News from June 2018
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 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 release of the 2018 Medicare Trustees Report.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Detroit man was sentenced yesterday to federal prison on drug and firearm charges, announced United States Attorney Mike Stuart. Fashawn “Chops" Cannon, 28, previously entered guilty pleas to distributing Oxycodone and using a firearm during and in relation to that crime. Cannon...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Largest Increase in Decades Allocates Prosecutors to Focus on Violent Crime,.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Wanda Greene Allegedly Improperly Used $2.3 Million of Buncombe County Funds to Fund Fraudulent Life Insurance Policy Scheme.
By State Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary:. I remain deeply concerned that Trump Administration appointees at the State Department have targeted career employees based on national origin or perceived political beliefs. During your May 23 testimony before this Committee, you committed to providing us a timeline by the end...
By EPA Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on a report from the Trustees of Social Security and Medicare indicating that Medicare will become insolvent three years earlier than previous projections...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Energy and Commerce Committee today released the second video in a series featuring committee members highlighting their legislative efforts to combat the opioid crisis. These videos will highlight just a handful of the 57 legislative solutions the committee advanced to the full House in May.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan and bicameral health care leaders today sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) raising concerns about the department’s implementation of a portion of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015. The leaders requested information regarding the “Cyber Threat Preparedness Report" (CTPR), as well as other important status updates.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 5, 2018
News Release: Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement on a report from the Trustees of Social Security and Medicare indicating that Medicare will become insolvent three years earlier than previous projections...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney John H. Durham today announced that Leonard C. Boyle has returned to the U.S. Attorney’s Office to serve as First Assistant United States Attorney, the office’s second-ranking position.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Las Cruces District is implementing fire restrictions in order to reduce the risk of wildfire on public land in Doña Ana, Otero, Luna, Sierra, Grant and Hidalgo counties. Due to extreme fire conditions, the restrictions will go into effect on June 7, 2018, and will remain in effect until further notice.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen today met with the Minister of Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship for Canada Ahmed Hussen in Washington, D.C to reaffirm their commitment to working together on immigration and border security issues. She was joined by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director L. Francis Cissna and representatives from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Today, on the 500th day of the Trump Administration, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the Department of Justice is taking a dramatic step to increase resources to combat violent crime, enforce our immigration laws, and help roll back the devastating opioid crisis. In the largest increase ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Société Générale S.A. (Société Générale), a global financial services institution based in Paris, France, and its wholly owned subsidiary, SGA Société Générale Acceptance N.V., have agreed to pay a combined total penalty of more than $860 million to resolve charges with criminal authorities in the United ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: The Justice Department today announced that it reached an agreement with the City of Ville Platte and a separate agreement with the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office (Louisiana) to end the pattern or practice by the Ville Platte Police Department (VPPD) and the Evangeline Parish Sheriff’s Office (EPSO) ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Greensboro, North Carolina returned an indictment, which was unsealed today, charging the operators of a mental health provider with multiple crimes related to the submission of false claims to Medicaid and tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: A former fugitive and social security disability lawyer pleaded guilty in federal court today for his role in scheming to defraud the Social Security Administration (SSA) of more than $550 million, retaliating against an informant and fleeing from the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Legg Mason Inc. (Legg Mason), a Maryland-based investment management firm, has entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the Department of Justice and agreed to pay $64.2 million to resolve the Department’s investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) in connection with Legg Mason’s participation, through a subsidiary, in a Libyan bribery scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Vladimir Nevidomy, 32, of Hallandale Beach, Florida, was sentenced to 26 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for conspiring to illegally export military-grade night vision and thermal vision devices, and ammunition primers to Russia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 4, 2018
News Release: Ron Rockwell Hansen, 58, a resident of Syracuse, Utah, and a former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officer, was arrested Saturday afternoon on federal charges including the attempted transmission of national defense information to the People’s Republic of China. The FBI agents took Hansen into custody ...
