News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A former U.S. Postal Service employee pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to fraudulently obtaining worker’s compensation for medical travel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: A Cleveland man was indicted on child pornography charges, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. announced today that Gregory Gibbons, 51, of Pleasantville, N.Y., pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud affecting a financial institution, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A member of the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and general foreman for a Port Elizabeth terminal operator was arrested this morning for fraudulently collecting a nearly $500,000 annual salary, much of which was for work he never performed, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations mark-up of the FY18 Agriculture Appropriation Bill...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ALFRED DENNISON, a/k/a “Uncle," age 58, of Georgia, was sentenced yesterday for his role in a conspiracy to import cocaine from Roatan, Honduras, to the United States via cruise ships.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Former Otsego County Undersheriff Sentenced for Possession and Sale of Stolen Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: AlphaBay, the Largest Online 'Dark Market,' Shut Down.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Legacy Management (LM) is currently working toward achieving goals and milestones it established in its third high performing organization (HPO) proposal plan. The current plan covers the period from FY 2017 to FY 2021. The HPO is an internal planning document...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry, today issued the following statement regarding recent announcements of nominees to fill key Senate-confirmed leadership roles at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston-area physician was arrested and charged with securities fraud for allegedly trading on inside information he learned from his wife, who worked at a Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) introduced the Viewer Protection Act, (H.R. __), which would establish a Viewer Protection Fund to fully protect broadcast viewers and expeditiously get new mobile broadband spectrum into the hands of consumers. The...
By EPA Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining 11 bipartisan bills that would improve Medicare.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has accepted a request from lawmakers, led by Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), to review the Environmental Protection Agency's process for selecting federal advisory committee members.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing titled, “Examining Bipartisan Legislation to Improve the Medicare Program:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed H.R. 218, the “King Cove Road Land Exchange Act" (Rep. Don Young, R-AK), legislation to facilitate a life-saving road for the isolated community of King Cove, Alaska. The bill passed by a bipartisan vote of 248-179.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Antonio Sanes-Carmona, 45, of St. Croix, was sentenced yesterday to 57 months in prison, five years of supervised release and a fine of $1,000 for possession of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced. District Court Chief Judge Wilma A. Lewis also ordered Sanes-Carmona to pay a $100 special assessment.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: A Canton man was indicted on child pornography charges, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing titled, “Examining Bipartisan Legislation to Improve the Medicare Program:"
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) today released the following statement after the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a score of Senate Republicans’ updated health care bill...
