News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Mary Williams, 70, of Fresno, pleaded guilty today to embezzling from a pension plan, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Prosecution Brought Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyler Robinson, 21, of Belington, West Virginia, was convicted of methamphetamine distribution today, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - 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), John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, and Assistant Special Agent in Charge Robert J. Bell of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Milwaukee District Office announced today.
By EPA 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: NORFOLK, Va. - Paula Lane (a.k.a. Paula Hipps), 47, formerly of Corapeake, North Carolina, now residing in Danville, was sentenced today to 57 months in prison for her role in an insurance fraud scheme that caused a loss over $150,000 to the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) and similar agencies in Indiana and Pennsylvania.
By DOE 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: The BLM thanks the members of the Alliance for Historic Wyoming, Oregon-California Trail Association and Corporation of the Presiding Bishop of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for assistance with the effort.
By Commerce 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 DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Chaudhry Ahmad Farooq, 24, of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to distribute heroin, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 17, 2017
News Release: Deutsche Bank Agrees to Pay $7.2 Billion for Misleading Investors in its Sale of Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 13, has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme in which two medical clinics submitted more than a quarter-million dollars in bills to the union’s health care plan for chiropractic services that were not provided or were not medically necessary.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 16, 2017
News Release: In a letter dated Aug. 11, 1777, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, “…upon examining the Biography of illustrious Men, you will generally find some Female about them in the Relation of Mother or Wife or Sister, to whose Instigation, a great Part of their Merit is to be ascribed." He continued, “I wish some of our great Men had such Wives. By the account in your last Letter, it seems the Women in Boston begin to think themselves able to serve their Country.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2017
News Release: Amber Alert Subjects Found. On Jan. 16, 15-year-old Terrianne Brooks was found safe and 40-year-old Douglas Jones was taken into custody without incident. The two were located by law enforcement in a remote area of the Navajo Reservation (the closest town is Tuba City). This is a good example of...
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 16, 2017
Release: DULLES, Va. - A man was caught with a gun at Washington Dulles International Airport on Sunday, Jan. 15 after Transportation Security Administration officers caught him trying to carry a handgun past a security checkpoint. The.45 caliber handgun was not loaded, however the carry-on bag also contained a magazine with five bullets along with five additional bullets that were loose in the same bag.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 16, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A member of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), Local 13, has been sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme in which two medical clinics submitted more than a quarter-million dollars in bills to the union’s health care plan for chiropractic services that were not provided or were not medically necessary.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after President-Elect Donald Trump’s incoming chief of staff, Reince Priebus, appeared on national television and appeared to threaten Walter Shaub, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2017
News Release: Top Ten Fugitive Terry A.D. Strickland Captured.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 14, 2017
News Release: Charlotte, NC. – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today participated in a groundbreaking for the Charlotte Area Transit System’s (CATS) second phase of the CityLYNX Gold Line Streetcar system that will improve transit options in the greater Charlotte area and offer faster, more convenient access to downtown. Secretary Foxx was joined by Charlotte Mayor Jennifer Roberts, Mayor Pro Tem Vi Lyles, and other state and local officials.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 14, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - The Zion Scenic Drive is closed just north of the Zion Lodge. At approximately 6 p.m. Friday night, a large rock and debris slide occurred just north of the Grotto covering both lanes on the Scenic Drive. The slide was about the size of four car lengths, (approximately 200 tons of rock and debris) covering both lanes, and making it impassable by vehicle. No one was injured in the incident.
