News from January 2018
By DOE Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS), Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH), and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, U.S. District Court Judge Francisco A. Besosa sentenced Bernard Díaz-Pérez to 25 years in prison for committing three carjackings, announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez. The Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the carjackings. Díaz-Pérez had plead guilty to the three carjackings on Feb. 28, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today in federal court, United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced JOHNNIE O’NEIL LEWIS, 35, of Kittrell, North Carolina to 60 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: An amino acid produced naturally in humans, swine and other species shows promise as an alternative to antibiotics and growth promoters for piglets.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Ten members of Elite Enterprise convicted, two at trial with eight pleading guilty to participating in a RICO conspiracy or related fraud counts for defrauding financial institutions and insurance companies across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Earlier today in federal court in Central Islip, Christopher Robert Grief, also known as “Mookie," was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment following his June 15, 2017 guilty plea to Receiving Child Pornography in Interstate and Foreign Commerce. The sentencing proceeding was held before United States...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) today issued the following statement following the U.S. Senate’s vote to confirm Alex Azar as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A former supervisory deputy jailer at an Eastern Kentucky detention center has entered a guilty plea to a federal charge related to his role in an unprovoked violent assault of a detainee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Dandre Dshon Evans, 34, of Biloxi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 151 months in federal prison for illegally possessing firearms as a felon, U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: TUPELO, MS: Weather depending, the Natchez Trace Parkway will conduct a prescribed fire (controlled burn) on Friday, January 26 at the Chickasaw Village site. This prescribed fire will help to restore the native prairie and reduce vegetation that could burn in a wildfire along the parkway boundary. The prescribed fire is located at.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 24, 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), delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor,in support of the nomination of R.D. James to serve as assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS --The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today sold 461.37 acres in 20 parcels for $74,623,000 during a competitive public land sale. The agency offered to sell almost 755 acres in 40 parcels, under the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act (SNPLMA). Parcels offered for sale varied in size from 1.25 to almost 189 acres and were located in the Las Vegas Valley.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today on the Senate floor urged his colleagues to support the nomination of Alex Azar to be secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Owner of Nevada Home Health Care Firm Sentenced to Prison For Employment Tax Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that MARCUS TYSON, 32, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a heroin distribution ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that an Anchorage woman was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to serve three years in federal prison for embezzling more than $750,000 from her employer, and for submitting false tax returns to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Gulfport, Miss. - Juan Antonio Martinez-Alonso, 50, a citizen of Mexico, pled guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to the crime of unlawful re-entry by an alien previously convicted of a felony, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Joseph Banco, Chief Patrol Agent of the U.S. Border Patrol’s New Orleans Sector.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Lawsuit Alleged Improper Billing To Medicare and TennCare For Painkillers - Including Opioids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - On Monday, Jan. 22, 2017, Steven Edwin Cox, 61, of Tallassee, Alabama, pleaded guilty to drug distribution conspiracy and health care fraud charges arising out of the ongoing investigation and prosecution of a Montgomery “pill mill," announced United States Attorney Louis V. Franklin, Sr. The “pill mill" at issue was the Family Practice medical office located at 4143 Atlanta Highway in Montgomery, Alabama.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 24, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Gregg Harper (R-MS), Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Chairman Bob Latta (R-OH), and Subcommittee on Communications and Technology Chairman Marsha...
