News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Michigan Real Estate Businessman Sentenced to Prison for Obstructing the Internal Revenue Laws and Bank Fraud.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, joined Senators Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to hold a roundtable titled, “Drinking Water: A Crisis in Every State." Below is Senator Carper's opening statement, as prepared for delivery...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Calvin R. Patrick, 35, of Mount Morris, NY, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 295 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was charged today in federal court in Boston with stealing the identity of a U.S. citizen from Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man was indicted today in federal court in Worcester on a federal firearms charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two Kansas City, Mo., men have been indicted, in separate cases, as part of a nationwide enforcement action related to the distribution of opioids and other dangerous narcotics.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Senate Republicans released an updated draft of the Trumpcare bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boylston man was indicted today on child pornography charges.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today advanced legislation that seeks to bring greater investment in the country’s aging drinking water infrastructure as well as facilitate compliance for our drinking water delivery systems. H.R.___, the Drinking Water System Improvement Act passed #SubEnvironment by voice vote.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: National health care fraud takedown results in charges against over 412.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Yellowstone National Park seeks comments from the public on an environmental assessment (EA) that measures the impacts of the proposed reconstruction or relocation of the Yellowstone Youth Campus.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding reports of “patient brokers" who are serving as an intermediary and profiting from recruiting patients seeking treatment for addiction. The letter, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Mr. Chairman, thanks for holding this bipartisan markup today. I hope we hold more meetings like these-this is what the American people want and expect from their members-to get things done in a bipartisan manner.
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 115...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: PLATTSBURGH, NEW YORK - Ten people have been indicted for their involvement in a heroin distribution ring operating in the Plattsburgh area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Robert David Linn, Jr., a 52-year-old resident of Great Falls, pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Linn’s plea could result in a term of life in prison and his sentence can be no less than 15 years.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Hanford Site workers are making headway preparing to safely remove contaminated soil beneath the 324 Building, about 300 yards from the Columbia River and less than a mile from Richland.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Senate Republicans released an updated draft of the Trumpcare bill...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Thursday, July 20, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining Bipartisan Legislation to Improve the Medicare Program."
By EPA Newswire | Jul 13, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regarding reports of “patient brokers" who are serving as an intermediary and profiting from recruiting patients seeking treatment for addiction. The letter, highlighting a need...
