News from March 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan leaders and key members of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Finance Committee sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) regarding its oversight of the Medicaid drug rebate program.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today announced the Fiscal Year 2018 budget bill will include new investments for rural communities and a long-awaited forestry package that fixes the U.S. Forest Service budget.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that AVINOAM LUZON was sentenced this afternoon to 110 months in prison for selling fentanyl that resulted in the overdose death of Gabriel Tramiel, 32, of Manhattan, on Oct. 22, 2016. LUZON was sentenced today by United States District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Linda Ferris, age 55, of Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, was indicted on March 20, 2018, by a federal grand jury for knowingly filing false bankruptcy documents and hiding assets during her bankruptcy case.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Eskandar Molavi, 69, of Frisco, Texas, is in federal custody following his arrest Friday, March 16, 2018 on federal charges stemming from a murder-for-hire plot to have his former business partner kidnapped and possibly killed. The announcement was made this afternoon by Special Agent in Charge Clyde E. Shelley, Jr. of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Erin Nealy Cox, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A jury has convicted an Irvine man of federal charges for running an investment scam that defrauded a businessman who believed he was investing in products related to stem cell research.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Columbia, Mo., man and three Compton, Calif., men were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine that was shipped to Columbia through the mail.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Plea Agreement Calls for 35-Year Prison Sentence.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), held a legislative hearing today to examine four bills introduced by members from both sides of the aisle, continuing #SubCommTech ’s strong tradition of bipartisan work.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for possessing methamphetamine to distribute and for possessing marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that on March 22, 2018, Travis Barrow, 31, was sentenced to 96 months in federal prison after his guilty plea to the charge of possession with intent to distribute more than 28 grams of cocaine base. United States District Court Judge Geoffrey W. Crawford also ordered that Barrow serve four years of supervised release after his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: A grand jury in Brooklyn has returned a five-count superseding indictment charging Panayiotis Kyriacou, Arvinsingh Canaye, Adrian Baron, and Linda Bullock with conspiracies to defraud the United States by obstructing the functions of the Internal Revenue Service in its administration of the Foreign Account...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Detectives with the Port Angeles Police Department (WA) and Special Agents with the National Park Service Investigative Services Branch (ISB) continue to investigate a possible kidnapping and sexual assault that occurred in October 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brian Brew, age 38, of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, was indicted on March 20, 2018, by a federal grand jury with drug distribution resulting in death. The indictment was unsealed yesterday following Brew’s initial appearance before United States Magistrate Judge Karoline Mehalchick.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the committee.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the FY2018 Omnibus Appropriations Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Following a three-day trial, a jury found Mark Porter, 59, a former resident of Draper, guilty late Wednesday afternoon of committing a federal hate crime when he used a stun device during the racially-motivated assault of a neighbor at his apartment complex in Draper, Utah. The jury further found that the defendant used a dangerous weapon - a stun cane. Prior to his arrest in this case, Porter was living in of Lake Havasu City, AZ.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) today issued the following statement after the House of Representatives voted 256-167 on an omnibus package to fund the government for Fiscal Year 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that Michael B. Stephens, Jr., 43, of Red Bud, Illinois, has pled guilty to an indictment charging him with two counts of production of child pornography. Stephens faces a term of imprisonment of 15 to 60 years...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 22, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation today provided an initial allocation to some Central Valley Project contractors and increased the allocation to Friant Division contractors for the 2018 contract year.
