News from July 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will establish a working group to review importing prescription drugs from other countries during the case of a price hike.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The BLM Boise District Fire and Fuels program will implement another phase of the Soda Fuel Breaks project along the Owyhee Front to combat wildfires and protect recent Soda Fire rehabilitation efforts. The work will begin the week of July 16 and potentially continue through Oct. 12.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: On July 17, 2018, a Marion Illinois man was sentenced to prison on charges related to Alpha-Pyrrolidinopentiophenone (Alpha-PVP) (also known as "bath salts), United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene E. Honeywell today sentenced Robert Joseph Ware (27, Pinellas Park) to 23 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. Ware had pleaded guilty on Dec. 20, 2017.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY) and Homeland Security Subcommittee Ranking Member Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) released the following statement after House Republicans unveiled a Homeland Security appropriations bill that includes nearly $5 billion to fund President Trump’s border wall.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Pursuant to a settlement agreement from September 2014 between the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and the Association of American Railroads (AAR), OSHA today published a proposed rule regarding railroad construction equipment provisions in the Cranes and Derricks in Construction standard. OSHA’s proposal will maintain safety and health protections for workers, and address employers’ compliance burdens.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a father and son were sentenced today in Bridgeport federal court for profiting from unlawful exports to Pakistan. U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill sentenced both MUHAMMAD ISMAIL, 67, of Meriden, and KAMRAN KHAN, 38, of Hamden, to 18 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that Ira Alan Arias, age 42, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Sisseton, South Dakota, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison following a federal jury’s guilty verdicts on three counts of Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: A Federal Indictment unsealed today alleges a conspiracy to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl, a Schedule II controlled substance that is deadly in doses of only a few milligrams, centered in the Clinton-Peabody public housing complex on the near south side of the City of St. Louis. Many of the defendants lived outside the area but utilized the housing complex to distribute drugs.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM - The lightning-caused Hidden Valley Fire was first reported on Tuesday, July 17 around 3:30 pm on Valles Caldera National Preserve. The ¼-acre fire is currently burning within a recent forest thinning area on the north flank of South Mountain. Given favorable conditions, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Spokane - Joseph H. Harrington, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Jason Obermiller, age 34, of Spokane, Washington, was sentenced today after having pleaded guilty in April 2018, to distributing and conspiring to distribute 50 grams or more of a mixture and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury today unsealed an indictment charging El’Shawn Williams, an officer in the Put-in-Bay Police Department, with using excessive force against a man in custody, and then making false statements and writing false reports to cover it up. The indictment alleges that Williams, 28, punched ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Federal Suit Alleges City Discriminated Against City-Employed Registered Nurses and Midwives by not Recognizing their Work as “Physically Taxing” Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and Richard P. Donoghue, United States Attorney for the Eastern ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Two former employees of a global financial institution were charged in an indictment filed today for their alleged participation in fraudulent and deceptive trading in previous metals futures contracts, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Assistant Director in Charge William Sweeney of the FBI’s New York Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: Southern SNF Management, Inc., Rehab Services in Motion d/b/a Dynamic Rehab and nine affiliated skilled nursing facilities in Florida and Alabama have agreed to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting or causing the submission of false claims to Medicare for medically ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - A resident of Cheyenne, Wyoming and creator of “Fitwall” exercise equipment pleaded guilty today to two counts of willfully failing to file his income tax returns and one count of making a fraudulent application for health care benefits. The change of plea was announced by Principal Deputy ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: A Bloomfield Hills, Michigan resident, pleaded guilty today in Flint, Michigan to one count of structuring a financial transaction to avoid bank reporting requirements, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that NPB Neue Privat Bank (NPB) reached a resolution with the Tax Division. NPB will pay a penalty of $5 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: A Homestead, Florida, man was arrested on an indictment yesterday, stemming from charges that he surreptitiously produced pornographic audio and video recordings of himself engaging in sexual activity with multiple men and then caused the videos to be posted on one or more subscription-based pornography ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 18, 2018
News Release: A federal court in Brooklyn entered a permanent injunction against defendants Euroline Foods, LLC, Royal Seafood Baza, Inc., the companies’ owner/operators Eduard Shnayder, Syoma Shnayder, and Albert Niyazov, and operator Oleg Polischouk to prevent insanitary conditions, including practices that increase ...
