News from July 2017
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Las Colonias Park amphitheater formally opened July 6, 2017, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by more than 100 citizens, elected officials, and government agency representatives. The ceremony celebrated the park's origins and its evolution into a community asset. Dr. April Gil, manager of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that Karen Hill, the former Insys Therapeutics Regional Manager for the southeastern United States, has pled guilty to conspiring to pay illegal kickbacks to doctors in exchange for their prescribing the instant-release fentanyl drug Subsys.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham, Alabama man to 20 years in prison for distributing fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid painkiller, that caused the death of a 20-year-old Pelham woman, announced DEA Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge Bret Hamilton and Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: The Honorable Betsy DeVos. Secretary. U.S. Department of Education. 400 Maryland Avenue, SW. Washington, D.C. 20202. Dear Secretary DeVos, I am extremely troubled that you may be preparing to change the U.S. Department of Education (ED) guidance[1] on compliance with Title IX of the Education Amendments...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office; Shimon R. Richmond, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Miami Regional Office...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: “One of the things that makes Americans charming and delightful is that we are not a jealous people. When we see our neighbors succeed, we think ‘How nice for them.’ That’s because we know that with hard work that could be us, or that could be our children. Unfortunately, this basic premise of the American dream - that anyone with a good idea and hard work can start a successful business - is under attack, in part, from an antiquated and bloated tax code.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two Atlantic County, New Jersey, men were each given multi-year prison sentences for their participation in a nearly three-year conspiracy to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine in the Atlantic City, New Jersey area, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Benjamin G. Greenberg, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida; George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office; Shimon R. Richmond, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Miami Regional Office...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Birmingham man to 20 years in prison for distributing fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid painkiller, that caused the death of a 20-year-old Pelham woman, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant Special Agent in Charge Bret Hamilton.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANTHONY REDDICK, a/k/a “Ant Flocka," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to his involvement in the “Young Gunnaz" or “YGz" gang by participating in the murder of Moises Lora, 16, during which...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A Honduran man illegally present in the United States was sentenced to time served, one year of supervised release and a special assessment of $100 on a felony charge of illegal use of a Social Security number Wednesday for fraudulently using a U.S. citizen’s identity to obtain a Louisiana identity card. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) investigated the case.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Chicago man was found guilty of conspiracy to manufacture and distribute marijuana following a four-day jury trial in federal court in Rockford.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that two doctors who have operated a medical practice in Norwalk have been charged by federal criminal complaint with writing prescriptions outside the scope of legitimate medical practice, health care fraud and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that two Nebraska men were indicted on July 12, 2017 for conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, four counts of interference with commerce by robbery, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence and discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price, M.D., announced today the largest ever health care fraud enforcement action by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force, involving 412 charged defendants across 41 federal districts, including over...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House Ways and Means Committee today announced the witnesses testifying before the Tax Policy Subcommittee on Thursday, July 13, at a hearing entitled “How Tax Reform Will Help America’s Small Businesses Grow and Create New Jobs.".
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: When the bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon in April 2013, thousands of miles away in Denver, Colorado, Gabe Martinez knew immediately that the lives of those injured would never be the same.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: 2017 marks the sixth year that Cape Cod National Seashore has hosted bike safety events to help reduce the occurrence and severity of bike accidents in the national seashore, and to promote the National Park Service “Healthy Parks Healthy People" initiative. These events, which are hosted by the national...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for a firearm offense and using a false social security number.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM’s Richland Operations Office Volpentest Hazardous Materials Management and Emergency Response (HAMMER) Federal Training Center, hosted more than 80 Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) personnel attending a three-day construction safety workshop. The training included safety-related topics such as material handling, first responder, mask fitting, and forklift operation.
