News from March 2018
By DOE Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX - EM and contractor officials here last week highlighted progress with cleanup projects underway at the former Portsmouth and Paducah gaseous diffusion plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - Misraim Israel Briones Pasos aka Mario Ozuna, 36, of Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico, was sentenced today to 151 months in prison for his role in a vast conspiracy responsible for trafficking hundreds of pounds of black tar heroin from Nayarit, Mexico to the Portland metropolitan area.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces the detention of a defendant after his arrest on a federal firearms charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Came to the attention of federal authorities after Crawford County arrest for Sexual Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jonathon Rule, age 28, of Moreau, New York, was arraigned yesterday on an indictment charging him with failing to register as a sex offender.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR), House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), and House Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) wrote to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma regarding proposed changes affecting Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D programs payments and policies for 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Cephos Leyon Jamal White, a/k/a Jamal, has been sentenced to ten years, one month in federal prison for the armed robbery of a jewelry store in Conyers, Georgia in April 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Defendants, Who Failed to Disclose Foreign Bank Accounts, To Pay $15.4 Million in Civil Penalties.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 28, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and House Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., D-N.J., asked the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to study the costs of implementing and administering harmful policies in recently approved Section 1115 Medicaid waivers that would impose significant burdens on beneficiaries and require substantial bureaucratic efforts to operate.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Derek
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, sent a letter requesting information about a recent report that Cambridge Analytica may have violated U.S. election regulations that prohibit high-level strategy or analysis work by foreign nationals in U.S. political campaigns.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: Dear Secretary Azar: We write with strong objections to the Department of Health and Human Services’ (“HHS" or the “Department") proposed rule “Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights in Health Care; Delegations of Authority," which attempts to dramatically expand existing harmful refusal laws in ways...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - EM federal and contractor employees from across the DOE complex recently gathered at the Hanford Site to collaborate on information technology (IT) and cybersecurity topics, including how best to support the cleanup program’s focus on safe, environmentally responsible, and cost-effective...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX), House Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), and House Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) wrote to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma regarding proposed changes affecting Medicare Advantage (MA) and Part D programs payments and policies for 2019.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen traveled to Mexico City, Mexico to meet with her Mexican counterparts to discuss economic and national security issues affecting both the United States and Mexico.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON—Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen met with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to discuss security issues affecting both the United States and Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: The Department of Justice and the City of West Palm Beach announced today that they had reached an agreement regarding Resolution Number 112-17. The Department had been investigating whether West Palm Beach’s Resolution Number 112-17 and polices related to the resolution comply with 8 U.S.C. § 1373, which protects information sharing between local law enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Providence returned an indictment today charging a Rhode Island man with corruptly endeavoring to impede the internal revenue laws, tax evasion, and perjury, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Stephen G. Dambruch for the District of Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: A Maryland woman was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for her involvement in a scheme to fraudulently obtain millions of dollars in income tax refunds, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 27, 2018
News Release: A mother-daughter tax return preparer team in St. Louis, Missouri, prepares false federal income tax returns for their customers, according to a new lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice today. The suit asks the court to permanently bar Cherlynn Harrington, Linda McClendon, and their business Goodlink, ...
