News from February 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following reports that the Trump Administration is considering approving Medicaid waivers that would implement lifetime limits on health care coverage...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on Feb. 1, 2018, a federal grand jury in Hartford returned an indictment charging ENRIQUE FAJARDO MARIN, 39, a citizen of Ecuador recently residing in Danbury, with one count of illegally reentering the U.S., and one count of violating the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Two illegal aliens residing in Pharr have entered guilty pleas to conspiring to interfere with commerce by threats or violence and to carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Susan Blaue, 39, of Bridgewaters Corners, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to two years of probation following her guilty plea to a federal forgery charge. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III also ordered that Blaue serve three months of home confinement, perform 100 hours of community service and pay restitution totaling $94,736.20.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today following news reports that Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt will ask the National Marine Fisheries Service to reconsider a decision it made earlier this year that the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos jeopardizes endangered salmon...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Mingo Junction, Ohio man was indicted today by a federal grand jury on counterfeit currency charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - United States Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina announced that KIMBERLY RUSSELL HOBSON, 46, of Kernersville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Winston-Salem before the Honorable Thomas D. Schroeder to felony charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: For Distribution Of Heroin. HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Corey Taylor, 35, of Gary, IN, was sentenced on February 6, 2018 by District Court Judge Jon E. DeGuilio to 57 months imprisonment for Distribution of Heroin. The...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - Lone Oak Middle School won DOE’s West Kentucky Regional Science Bowl Feb. 2 during competition among 20 middle school teams.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Derrick W. Johnson, 22, Madison, Wis., was found guilty yesterday of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. The jury reached its verdict after less than three hours of deliberation, following one day of testimony in U.S. District Court in Madison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Integral Consulting Services, Inc. has agreed to pay the United States $505,838.00 to settle False Claims Act allegations that it submitted false claims to the United States by inflating certain indirect cost rates in connection with work performed on a Department of the Army contract.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - VICTOR QUIROS, a/k/a Jay Lozano, 26, a resident of Oklahoma City, has been sentenced to a prison term of 172 months, announced Robert J. Troester, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Orange, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme that defrauded New Jersey banks out of $1.5 million by deceiving them into crediting certain customer accounts that were controlled by members of the conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: An employee of a Coral Springs addiction treatment center pled guilty to his role in obstructing an ongoing healthcare fraud investigation in Federal Court today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to fund the government, by a vote of 245-182. A number of important health care provisions were also included in the bill, including the permanent repeal of the Medicare therapy caps and funding for Community Health Centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
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By Commerce Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders today held a press conference to provide an update on their ongoing investigation into alleged pill dumping in the state of West Virginia. The leaders spoke to continued stonewalling by the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ), despite numerous requests for basic information.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: In Austin today, a federal grand jury indicted 44-year-old Terry Allen Miles in connection with the kidnapping of two minors, announced United States Attorney John F. Bash, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Angelina L. Cedeno, age 35, of Troy, New York, pled guilty today to distributing heroin in Albany County.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 6, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - Seventy-five years ago in January, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves, director of the Manhattan Project, selected the Hanford Site in Washington state as a plutonium production site. Since the site’s inception, activities at Hanford have often had historical significance, including in this era of environmental cleanup.
