News from April 2019
By EPA Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced its new rule regulating the use of asbestos...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar expressing their serious concerns regarding the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Title X family planning services grants awarded in March. The letter was signed by Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney David C. Joseph announced today that Erin W. O’Daniel, 36, of Bossier City, Louisiana, was sentenced to four years and 10 months in prison for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and for possession of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. She was also sentenced to five years of supervised release. United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote presided over the sentencing hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - Attorney General William P. Barr and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex M. Azar III, together with multiple law enforcement partners, today announced enforcement actions involving 60 charged defendants across 11 federal districts, including 31 doctors, 7 pharmacists...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Damiane Buehrer and Kristy Bumpus (aka “Kristy Buehrer"), have been indicted on federal arson charges related to the Jan. 11, 2017, burning of the body and car of a former North Adams, Michigan, resident who had overdosed on the synthetic opiate carfentanil. Buehrer is also...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: By: U.S. Senator John Barrasso April 17, 2019 Jackson Hole News & Guide Wyoming is home to some of the most incredible wildlife on the planet. People travel from all over the world to experience our state's natural beauty and see our thriving populations of bison, grizzly bears, mule deer, wolves and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that THAI THAI, LLC. d/b/a Sticky Rice Thai Cuisine and SOMPHON CHIWABANDIT, age 47, a native of Thailand, were sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to harboring and unlawfully employing illegal aliens, in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1324(a)(1)(A)(iii) and Title 8, United States Code, Section 1324a(a)(1)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: OXFORD - A Eupora man has been sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for his illegal possession and discharge of a weapon on the campus of Eupora High School in March of 2018. Nathaniel Cole Breazeale, 20, was sentenced Monday afternoon by Chief U.S. District Judge Sharion Aycock to serve 71...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar expressing their serious concerns regarding the Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 Title X family planning services grants awarded in March. The letter was signed by Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO).
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Hot Springs National Park is planning to conduct a burn of accumulated vegetation in the area of Blacksnake Road the week of April 22, 2019.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
Release: ABILENE, Texas - Due to high demand, a temporary TSA Pre✓® application center will be open for an additional week at Abilene Regional Airport (ABI).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Florida Man Sentenced to Prison for Filing False Tax Returns.
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: BALTIMORE, Md. - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), gave the kickoff speech at the organizer training for a nationwide canvassing campaign being run this summer by U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. P.I.R.G.) and Environment ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Defendant’s “Codeshop" Website Sold Troves of Stolen Credit Card Data and Bank Account Logins on the Black Market.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that two individuals from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania have been charged in connection with two nationwide health care fraud takedowns. These two cases stem from the partnership between the United States Attorney’s Office...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a total of $20 million in funding for innovative research and development in artificial intelligence (A.I.) and machine learning. DOE’s Office of Electricity has selected eight projects to receive nearly $7 million in total to explore ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: The charge is a part of the nationwide Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strike Force takedown.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge, A.J. Collazo and U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced an upcoming prescription take-back event, scheduled for April 27th on St. Croix and St. Thomas. The National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day addresses a serious public safety...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Portsmouth man was sentenced today to more than two and a half years in prison for possession of a firearm by convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2019
News Release: BOISE - Jennifer L. Fanopoulos, 41, of Boise, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 3 years of probation for obtaining controlled substances by fraud, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Fanopoulos was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Edward J. Lodge. Fanopoulos pleaded guilty on Oct. 25, 2018.
