News from May 2017
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: An Akron man pleaded guilty to shooting a woman in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park last year, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (D-TX) sent a letter to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb today urging continued implementation of the so-called deeming rule, which extended the authority of FDA to regulate all tobacco products including e-cigarettes, vape pens, cigars, and hookah.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: Urbana, Ill. - U.S. District Judge Colin S. Bruce has ordered a Champaign, Ill., man, Jerry Minnieweather, 38, to serve 15 years in federal prison for possession and distribution of cocaine and crack cocaine in 2015. Minnieweather, who appeared before Judge Bruce on May 15, was also ordered to remain on supervised release for eight years following completion of his prison sentence.
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today announced the Committee will mark up The Creating High-Quality Results and Outcomes Necessary to Improve Chronic (CHRONIC) Care Act of 2017, on Thursday, May 18, in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building at 10:00 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On May 12, 2017, Frank Moises Torres, age 31, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge Robert W. Pratt to 120 months in prison for conspiring to distribute methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Torres will also be required to serve a five-year term of supervised release following his imprisonment.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), former Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump announced...
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: ANDERSONVILLE, Georgia -Brigadier General David Lesperance, Armor School Commandant at the U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, will present the keynote address at the Memorial Day Observance Ceremony to be held in Andersonville National Cemetery at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 28. Brigadier General...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: An Akron man pleaded guilty to shooting a woman in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park last year, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Elizabeth, New Jersey, man today admitted possessing a shotgun, a rifle, and two handguns despite being a previously convicted felon, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that today United States District Judge Rosanna Malouf Peterson sentenced.
By DOL Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today released the following statement in response to a letter from Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Tom Price seeking to restructure the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) user fee program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: Joon Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Darcel D. Clark, the Bronx County District Attorney, Angel M. Melendez, Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (“HSI"), and James...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAVED CHOUDHRY, 59, of Glastonbury, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to conspiracy and tax offenses related to a kickback scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Henry Lamon Spruiell, 46, of Arlington, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to serve 24 months in federal prison following his guilty plea in January 2017 to one count of using an unauthorized access device, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), has announced it will markup the FDA Reauthorization Act of 2017 on Thursday, May 18, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: On May 16, 2017, Acting Director Christy Jackiewicz from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) presented the DOE Office of Legacy Management (LM) with a Federal Small Business Achievement of the Year Award (non-Facility Management Contractor...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A long-time Smith County Precinct One Constable has pleaded guilty to federal criminal tax violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - For the second time in two weeks, the United States this afternoon filed a complaint against UnitedHealth Group Inc. that alleges the company knowingly obtained inflated risk adjustment payments based on untruthful and inaccurate information about the health status of beneficiaries enrolled in UnitedHealth’s Medicare Advantage Plans throughout the United States.
By EPA Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), today announced a hearing for Tuesday, May 23, 2017, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Disrupter Series: Delivering to Consumers."
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that an Independence, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine in Boone, Cooper, Lafayette and Jackson counties.
