News from February 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Update: FBI Seeks Public’s Help Finding Fugitive Wanted for Murder.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Guy William Sheneman, age 61, of Weleetka, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment, $100,000 fine and 3 years supervised release for Health Care Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1347.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), joined with Sens. Deb Fischer (R-NE), Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Pat Roberts (R-KS), Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Chris Coons (D-DE), and Tom Carper (D-DE) to introduce the Fair Agricultural Reporting Method (FARM) Act.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection hearing on “Oversight of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration:"
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS) today held a hearing reviewing consolidation trends in the health care sector, the reasons behind those trends, and the effects they have on the cost and quality of care.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man was sentenced to 51 months in prison for transporting fifteen kilograms of heroin hidden in a secret compartment on Christmas Eve in 2014, United States Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), attended a meeting at the White House with President Trump on the president's infrastructure plan.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on the Environment hearing titled “New Source Review Permitting Challenges for Manufacturing and Infrastructure:"
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) released the following statement after meeting with President Trump and key congressional leaders on infrastructure...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: Drug is 10,000 Times Stronger than Morphine.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection, chaired by Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH), held a hearing today continuing its record of oversight of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 14, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) to provide additional information relevant to GAO's review of the Environmental Protection ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: ELIZABETH CITY - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced today that, ERIC HALL, a Jacksonville resident, was convicted in a two-day jury trial before United States District Judge Terrance W. Boyle. The jury found HALL guilty of possession with the intent to distribute cocaine, possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime and two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced today that Pure Collection Ltd. (“Pure") and its CEO, Samantha Harrison (“Harrison"), both of Harrogate, England, have entered into civil settlement agreements with the U.S. under which they will pay a total of $908,100 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act (“FCA"). The FCA is the government’s primary civil remedy to redress false claims involving government funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months’ imprisonment, followed by 10 years’ supervised release, on a charge of receipt of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: John P. Selleck Named Special Agent in Charge of the Administrative Division for the Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: PLANO, Texas - A Plano, Texas couple has been sentenced to federal prison for making false statements to federal agents in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Alan R. Jackson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Alexandria man was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for arson after throwing Molotov cocktails and setting fire to an apartment building in Alexandria in June 2016.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded President Donald J. Trump’s selection of Naomi Earp for Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Perdue issued the following statement: “Our aim at USDA is to treat ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 13, 2018
News Release: Michaels Stores Inc. and Michaels Stores Procurement Co. Inc. (Michaels) agreed to enter into a consent decree and pay $1.5 million, the Justice Department announced today. The decree resolves allegations that Michaels failed timely to report to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) information regarding a large glass vase that injured consumers between 2007 and 2009.
