News from November 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Tampa Special Agent in Charge (SAC) office graduated the first HSI Tampa Citizens’ Academy.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Environment markup of “H.R.1119, the “Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment Act (SENSE) Act of 2017;" H.R. 1917, the “Blocking Regulatory...
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: November is Critical Infrastructure Month, and each week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is highlighting our work in a specific sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Inland Empire woman who ran a home health agency that paid more than $1.25 million in illegal kickbacks for referrals of Medicare patients has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has announced its 2018 funding opportunity for Phase I of the Cooperative Watershed Management Program. This funding opportunity is seeking proposals for activities to develop a watershed group, complete watershed restoration planning activities, and to design watershed management projects.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
Release: BALTIMORE - The number of passengers expected to fly this Thanksgiving season is expected to be high with more than 2.4 million passengers per day expected to pass through Transportation Security Administration (TSA) checkpoints nationwide each day leading up to Thanksgiving, including anywhere between...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A cardiologist with a practice in Paterson, New Jersey, and his wife pleaded guilty today to their involvement in a test-referral bribe scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative Which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: FBI Increases Reward in Hunt for Sex Trafficking Suspect.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today urging the FCC to take immediate action to protect the High-Cost Fund against flagrant abuse of federal funds.
By EPA Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today sent a letter to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) regarding imported and domestic illicit fentanyl, that when manufactured using pill presses, can make thousands of pills an hour. Signing the letter was: Energy and Commerce...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today urging the FCC to take immediate action to protect the High-Cost Fund against flagrant abuse of federal funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury returned a superseding indictment today charging Maryland State Senator Nathaniel Thomas Oaks, age 71, of Baltimore, Maryland, with obstruction of justice. Oaks had agreed to cooperate with the FBI by recording his conversations with the target of a new investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Shreveport mental health facility administrator was sentenced Tuesday to 26 months in prison for taking part in a kickback scheme.
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 15, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held the hearing, “Promoting American Leadership in Reducing Air Emissions Through Innovation." Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
By State Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today approved bipartisan legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), both members of the committee, to review and improve the accountability and effectiveness of U.S. participation in international organizations.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - A Buckhannon, West Virginia woman has admitted to her participation in a methamphetamine distribution operation, United States Attorney William J. Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Geraldo Ramos, age 44, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Nov. 13, 2017, before United States Magistrate Judge Martin C. Carlson to a two count information charging him with conspiracy to submit false claims and submitting false claims against the United States regarding income tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 14, 2017
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday-Digital Defense Against Business E-mail Compromise.
