News from February 2018
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: As the opioid epidemic continues to devastate communities across the nation, top House Democratic health leaders have requested that insurance companies offering Medicare Advantage and Part D plans provide information that will help legislators more fully understand the scope of the crisis and more effectively...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: FBI Seeking Information on a Second Bank Robbery in Fort Lauderdale on Friday.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: As the opioid epidemic continues to devastate communities across the nation, top House Democratic health leaders have requested that insurance companies offering Medicare Advantage and Part D plans provide information that will help legislators more fully understand the scope of the crisis and more effectively...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, couple was charged today for their respective roles in a food stamps fraud scheme, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Acting Director Mick Mulvaney today requesting an investigation into the widespread submission of fake public comments during consideration of the payday lending rule. Pallone has...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Marie E. Sherrill, 57, of Porterville, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Dale A. Drozd to four years in prison for wire fraud and tax fraud, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced. She was also ordered to pay more than $1.3 million in restitution to the fraud victims and $255,900 to the IRS.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: SPRINGDALE, UT - The body of a female visitor was discovered in Refrigerator Canyon along the West Rim Trail around just before 5:00 p.m. Monday, February 5, 2018. Park Law Enforcement was dispatched to secure the scene, and a search and rescue team was assembled to recover the woman’s body.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: “Freedom Fighter Bandit" Arrested. UPDATE-Nilsa Marie Urena, age 25, has been taken into custody in Tennessee. Urena was arrested shortly after she robbed the Upper Cumberland Federal Credit Union near Nashville at about 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2018. ATLANTA-David J. LeValley, special agent...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - This week, the House of Representatives will consider a Continuing Resolution (CR) that will contain provisions to extend funding for a number of Medicare extenders and critical public health programs, including Community Health Centers. The CR also includes a number of Energy and Commerce health priorities.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Defendant Pursued Images of Child Rape even after Criminal Prosecution in State Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, before United States Magistrate Judge Kimberly A. Swank, DAQUANJRA TASHA WHITE, 28, of Fayetteville, pled guilty to one count of Sex Trafficking of Children.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By EPA Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Acting Director Mick Mulvaney today requesting an investigation into the widespread submission of fake public comments during consideration of the payday lending rule. Pallone has...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Former Silicon Valley CEO Pleads Guilty to Defrauding Employees of Tech Company Start-Up.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man, and a Harrisburg, South Dakota, man have been indicted by a federal grand jury for Transportation of Explosive Materials and Possession of Explosives by a Prohibited Person.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: A California resident and an Ohio resident pled guilty last week to federal charges involving their participation in trafficking over fifteen kilograms of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Vahan Kelerchian, 58, of Richboro, Pennsylvania, doing business as Armament Services International “ASI", was sentenced before Senior District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen for his role in the acquisition of machineguns and restricted laser aiming sights.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today announced a series of hearings related to President Trump’s federal budget request. Below is a full list of confirmed hearing dates and witnesses. The President’s request is expected to be released on Feb. 12, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: Investigators utilized drug dog and undercover officer to seize heroin and catch defendant red-handed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that BASIN WELLS, age 30, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty to both counts of the indictment charging him, respectively, in count 1 with conspiracy to possess heroin with the intent to distribute and in count 2 with with possession of heroin with intent to distribute.
