News from December 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: Before we get to the subject of this morning’s hearing, I’d like to briefly touch on another matter. As this is likely our last committee hearing before the end of this Congress, let me begin by saying that it has been a privilege to work closely with Chairman Hatch on this committee over the past five...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A total of 16 South Texas residents have been convicted of charges including conspiracy to participate in racketeering activity involving the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas (ABT) which also involved methamphetamine distribution, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced the Bureau of Land Management has acquired lands from the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation for $1,025,000 within the Little Sheep Creek watershed in Montana. This acquisition will add nearly 1,000 acres of prime wildlife habitat and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 84 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on her conviction of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Nowlin Lee Waugh, Jr, age 35, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was sentenced to 186 months’ imprisonment and 8 years’ supervised release for Possession With Intent To Distribute Methamphetamine. Mr. Waugh’s jury trial began on Aug. 14, 2018 and concluded on Aug. 15, 2018 with the guilty verdict. Sentencing occurred following the completion of a presentence report.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: Government Intervenes in False Claims Act Lawsuit Against Sutter Health and Palo Alto Medical Foundation for Mischarging the Medicare Advantage Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Nicole Truman, 36, of Gardiner, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine base, commonly known as “crack," and fentanyl. She pled guilty on May 24, 2018.
By State Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House of Representatives passed H. Res. 1149, which recognizes that the United States-Republic of Korea alliance serves as a linchpin of regional stability and bilateral security, and exemplifies the broad and deep military, diplomatic, economic and cultural ties shared between the United States and the Republic of Korea.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A resident of McKeesport, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 2½ years in prison followed by three years of supervised release and was ordered to pay $9,570.00 in restitution on his conviction of conspiracy and passing and uttering counterfeit money, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Sierrha Frisbie, 26, of Auburn, Maine, pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In the aftermath of the deadly shooting that occurred at Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Oct. 27, 2018, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of California, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dr. Philip Dean, 62, a resident of Warren County, Missouri, was sentenced today to 40 months of imprisonment and ordered to pay restitution to the Medicare and Medicaid programs in the amount of $312,377. Dr. Dean previously pled guilty to two felony charges, illegally distributing opiate medications and making a false statement to the Medicare program, on Aug. 22, 2018. Dr. Dean was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge E. Richard Webber.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Ridgway, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on charges of violating federal laws relating to the sexual exploitation of children, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: Agriculture Committee Chairmen Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., and Rep. K. Michael Conaway, R-Texas, and Ranking Members Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., and Rep. Collin Peterson, D-Minn., today released the text of the bipartisan, bicameral 2018 Farm Bill conference report.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - The former owner of a Chicago medical clinic admitted in federal court today that he sold opioid prescriptions to patients whom he knew lacked a legitimate medical need for the drugs.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the President’s threat to shut down the government to blackmail Congress for wall funding...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Brian D. Boyle Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced that Nicole Truman, 36, of Gardiner, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 70 months in prison and three years of supervised release for conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine base, commonly known as “crack," and fentanyl. She pled guilty on May 24, 2018.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: NOAA’s annual report card on the Arctic, released today at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting in Washington, D.C., measures the changing climate of the polar region including warmer air and ocean temperatures and declines in sea-ice that are driving shifts in animal habitats.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that United States District Judge William H. Steele sentenced Daryl Dewayne Struggs, 35, a resident of Selma, Alabama, to imprisonment for eighty-four months for being a felon in possession of a firearm. As part...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2018
News Release: DAYTON -Matthew Jones, 44, of Kettering, Ohio, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to two counts of producing child pornography.
