News from May 2017
By DOL Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) joined Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Cory Booker (D-NJ), and 42 other Senate Democrats in reintroducing historic, comprehensive federal legislation to ban discrimination against LGBTQ Americans. Despite major advances in equality...
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Natural Resources Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) sent a letter to Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke today expressing concerns over President Trump’s executive order instructing DOI to consider new oil and gas leasing...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHRISTOPHER ROSA, 33, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for using a telephone to facilitate the distribution of crack cocaine.
By DOE Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Natural Resources Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) sent a letter to Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Ryan Zinke today expressing concerns over President Trump’s executive order instructing DOI to consider new oil and gas leasing...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Natalie Orozco, 30, of Los Angeles, Calif., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. The plea agreement recommends that Orozco be sentenced to ten years of imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court. The guilty plea was announced by Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney and Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy of the DEA’s El Paso Division.
By Commerce Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) offered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing titled, “Combating Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Medicaid’s Personal Care Services Program:"
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: MOOSE, WY - Opening and closing dates for seasonally operated facilities in Grand Teton National Park and the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Memorial Parkway are as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Dwayne Cunningham, 49, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court to a methamphetamine trafficking charge. Cunningham’s plea agreement includes a recommendation that he be sentenced to 60 months of imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN - David Kel Baldwin, Jr., 45, of Watersmeet, Michigan was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury, Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney ordered Baldwin...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Quest Diagnostics Inc. has agreed to pay $6 million to resolve a lawsuit by the United States alleging that Berkeley HeartLab Inc., of Alameda, California, violated the False Claims Act by paying kickbacks to physicians and patients to induce the use of Berkeley for blood testing services...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Louis Frances Bradley, age 66, of Baltimore, Maryland today to 35 years in prison, followed by a lifetime supervised release, for production of child pornography. Bradley has four previous state convictions on charges related to the sexual exploitation of children.
By USDA Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, & Forestry Ranking Member Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) today announced witnesses for the Committee’s field hearing in Frankenmuth, Mich. on the 2018 Farm Bill.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Vicksburg, MS: Vicksburg National Military Park is seeking volunteers to participate in an Adopt-A-Trail Program and will hold an information session and orientation on June 3rd in honor of National Trails Day. Volunteers will learn about the details of the Adopt-A-Trail program and the Al Scheller Hiking...
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today held a hearing examining four bills consistent with the committee’s bipartisan efforts to support the review and regulation of medical devices as part of the FDA user fee reauthorization process.
By EPA Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) offered the following remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing titled, “Examining Improvements to the Regulation of Medical Technologies:"
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that CHRISTOPHER ROSA, 33, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 21 months of imprisonment, followed by one year of supervised release, for using a telephone to facilitate the distribution of crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Spring Lake resident Jerry Lee Akers, 54, was sentenced to serve 41 months in prison for his role in defrauding furniture manufacturer Herman Miller Inc. in a vendor invoicing scheme. The Honorable Paul L. Maloney, U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Jeremy Foster, 32, of Godfrey, Illinois, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Staci M. Yandle to 60 months imprisonment for one count of receipt of child pornography. Judge Yandle also sentenced Foster to five years of supervised release to follow the imprisonment, a fine of $3,000 and a $100 special assessment.
By Interior Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: The Keweenaw National Historical Park Advisory Commission will convene for its regular quarterly meeting at 1:00pm on Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at park headquarters located on the corner of Red Jacket Road and Hwy. US-41 in Calumet.
By DOJ Newswire | May 2, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court today, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever, III, sentenced DARIUS JEROME BRADLEY, 28, of Fayetteville, NC to 204 months of imprisonment followed by 5 years of supervised release.
