News from April 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Wagner, South Dakota, man convicted of Obtaining Controlled Substances by Fraud was sentenced on April 1, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA- A resident of Armstrong County, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of theft of government money, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Four EM Savannah River Site (SRS) employees have been recognized this year for acting as both first responders and good Samaritans.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) invites industry, academia, laboratories, and the innovation community to submit white papers related to 12 first responder technology funding opportunities. The new Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) solicitation (BAA 18-02 Call 0001) will remain open until May 1st, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: Manhattan Project National Historical Park is seeking volunteers to help maintain a World War II Victory Garden and native pollinator garden. Volunteers will assist with the planning, planting, harvesting, and maintaining of the gardens. The gardens will be located at the park’s visitor center in the Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge next to the newly relocated Flattop House.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: PROVIDENCE - The second of two Florida men charged with participating in a conspiracy to, on multiple occasions, traffic multi-kilogram shipments of cocaine through the U.S. Postal Service from Puerto Rico into Rhode Island has been sentenced to 84 months in federal prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon, today celebrated congressional passage of their bill to prevent drug makers from manipulating Medicaid to gouge taxpayers and increase profits by misclassifying their drugs. The legislation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: Former Congressional Staffer Sentenced to Prison for Extensive Fraud and Election Crimes Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: New York Man Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to 20 Years in Prison for Attempting to Provide and Conspiring to Provide Material Support to ISIS.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, today celebrated congressional passage of their bill to prevent drug makers from manipulating Medicaid to gouge taxpayers and increase profits by misclassifying...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS, Calif. April 2, 2019 - Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are releasing their 2018 fire year summary and 2019 prescribed burn and mechanical treatments to the public. Mechanical fuels treatments, prescribed burns, lightning-caused wildfires managed for multiple...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley of Iowa and Ranking Member Ron Wyden of Oregon today sent letters to Cigna Corporation (Express Scripts), CVS Health Corporation and Optum, the three leading pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), regarding their role in the skyrocketing cost of insulin in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on April 1, 2019, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Arraignments were held Monday in federal court in Kansas City, Kan., for some of 14 defendants charged with marijuana trafficking and money laundering, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: UPDATE. John V. Palermo, a defendant in this case, was acquitted of the charges alleged in the indictment as described in the press release below. Charlotte, N.C. - A federal criminal indictment unsealed today in the Western District of North Carolina charges the founder and Chairman of a multinational...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JAIME LOPEZ, 37, a citizen of Mexico last residing in Norwalk, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a cocaine trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that United States District Judge William H. Steele sentenced defendant Stephen Allen Mathes, 37, a resident of Mobile, Alabama, to twenty-four months imprisonment for bank robbery. As part of the sentence, the...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA-40), Chair of the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the fiscal year 2020 budget request for the Transportation Security Administration.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: LAS VEGAS - For Marc Klein, strategic communications manager for EM Nevada Program contractor Navarro, the Nevada National Security Site’s (NNSS) rich history inspires a commitment to learning and outreach.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 2, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - DEA New England Division Special Agent in Charge Brian D. Boyle and United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced that Dennis Chaney, 31, of Rochester, was sentenced to 63 months in prison for participating in a fentanyl trafficking conspiracy.
