News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bergen County, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 25 months in prison for her role in conspiring to deposit more than $1 million in fraudulent checks into different bank accounts, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, Senator Tom Carper (D. Del.), in his first hearing as the most senior Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, pressed Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, President-elect Trump's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), on his ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Kovachevich this week sentenced six individuals for their roles in wide-ranging racketeering and drug distribution conspiracies that involved seven murders, three kidnappings, multiple firearms and drug offenses, and related criminal conduct. The defendants were found guilty on September 8, 2016, following a three-month jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that that LISA LANDMAN, 48, of Redding, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to three months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for embezzling more than $400,000 from her employer. Judge Bolden also ordered LANDMAN to serve the first six months of her supervised release in home confinement.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - As Obamacare approaches its seventh birthday, Congress has more questions than answers about the president’s signature law. Last March, we highlighted some of our own birthday wishes for the failed law (spoiler alert: they haven’t come true).
By USDA Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced the appointment of 163 producers and five importers to the 2017 National Pork Producers Delegate Body. The appointees were selected from nominees submitted by state pork producer associations and importer groups and will serve a 1-year term.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: The FAA has issued additional flight restrictions in and around Washington, DC on January 20 from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON D.C. - Costco Wholesale will pay $11.75 million to settle allegations that its pharmacies violated the Controlled Substances Act when they improperly filled prescriptions for controlled substances. The settlement resolves allegations that Costco pharmacies filled prescriptions that were incomplete, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - An Olive Hill, Ky., man, who previously admitted that he possessed thousands of images and hundreds of videos containing child pornography, has been sentenced to 11 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A 64-year-old Grand Prairie, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to commit bank fraud and perjury in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 40-year-old Daisetta, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child exploitation violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Costco Wholesale will pay $11.75 million to settle allegations that its pharmacies violated the Controlled Substances Act when they improperly filled prescriptions for controlled substances. The settlement resolves allegations that Costco pharmacies filled prescriptions that were incomplete...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Ernest Schaeffer, age 40, of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Jan. 17, 2017, by a federal grand jury for methamphetamine trafficking and possessing firearms in connection with drug trafficking.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report highlighting the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) insufficient progress implementing the encounter data system, a critical component of administering proper Medicare Advantage payments. The...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced that the Energy and Commerce Committee’s formal organizational meeting for the 115th Congress will take place Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, at 1 p.m. in room 2167 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: BOISE, ID - Wild horses will be available for adoption on Jan.19, 20 and 21 at the BLM Boise District Wild Horse Corrals, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. The corrals are located just off Pleasant Valley Road in south Boise. The available horses range in age from 2-7 years and hail from herd management areas in California, Idaho, Nevada and Oregon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Cameron E. Korth, age 20, was arrested by the FBI on Jan. 17, 2017, for Maliciously Conveying False Information after a note was found on a United flight from San Diego, California to Denver, Colorado, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and FBI Special Agent in Charge Calvin Shivers announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge James D. Whittemore has sentenced Dario Renteria-Garcia (41, Colombia, South America) to 18 years in federal prison for conspiring with others to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine on board a vessel subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. He pleaded guilty on Oct. 24, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: JAN. 18, 2017 - The U.S. Census Bureau released retail and food services sales data on Jan. 13, 2017, that included sales for the holiday season - November and December 2016. Holiday spending for total retail and food services sales, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences but not including price changes, for November and December 2016 was $935.3 billion - up 4.0 percent from the same two months in 2015 ($899.2 billion).
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) announced promotions for key members on the committee staff, after naming Jonathan Skladany as Staff Director last week...
