News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor with offices in Paterson, New Jersey, Passaic, New Jersey, and Elizabeth, New Jersey, today admitted defrauding Medicare and private insurance companies out of $3 million by billing for more than 150,000 physical therapy sessions that were performed by unlicensed and unqualified personnel, Acting U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two women today admitted their roles in a conspiracy that fraudulently obtained over $24 million from the Post-9/11 GI Bill, a federal education benefits program designed to help veterans who served in the armed forces following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Kendell Rashad Bowden, 26, of Charlotte, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr. to 66 months in prison and three years of supervised release for bank fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: A Painesville man was indicted for having more than 100 grams of fentanyl, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday: Building a Digital Defense Against Nigerian 419 Scams.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: MCDONOUGH, GA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Structural Subcontractors Service, LLC for exposing workers to fall hazards. The structural framing company, based in Birmingham, Alabama, faces proposed penalties totaling $102,669.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A California man pleaded guilty today to drug trafficking charges related to his role in a conspiracy to distribute large quantities of crystal meth.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: The Defendant Pointed His Firearm at a Police Officer at the Scene.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Discussed civil laws that protect the rights of military personnel.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: MONROE TOWNSHIP, NJ - A South Jersey construction company owner with a long history of workplace safety violations was cited by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for exposing workers to serious scaffold hazards at a job site in Philadelphia. The owner, Vyacheslav Leshko faces $191,215 in proposed penalties.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: The Energy Department today announced six new contracts totaling $1.49 million awarded by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory under the DOE-funded Distributed Wind Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP). Since 2013, the CIP has awarded 22 competitively-selected, cost-shared contracts to 12 different...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today called on Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to explain the fate of approximately $400,000 in funding for a recently canceled study on the public health impacts of mountaintop removal mining, a destructive coal extraction process known to...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Energy and Commerce Committee today announced a hearing before the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee for Tuesday, Oct. 24, 2017, at 10 a.m. in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Examining HHS’s Public Health Preparedness for and Response to the 2017 Hurricane Season."
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Top House and Senate Democratic health leaders demanded that the Trump Administration provide Congress with documents used to justify the Administration’s decision to terminate the cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments, including any analyses of the decision’s impact on consumer health insurance costs, access to health insurance, and federal spending, in letters sent today to the President and Health and Human Services Acting Secretary Eric D. Hargan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: SHAWN ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant SHIH YA HUNG aka ANGIE, age 35, from Taiwan, was sentenced today in District Court to a two (2) year term of probation, 50 hours of community service, and must report to a duly authorized immigration official to determine whether deportation proceedings are appropriate.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - At today’s Senate HELP Committee hearing to address prescription drug prices, Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) delivered the following opening statement calling on her colleagues to build on their efforts in the FDA Reauthorization Act and consider new measures put forth by Democrats...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai made his first comments in defense of the First Amendment nearly a week after President Donald Trump threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of TV networks he dislikes...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina----United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Columbia, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Top House and Senate Democratic health leaders demanded that the Trump Administration provide Congress with documents used to justify the Administration’s decision to terminate the cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments, including any analyses of the decision’s impact on consumer health insurance costs, access to health insurance, and federal spending, in letters sent today to the President and Health and Human Services Acting Secretary Eric D. Hargan.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 17, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai made his first comments in defense of the First Amendment nearly a week after President Donald Trump threatened to revoke the broadcast licenses of TV networks he dislikes...
