News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Leah M. Stevens, 32, of Rochester, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - A former Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to a term of imprisonment of 33 months to be followed by 6 years of supervised release on his conviction of possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Louisiana man was arraigned today on charges that he illegally accessed a healthcare company’s online portal and downloaded more than 60,000 laboratory reports belonging to more than 30,000 patients, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the filing of federal charges against 10 individuals in Operation Dead Ringer. The individuals are charged in 10 separate cases with cumulatively stealing more than $500,000 by collecting benefits from the Social Security Administration on behalf of beneficiaries who were actually deceased. The maximum penalty for stealing federal benefits is 10 years in federal prison per count.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By EPA Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement today after the House of Representatives passed their anti-robocalls bill, the Pallone-Thune TRACED Act, by an overwhelming vote of 417-3...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Federal, State, and International Law Enforcement Join Forces Against Transnational Schemes.
By State Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a full committee oversight hearing on the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), with witness testimony from the Honorable Sean Cairncross, chief executive officer of the MCC.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA), and Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH) released the following statement today after the House of Representatives passed their anti-robocalls bill, the Pallone-Thune TRACED Act, by an overwhelming vote of 417-3...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: A leader of the Latin Counts gang was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in federal prison for assault with a dangerous weapon in aid of racketeering, announced United States Attorney Matthew Schneider.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Warren Johnson, age 28, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was indicted on Dec. 3, 2019, by a federal grand jury on charges of failure to appear at the Bureau of Prisons for the commencement of his previously imposed sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SEAN STEWART, a former senior investment banker at two different New York-based investment banks, was sentenced yesterday to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff for illegally tipping...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee legislative hearing on “Building Consumer Confidence by Empowering FDA to Improve Cosmetic Safety:"Today, we will discuss two legislative proposals that empower the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to more effectively regulate cosmetic and personal care products.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - In a new letter to Interior Secretary David Bernhardt this morning, Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) warns of potential legal liability for the Department of the Interior (DOI) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) stemming from BLM’s forced move of employees based in Washington...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is joining Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) for a video series aimed at providing the facts on Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures.
By USDA Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, December 4, 2019 - At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced a final rule to move more able-bodied recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) towards self-sufficiency and into employment. The rule restores the system to what Congress intended: assistance through difficult times, not a way of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: Two Sapulpa sisters were sentenced today in U.S. District Court for illegally taking more than $350,000 in Social Security and military retirement benefits that were meant for their mother, announced U.S. Attorney Trent Shores.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Louisiana man was arraigned today on charges that he illegally accessed a healthcare company’s online portal and downloaded more than 60,000 laboratory reports belonging to more than 30,000 patients, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) is joining Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) for a video series aimed at providing the facts on Speaker Pelosi’s partisan plan for fewer cures.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 4, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) remarks at a Subcommittee on Health hearing titled, “Building Consumer Confidence by Empowering FDA to Improve Cosmetic Safety."
