News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Desiree Ulibarri, 31, of Albuquerque, pleaded guilty today in federal court to federal prescription opioid conspiracy charges. The plea agreement recommends that she be sentenced to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 57 months followed by a term of supervised release to be determined...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: The Ranking Members of four congressional committees today announced a letter requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) look into evidence that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was improperly lobbying Congress to support the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a clear misuse...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Patricia M. Ferrick, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal jury in New Haven has found MACKENZY NOZE, 32, and JONAS JOSEPH, 33, also known as...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that GARRETT J. CARTER, also known as “Little Man," 30, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 70 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing PCP.
By State Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today at 2:45 p.m., the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific will convene a hearing entitled “Renewing Assurances: Strengthening U.S.-Taiwan Ties." Live webcast and witness testimony will be available HERE.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington, Ky. man, who previously admitted to bribing a former public official, was sentenced today to 65 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: The United States announces that it has settled claims under the False Claims Act with Magdiel Garcia and MAK Healthcare PC d/b/a Multicare Plus for improperly billing Medicare in violation of the Stark Law prohibition against self-referrals.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee business meeting on the reappointment of the Honorable Kristine Svinicki, to serve as a member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Greenville - Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and United States Attorney John Stuart Bruce announced that eight current and former law enforcement officers, four correctional officers and two other individuals have been sentenced for their...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Every engineer in the melter group at the Defense Waste Processing Facility (DWPF) knew who was about to visit the Savannah River Site (SRS).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: The Ranking Members of four congressional committees today announced a letter requesting the Government Accountability Office (GAO) look into evidence that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was improperly lobbying Congress to support the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a clear misuse...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today advanced three bills to the full committee for consideration that modernize the nation’s environmental laws and energy infrastructure.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Environment Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL), today advanced three bills to the full committee for consideration that modernize the nation’s environmental laws and energy infrastructure.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Beaver County, Pennsylvania, was sentenced in federal court to 135 months imprisonment, followed by 20 years supervised release, and $1,000.00 in restitution, on a charge of Distribution of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Adrian Smith (R-NE) led Members of the Ways and Means Committee and Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael Burgess (R-TX) in introducing legislation to extend funding for the federal Maternal, Infant,...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Rebecca Smith (46, Spring Hill) today pleaded guilty to mail fraud. She faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT. - This summer, Glacier National Park and Flathead National Forest are expanding visitor use monitoring efforts to better understand use along the Middle Fork and North Fork of the Flathead Wild and Scenic River.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Kyle Gordon, age 29, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Sylvia H. Rambo to 75 months’ imprisonment for Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin and Possession of a Weapon in Furtherance of Drug Trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: PEORIA, Ill. - Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Shadid today ordered David C. Turner, 43, of Pekin, Ill., to serve 20 years (240 months) in federal prison for child pornography crimes. Turner pled guilty to receiving and possessing child pornography in December 2016 and January 2017, six months after serving 21 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for offenses including child pornography, aggravated kidnapping and solicitation for murder.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - EM Associate Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Field Operations Stacy Charboneau outlined several initiatives underway or planned to reduce costs and direct more resources to cleanup during the Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG) annual meeting June 8.
