News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: CONCORD - Alexander A. Tsiros, 37, of Farmington, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for drug trafficking and firearms offenses, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Staten Island, New York, man has admitted robbing a New Jersey business owner in February 2019, defrauding eight New Jersey businesses from July 2016 through January 2019, and defrauding and stealing the identities of three women, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - A basin that once held cooling water used in Oak Ridge’s former uranium enrichment operations is being demolished as EM works to complete cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP). Watch a video of the project here.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Bipartisan House health leaders sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today expressing concerns over reports that the Medicare Plan Finder was confusing, generated incorrect results, and inadvertently led beneficiaries to select plans with lower premiums but higher overall costs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: St. Louis - Nihad Rosic, 31, of Utica, New York, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiring to provide material support to terrorists and one count of providing material support to terrorists. Rosic appeared today before Judge Catherine D. Perry who accepted his plea and set his sentencing for April 16, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Jean Patrice Delia, age 44, of Montreal, Canada, pled guilty today to conspiring to steal trade secrets from the General Electric Company (GE).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Pamela Emanuel, 59, of San Jose, pleaded guilty today for her role in a scheme to defraud the state of California by filing false unemployment insurance claims, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on ““Securing the U.S. Drug Supply Chain: Oversight of FDA’s Foreign Inspection Program:"
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - The Bureau of Reclamation recently announced Wayne Pullan as deputy regional director for its Upper Colorado Basin Region. As deputy regional director, Pullan will oversee a variety of water and hydropower programs in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. He begins his new assignment December 9, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Beatrice, Nebraska - On Sunday, Dec. 15, at 2:00 p.m. Jerome Kills Small from the Pine Ridge Reservation in Western South Dakota will be at Homestead National Monument of America’s Education Center to share the Winter Traditions of the Oglala Sioux people, through songs and stories. Small’s Lakota name is Sisoka Luta (she-sho-kah Loo-tah) which translates literally to Red Robin, but he pronounces it Cardinal.
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C. - Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee introduced the Global Hope Act, legislation that will support efforts to help lower childhood cancer mortality rates in developing countries. While most prevalent forms of pediatric...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced the sentencing of DWIGHT CADARIUS LABON, 32, to 94 months in prison for conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute heroin and illegally possessing firearms. LABON, who pleaded guilty on Aug. 27, 2019, was sentenced on December 9, 2019, before Judge Eric C. Tostrud in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minnesota.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House health leaders sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma expressing concerns over reports that the Medicare Plan Finder was confusing, generated incorrect results, and inadvertently led beneficiaries to select plans with lower premiums but higher overall costs.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Bipartisan House health leaders sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma today expressing concerns over reports that the Medicare Plan Finder was confusing, generated incorrect results, and inadvertently led beneficiaries to select plans with lower premiums but higher overall costs.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Cactus Flat, S.D. - The historic Delta-01 Launch Control Facility provides a remarkable opportunity to view the front line of the Cold War. However, it was built for two missile officers, and never meant for tourists. The standard public tour of Delta-01, offered since 2004, includes a descent to the underground control center which not accessible to visitors with mobility challenges due to the restrictive underground spaces.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at an Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on ““Securing the U.S. Drug Supply Chain: Oversight of FDA’s Foreign Inspection Program:"
By State Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement about President Trump’s upcoming White House meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing titled “Securing the U.S. Drug Supply Chain: Oversight of FDA’s Foreign Inspection Program."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: NOTE: A fourth defendant, Silviu Catalin Balaci, was arrested in Germany after the issuance of this press release. The attached indictment has been amended to reflect this.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 10, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Bipartisan House health leaders sent a letter to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma expressing concerns over reports that the Medicare Plan Finder was confusing, generated incorrect results, and inadvertently led beneficiaries to select plans with lower premiums but higher overall costs.
