News from March 2018
By EPA Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) and House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) issued the following statements after leading a letter, along with 42 Republican Members of both committees, to the Department...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, who is currently leading the largest Congressional investigation to date into the opioid epidemic, is praising efforts by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Centers in Missouri after a recent VA report showed a 39% average decrease in opioid prescribing at the Missouri facilities between 2012-2017. McCaskill is also seeking additional details about decreasing opioid use within the VA healthcare system nationally.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for selling crack cocaine in and around Roxbury’s Orchard Gardens Housing Development.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A New Bedford man was indicted today in federal court in Boston on drug and gun charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Kathleen Marie Hydar, 30; Courtney Anarian Brown, 36; Paris John Earnest Devine, 25; and Raymond Christopher Seay, 39; were indicted today on charges of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute over 500 grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Washington County, Pennsylvania has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of wire fraud, tax evasion, conspiracy to defraud the United States, false bankruptcy declaration, and unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) and House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) issued the following statements after leading a letter, along with 42 Republican Members of both Committees, to Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: CHICAGO - More than ten defendants are facing federal drug charges for allegedly trafficking fentanyl, heroin and cocaine on Chicago’s South Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: HOUSTON - A 31-year-old former law enforcement official has entered a guilty plea to production and possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick. Andrew Craig Sustaita, of Spring, was previously a Harris County deputy sheriff at the time of the offense, but is no longer employed there.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - United States Attorney Russell M. Coleman today announced the sentencing of John Robert Boone, in United States District Court, by Senior Judge Charles R. Simpson III, to 57 months in prison, having pleaded guilty to manufacture and possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Three Miami, Florida-area home health agency owners were charged in an indictment unsealed on March 13, 2018 for their alleged participation in a health care fraud scheme involving a now-defunct home health agency in Miami.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Philip D. Dean, M.D., 62, of Warrenton, Missouri, was indicted today with eight felony charges for making false statements to Medicare and Medicaid and illegally distributing fentanyl, hydrocodone, and other controlled prescription drugs without a legitimate medical purpose.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) and House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) issued the following statements after leading a letter, along with 42 Republican Members of both committees, to the Department...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)’s issuance of an advance notice of proposed rulemaking to consider a product standard to lower nicotine in cigarettes to minimally or non-addictive levels...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chairman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) and House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) issued the following statements after leading a letter, along with 42 Republican Members of both committees, to the Department...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $32.5 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) to advance solid oxide fuel cell technologies (SOFC). The selected projects will fall under the Office of Fossil Energy’s two funding opportunity announcements (FOAs):Preliminary Design and Techno-Economic Analysis of MWe-Class Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Systems and Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Core Technology Research.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a man from Texas was sentenced Wednesday to five years and 10 months in prison for drug distribution charges after heroin was found in his car battery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury yesterday, returned a superseding indictment against a former Nashville, Tennessee judge on obstruction and other charges stemming from a scheme in which he abused his official position for personal gain. U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Assistant Attorney General John P. Cronan of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division made the announcement.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - On March 14, 2018, a federal grand jury returned a superseding eight-count indictment against Benjamin Melendez-Rivera, Ralph Laboy-Santiago, Miguel Cruz-Kuilan, and Joel Laboy-Rosario for conspiracy to interfere with commerce by robbery, interference with commerce by robbery, and related...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), announced today a hearing for Thursday, March 22, 2018, at 10:15 a.m. in room 2322 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing is entitled, “Legislative Hearing on Four Communications Bills."
