News from December 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Salisbury medical doctor who unlawfully prescribed oxycodone was sentenced to prison, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Portland, Maine: U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maine collected over $19.8 million in civil, criminal and asset forfeiture actions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Ariana Fajardo Orshan, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Omar Pérez Aybar, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General’s (HHS-OIG) Miami Regional Office, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, FBI’s Miami Field Office, and Adolphus...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Owner of Purported U.K. Investment Firm and Two Richmond-Area Men Charged for Roles in Investment Fraud Scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - With the first year of the 116th Congress coming to a close, Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) highlighted the Subcommittee’s work to restore net neutrality, combat the robocall epidemic, secure America’s telecommunications supply chain, fix faulty broadband maps, and more. The Subcommittee held 12 hearings, three markups, and passed 11 bills this year.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statements on Energy and Commerce provisions included in H.R. 1865, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the tax extenders package...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) issued the following statement regarding the appropriations package...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: David Hansen Admits to 8-Year Wire Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Indonesian Citizen and Three Indonesian Companies Charged with Violating U.S. Export Laws and Sanctions Against Iran.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Last week, Energy and Commerce Republicans hosted an Energy and Environment Innovation Showcase featuring companies, educational institutions, and other organizations that exemplify the importance of innovation to address climate change, generate cleaner energy, and create stronger energy security.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey has reached a settlement with a Middlesex County, New Jersey, day care facility to ensure equal access for children with HIV or Hepatitis under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced today that Robert Defreitas, an officer with the Virgin Islands Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs (DLCA), was convicted at trial of Travel Act Bribery and Solicitation of a Bribe by a Public Employee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: POCATELLO - David Hansen, 48, of Idaho Falls, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, U.S. Attorney Bart M. Davis announced. Pursuant to a written plea agreement filed with the court, Hansen pleaded guilty to count 16 of the superseding indictment. The trial set for Jan. 21, 2020 was vacated.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - CHAD WAYNE KASPEREIT, 34, of Duncan, has been sentenced to ten years in prison for possessing firearms while subject to a victim protective order and lying on a federal form to purchase firearms, announced U.S. Attorney Timothy J. Downing.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced that MARKO STASIV was sentenced to seven years in prison today by U.S. District...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - Workers recently demolished the former Main Plant Office Building at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) site, bringing EM’s total number of structures removed in the cleanup there to 66.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: The Insider Trading Scheme Allegedly Generated $7 Million in Illegal Profits.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: Macon, Ga. - Three co-conspirators involved in a multi-million dollar scheme to defraud millions from Citizens Bank and Trust (CB&T) have been sentenced for their crimes, announced Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. On Monday, Dec. 16, 2019, former...
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 17, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a committee business meeting.
