News from January 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requesting more information on a series of lab incidents involving select agents, as reported by USA Today. The letter was sent by full committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Jerry L. Akin, 61, formerly from Belleville, Illinois, was sentenced to fifty-one months in prison on two counts of wire fraud involving a scheme to embezzle funds from a doctor's office, Don Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today. Akin was also ordered to...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A convicted bank robber has been sentenced to 29 years in federal prison for firing a gun at a teller and customer during a robbery in Orland Park.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management is seeking input on the analysis of the Wind River/Bighorn Basin District portion of the August 2017 competitive oil and gas lease sale. The District is comprised of the Cody, Lander and Worland field offices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Fistfight and Shooting Took Place in Late Afternoon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Congressional Staffer Sentenced to Prison for Failure to File Income Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - McKesson Corporation, one of the nation’s largest distributors of pharmaceutical drugs, has agreed to pay a record $150 million civil penalty for alleged violations of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), the Justice Department announced today.
By EPA Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III and Acting Assistant Attorney General for National Security Mary B. McCord announce the return of an indictment charging Noor Salman (30, formerly of Fort Pierce, Florida) with aiding and abetting Omar Mateen’s attempted provision and provision...
By EPA 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 DOE 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 Commerce Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - 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...
By Commerce 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: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Miguel Angel Morales, 32, of Valley Springs, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to 15 years and 8 months in prison for receipt of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
Release: BALTIMORE - A Prince George’s County, Maryland, man was arrested at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) on Saturday, Jan. 14 after Transportation Security Administration officers caught him trying to carry a handgun past a security checkpoint. The.45 caliber semi-automatic handgun was loaded with seven bullets.
By Commerce 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: Irvin Randall Newswanger, 48, of Lancaster, PA, was charged Jan. 12, 2017, by Indictment1 with possession and distribution of child pornography announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Elvin R. Mitchell, Jr., has been arraigned on conspiratorial bribery and money laundering charges for paying over $1 million to obtain City of Atlanta contracts.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - EM’s Savannah River Site (SRS) liquid waste contractor recently earned an “excellent" rating and more than $23.2 million - or 94 percent of an available award fee - for its fiscal year 2016 performance.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - 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...
