News from September 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: Payments Resolve Allegations Highlighted in DOJ Civil Complaint And Recently Unsealed Whistleblower Actions.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-PA) today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt regarding the agency’s plan to offer employee buyouts and early retirement incentives.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that DAVID KEITH, a/k/a “David Wright," a/k/a “David Lee Keith," a/k/a “David Lee," a/k/a “Lee David," was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 168 years in prison on five counts stemming from his...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: URBANA, Ill. - Roy Collins, former executive director of the Kankakee Valley Park District, entered pleas of guilty this afternoon to defrauding the park district and a related not-for-profit organization for his personal benefit. Collins appeared before U.S. District Judge Colin S. Bruce, who scheduled sentencing on Jan. 19, 2018. Collins was allowed to remain on bond.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - The 2017 wildland fire season in southeastern Arizona was about as hot and intense as the flames firefighters battled throughout the summer. The numbers are staggering: 335 fires burning approximately 175,132 acres on the lands protected by the Southeast Zone Interagency Partnership. That accounts for nearly 44% of all the acres burned in Arizona this season.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: Pharmaceutical Manufacturer Novo Nordisk Inc. will pay $58.65 million to resolve allegations that the company failed to comply with the FDA-mandated Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) for its Type II diabetes medication Victoza, the Justice Department announced today. The resolution includes...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - After Labor Day weekend, Zion National Park starts to wind down operations hours and programs. Beginning September 5, 2017, the following time changes and closures are in effect.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), announced that Matt Leggett will serve as chief counsel of the committee's majority staff.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that PAUL MOTT, 29, of Groton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: Skagway - Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park has launched new virtual reality tours of park buildings. Now you can explore some of Skagway’s most significant historic buildings from home. Enjoy a stroll through the park museum, experience the fascinating Jeff. Smiths Parlor Museum, and see how a pioneer family lived at the Moore House. Guided, audio-described tours are included.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Affiliated home health entities Home Health Care of East Tennessee, Inc.; Home Health Care of West Tennessee, Inc.; Home Health Care Services, Inc.; Home Health Care Services II, Inc.; Health Care Staffing of Tennessee, Inc.; and Home Health Care Support Services, Inc. (collectively “Home Health") have agreed to pay the United States $1,800,000, to settle False Claims Act liability. Each of the Home Health entities is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Ranking Member Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-Mass) today released the following statement about the U.S.-Korea trade agreement...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017, to discuss health care. The hearing, “Health Care: Issues Impacting Cost and Coverage" will occur at 10 a.m. in Dirksen Senate Office Building, Room 215.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The co-owner of a trash company was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with defrauding the operator of the Fall River Landfill out of approximately $463,000 in disposal fees.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 4, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release FEMA News Desk Phone: 202-646-3272 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its federal partners continue the coordinated federal response to Hurricane Harvey. Life-saving efforts continue in some areas, especially around Beaumont, Texas, where there are still evacuations.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 4, 2017
News Release: For Immediate Release FEMA News Desk Phone: 202-646-3272 WASHINGTON — To support the ongoing disaster recovery in Texas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is enhancing the flood insurance claims process and extending the grace period for paying policy renewal premiums for insured survivors affected by Hurricane Harvey.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 2017 -- Families participating in USDA’s Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) in hurricane-stricken Texas will have an easier time finding WIC-approved foods for mothers and their children thanks to food-package flexibilities approved Sunday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta released the following statement to commemorate Labor Day: “Labor Day is the one day a year that we set aside to honor the men and women who work every day to make this nation great. At the Department of Labor, we have the great privilege of engaging with the greatest workforce in the world, the American workforce.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today announced the committee will mark up nominations for the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, Sept. 6 at 10 a.m., in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By State Newswire | Sep 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
