-road use of off-highway vehicles and street-legal all-terrain vehicles.
