News from June 2018
By EPA Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Health hearing on “Examining the Reauthorization of the Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness Act:"
By EPA Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) issued the following statement on Facebook allowing Chinese technology companies access to data of users and users’ friends without explicit consent...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 6, 2018
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Iran Michael Kesselman, a 72-year-old former Las Vegas resident, was sentenced today to 104 months in prison followed by 3 years supervised release after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine on Sept. 10, 2013. U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris handed down the sentence.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The winner of this year’s Grand Challenge held by EM’s Office of River Protection (ORP) proposes to develop a technical basis for using cementitious materials for immobilizing treated low-activity waste streams.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: PROVIDENCE, RI - A Providence man who led a conspiracy to create fraudulent prescriptions for opioid pills using stolen medical practitioner identification numbers and identities, and, at times, unlawfully paying for the prescriptions with the use of medical insurance, has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Providence to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute Oxycodone, and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND -Thomas Goralczyk, age 51, of Merrillville, Indiana was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen on his plea of guilty to a federal bribery charge, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - A Michigan man who was caught with drugs in Huntington in 2017 was sentenced yesterday to 87 months in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. William Henry Stephens, Jr., 45, of Inkster, previously pled guilty to possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more of heroin in federal court in Huntington. Stuart commended the work of the Huntington FBI Drug Task Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Defendant Drove Two Girls, Ages 15 and 17, from Pennsylvania to Maryland to Engage in Prostitution.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Committee leaders today released the list of grants that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) intends to award under the Nationally Significant Freight and Highway Projects program created in the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act of 2015. The program is now known as the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Ohio County Magistrate Harry A. Radcliffe, III, was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges involving wire fraud, bribery, and tax fraud, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By USDA Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, June 5, 2018 - As part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s ongoing effort to make the oversight of food safety stronger and more efficient, USDA and FDA today announced the alignment of the USDA Harmonized Good Agricultural Practices Audit Program (USDA H-GAP) with the requirements of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act’s (FSMA’s) Produce Safety Rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: The defendant used violence, threats, isolation, and intimidation to compel victim to work seven days a week without pay at restaurant Defendant Bobby Paul Edwards, 53, of Conway, South Carolina, pleaded guilty Monday in United States District Court for the District of South Carolina to one count of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: An Avenues gang member who was captured last year after more than a decade on the run was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison on federal hate crime and firearms charges that were filed against him in 2004, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division, United States Attorney Nicola T. Hanna of the Central District of California, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Paul D. Delacourt for the Los Angeles Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: A federal court in Newnan, Georgia permanently enjoined Lucrezia Finch Henderson from preparing federal income tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today. The court also ordered Henderson to mail a copy of the injunction order to all customers for whom she prepared a return after Jan. 1, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: A jury in the Northern District of California convicted Jyh-Chau “Henry” Horng, of Saratoga, California and part owner of a home-based international trading business, yesterday on two counts of filing false tax returns and one count of making false statements to an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: A Maryland gang member pleaded guilty yesterday to his participation in a racketeering enterprise in furtherance of the activities of the gang known as La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, including his participation in a drug robbery intended to support the gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: An Elizabeth, New Jersey, biodiesel fuel company pleaded guilty today to discharging over 45,000 gallons of wastewater from its commercial biodiesel fuel production into the Arthur Kill, a narrow waterway that separates New Jersey from Staten Island, New York, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito and Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey H. Wood announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON – The Justice Department announced today that Allegiance Health Management, Inc., (Allegiance), a post-acute healthcare management company based in Shreveport, Louisiana, and four hospitals owned and operated by Allegiance (collectively, the Allegiance Defendants), have agreed to pay more ...
By Fed Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Five federal financial regulatory agencies on Tuesday announced that they are jointly asking for public comment on a proposal that would simplify and tailor compliance requirements relating to the "Volcker rule." By statute, the Volcker rule generally restricts banking entities from engaging in prohibited proprietary trading and from owning or controlling hedge funds or private equity funds.
By Labor Gazette | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA, GA – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) is currently engaged in an education and enforcement initiative to educate industry stakeholders, employers, and employees in the Southeast’s agricultural industry about federal wage laws, and to provide compliance assistance to employers. The initiative includes educational outreach events and investigations of employers.
