News from December 2018
By DOE Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Energy, chaired by Rep. Fred Upton (R-MI), announced a hearing for Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2018 at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Public Private Partnerships for Federal Energy Management."
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -The Subcommittee on Health, chaired by Rep. Michael Burgess M.D. (R-TX), announced a hearing for Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2018 at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Implementing the 21st Century Cures Act: An Update from the Office of the National Coordinator."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Ou Vern Saeteurn, 23, of Sacramento, charging him with possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine and possessing two firearms in furtherance of his drug crimes, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, today applauded U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue for publishing the Child Nutrition Programs: Flexibilities for Milk, Whole Grains, and Sodium Requirements final rule. This rule solidifies regulatory flexibility for the National School Lunch Program, the School Breakfast Program, and other federal child nutrition programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Joseph Lee King, 59, from Peshawbestown (Leelanau County), Michigan, was sentenced to 48 months in federal prison for Domestic Assault - Habitual Offender, U.S. Attorney Andrew Byerly Birge announced today. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Maloney imposed a 2-year term of supervised release that will commence once King is released from imprisonment.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Yesterday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), joined by 18 of their colleagues, sent a letter to Dr. Scott Gottlieb, Commissioner of the Food...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2018
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - A superseding criminal bill of indictment was returned on December 4, 2018, by a federal grand jury, charging Derek Shawn Pendergraft, 21, of Asheville, N.C., with one count of first degree murder and two counts of aggravated sexual abuse resulting in the death of his Pisgah Inn co-worker, Sara Ellis, announced Andrew Murray, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Pendergraft was previously charged with second degree murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal grand jury in Atlanta has returned an indictment charging Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammed Mehdi Shah Mansouri with committing a sophisticated ransomware attack on the City of Atlanta in March 2018 in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: Today, Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker issued the following statement on the National Day of Mourning for President George H.W. Bush: "President George H.W. Bush was a patriot who dedicated his life to serving this great nation," Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker said. "As President, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: A federal jury in New York City today convicted the head of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) based in Hong Kong and Virginia on seven counts for his participation in a multi-year, multimillion-dollar scheme to bribe top officials of Chad and Uganda in exchange for business advantages for a Chinese ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: Defendants Bragged About the Potency of Their Heroin Referring to it as “Fever" and “Fire".
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: Anil J. Desai, M.D., East Metro Internal Medicine, L.L.C. and Rockdale-Newton Hematology-Oncology (the “Desai Parties"), based in Conyers and Covington, Georgia, have agreed to pay $213,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting claims to Medicare and Medicaid for drugs that were never provided to their patients, and for drugs that had not received final marketing approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA").
By Interior Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: Luray, VA - Artists are encouraged to apply for the 2019 Artist-in-Residence Program at Shenandoah National Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - On Nov. 13, 2018, Scott Allan Maasen, of Scottsdale, Ariz., was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge David Campbell to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Maasen also was ordered to pay nearly $1.4 million in restitution to the United States Small Business Administration. Maasen had previously pleaded guilty to one count of concealment of assets in bankruptcy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: Former Head of Organization Backed by Chinese Energy Conglomerate Convicted of International Bribery, Money Laundering Offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: Macon - Two former bank tellers entered guilty pleas to one count of Conspiracy to Defraud a Financial Institution in federal court Tuesday, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Both Vicky Martin, 60, of Buckhead (Morgan County), and Brandy Mize, 42, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal grand jury in Atlanta has returned an indictment charging Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammed Mehdi Shah Mansouri with committing a sophisticated ransomware attack on the City of Atlanta in March 2018 in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division announced that CHI PING PATRICK HO, a/k/a “Patrick C.P. Ho," a/k/a “He Zhiping," was found guilty today after a jury trial...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: A Wooster man was indicted in federal court for attempting to induce what he believed was a 13-year-old boy to have sex with him.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 5, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, a complaint was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging seven defendants for their participation in an opioid distribution ring operating in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Hawaii. Five defendants were arrested in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan this...
