News from December 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the FBI, and Artie DeLaneuville, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG), announced the guilty plea today of Jennifer Sorenson, 41, of McKinney, Texas, to conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Washington D.C. - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is seeking proposals from small businesses to address homeland security technology needs as part of the DHS Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) 19.1 Solicitation. The new solicitation contains 10 topic descriptions from two DHS organizations, eight from the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and two from the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) Office.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, delivered a floor speech urging a lone Republican Senate to drop his obstruction to Chai Feldblum’s nomination to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Over...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Salvadoran national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for unlawfully possessing a firearm and illegal reentry the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - Seven Chicago-area residents are among nine individuals arrested in the United States and Nigeria as part of an international investigation into online “romance scams" and “mystery shopper" schemes.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) and Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) sent a letter to several Trump Administration cabinet members and officials demanding information regarding the New York Times ...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: With roughly a million yearly visitors, there are numerous business opportunities within the boundaries of Big South Fork National River & Recreation Area and Obed Wild & Scenic River, and the National Park Service must determine what types of commercial activities are necessary and appropriate. That is to say, all commercial activities should provide high quality visitor experiences while protecting important natural, cultural, and scenic resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Lawrence man was charged today in federal court in Boston with distributing 100 grams or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: OAKLAND - David Lague was sentenced to 10 years in prison, and ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and for unlawfully distributing prescription drugs, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse, Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Chris Nielsen, and Health & Human Services, Office of Inspector General, Office of Investigations Special Agent in Charge Steven J. Ryan. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Haywood S. Gilliam, Jr., U.S. District Judge.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced this morning that it would now only require U.S. LNG exporters to report the country or countries of LNG deliveries, not country of end-use, to satisfy the DOE’s destination reporting requirement. Further, DOE announced additional efforts to streamline the reporting requirements for LNG export supply sales and contracts.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH) issued the following statement after the Senate failed to pass the bipartisan SELF DRIVE Act during the 115th Congress. This landmark legislation would have established the first national framework for the safe and innovative development of self driving cars in the U.S.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), today released a report summarizing its findings after concluding its bipartisan investigation into allegations of opioid-dumping in West Virginia. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), spent more than 18 months investigating large quantities of opioids sent to rural towns.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Cody Hiland, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, Diane Upchurch, Special Agent in Charge of the Little Rock Field Office of the FBI, and Artie DeLaneuville, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas Regional Office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General (HHS-OIG), announced the guilty plea today of Jennifer Sorenson, 41, of McKinney, Texas, to conspiring to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia today concluded an investigation into conditions at the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth, Virginia. The Justice Department concluded that there is reason to believe...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Subcommittee on Health Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed four public health bills. The bills now head to President Trump’s desk to be signed into law.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: On Dec. 18, 2018, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Battle Mountain District, began to gather and remove up to 20 excess wild burros that are damaging private property, land and crops. The excess wild burros are residing outside the Hickison HMA, located in Lander County, southeast of Austin...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, Gershon Barkany was sentenced by United States District Judge Joseph F. Bianco to 56 months’ imprisonment to be followed by three years’ supervised release for orchestrating a Ponzi scheme over four years that caused investors to lose approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man was arraigned today and ordered detained in federal custody on an indictment charging him with trafficking heroin and fentanyl, and for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO- Renato Libric, the former Chief Executive Officer of Bouxtie, Inc., was sentenced to 36 months in prison for wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Alex G. Tse and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence was handed down today by the Honorable Maxine M. Chesney, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 19, 2018
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Patrick Walker, 52, of Philadelphia, PA was convicted by a jury today of one count of bribery and one count of attempted possession with intent to distribute marijuana.
