News from July 2017
By EPA Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regarding localities like New York City ignoring the agency’s current authority over nutrition labeling, and instituting their own standards. The letter was signed by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. -The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will implement fire restrictions for public lands managed by the Eagle Lake and Applegate field offices in Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Sierra, Shasta and Siskiyou counties in California and in Washoe County, Nevada. The restrictions go into effect Monday, July 17, and will remain in effect until further notice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: On July 11, 2017, a Bahamian national was charged with bringing aliens into the United States at a place other than a designated port of entry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: SAVANNAH, GA: On Thursday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS") Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Pennsylvania State Police, Saxonburg Borough Police Department, Massachusetts State Police, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, and the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts are announcing that the remains of long-time fugitive Donald Eugene Webb have been recovered.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Kenneth W. Hillman, III, age 47, formerly of Dalton, Georgia, has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Rome, Georgia, to disclosure of confidential information, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1905. United States Magistrate...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: DENVER - The Bureau of Land Management and states with sage-grouse habitat have begun drafting a report responding to Secretarial Order 3353, Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation and Cooperation with Western States, signed in June by Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to support partnerships in maintaining...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Two owners of psychological services companies, one of whom was a clinical psychologist, were sentenced yesterday for their involvement in a $25.2 million Medicare fraud scheme carried out through eight companies at nursing homes in four states in the Southeastern U.S...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK - Dimitrise Lyghts, 23, of Lubbock, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 293 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in March 2017 to one count of sex trafficking of a child related to his pimping a 15-year-old girl in Lubbock, Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Mill Branch Coal, LLC, Employees Used Texting Devices to Provide Advance Notice.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Washington - The Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment will hold a hearing next week to examine the implementation the Water Resources Reform and Development Act of 2014 and the Water Resources Development Act of 2016, which was enacted as part of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (WIIN Act).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Clarence Edward Evers, Jr., also known as Bud Evers, 54, of Evergreen, Alabama, was sentenced today to 27 years in prison. Evers pled guilty in April to charges that he produced child pornography, possessed child pornography, and traveled in foreign commerce with the intent to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Settlements Bar Narco Freedom from Federal Healthcare Programs, Obtain a $50.5 Million Claim in Narco Freedom Bankruptcy, and Require Joining Hands and Haigler to Pay $300,000.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, the top-ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is calling for answers on what U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is doing to make sure Border Patrol agents have functional communications devices. McCaskill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on July 11, 2017, Phillip Finn, Jr, age 47, of Plains Township, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for stalking, making threatening interstate communications and causing malicious damage to federal property by fire.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.) urged U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to strengthen Michigan agriculture during negotiations to improve the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Take the journey up to the Marching Bears mound group with a ranger on Thursday, July 27th. Marching Bears is a late woodland mound complex that is thought to be amongst the most important preserved effigy mound groups in North America. This invigorating four mile guided interpretive hike will take approximately three hours to complete. The moderately strenuous walk will focus on the lifestyles of American Indians who built the mounds between 1250-900 years ago.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement after the FCC’s Incentive Auction Task Force announced that broadcasters have requested $2.1 billion - significantly more than the $1.75 billion set aside - to cover costs related to...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - National Park Service (NPS) Acting Director Michael T. Reynolds this week welcomed Tony Nguyen as the NPS Associate Director for Workforce and Inclusion. In this role, Nguyen leads all staffing and employee management programs for a workforce of more than 22,000 employees that serve in more than 400 national parks and offices around the nation. Nguyen began his duties on July 10, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 14, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Jersey City, New Jersey, man today admitted distributing heroin in Hoboken, New Jersey, on multiple occasions, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
