News from October 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A partial owner of several Florida-based energy companies pleaded guilty today to foreign bribery charges for his role in a scheme to corruptly secure contracts from Venezuela’s state-owned and state-controlled energy company, Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA).
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
Release: JUNEAU, Alaska - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented new and stronger carry-on baggage security screening procedures at Juneau International Airport (JNU) and the same procedures are coming to five other airports in southeast Alaska within the next five weeks.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today held a hearing continuing its review of the 340B drug pricing program.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed S. 920, the National Clinical Care Commission Act, by voice vote. Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) authored the House companion bill, H.R. 309, which passed the House by voice vote earlier this year.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on health, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today held a “Member Day, " allowing members both on and off the Energy and Commerce Committee to share local and personal stories and highlight potential legislative solutions to combat the opioid crisis.
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: The Senate Finance Committee is committed to passing tax reform that will lead to more jobs, fairer taxes and bigger paychecks. Finance Committee members have been busy making the case for the Republican tax reform framework. Watch what they’ve been saying.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: A South Florida attorney was charged with securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering offenses in connection with a scheme to fraudulently register shell companies with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issue a class of unrestricted or “free-trading" shares in the companies that...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today held a hearing continuing its review of the 340B drug pricing program.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on, “Examining How Covered Entities Utilize the 340B Drug Pricing Program:"
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Communications and Technology Subcommittee markup of FCC reauthorization legislation...
By DOE Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on, “Examining How Covered Entities Utilize the 340B Drug Pricing Program:"
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Washington, DC -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent a letter to Secretary Ryan Zinke at the Department of the Interior requesting documents relating to the reassignment of dozens of senior employees and career civil servants, including Joel Clement, one of the Department’s top policy experts on climate change who resigned earlier this week.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today unanimously passed S. 920, the National Clinical Care Commission Act, by voice vote. Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) authored the House companion bill, H.R. 309, which passed the House by voice vote earlier this year.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, today held a hearing continuing its review of the 340B drug pricing program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Gave False Sworn Testimony About Personal and Family Expenditures.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A congressional staffer was charged today with filing a false security clearance form, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu for the District of Columbia, and Assistant Director in Charge Andrew Vale of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Project Management Oversight Entity Agrees to Pay $900,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that LAQUAN PARRISH, a/k/a “MadDog," a/k/a “Quanzaa," a leader of a violent street gang in the Bronx called the “2Fly YGz" (“2Fly"), was sentenced today to 195 months in prison on racketeering and firearms charges. PARRISH was sentenced by United States District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: A former Deputy Chief of Police for the Detroit Police Department was indicted today for bribery and conspiracy to commit bribery, in connection with the corruption of towing permits in Detroit, Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced.
By EPA Newswire | Oct 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), today held a markup on legislation to reauthorize and reform the Federal Communications Commission for the first time since 1990.
