News from July 2019
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 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.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - In the wake of two disturbing reports detailing the deficiencies in the quality of care delivered to some Medicare hospice enrollees, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard E. Neal (D-MA) and Ranking Member Kevin Brady (R-TX) today sent a letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid...
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Dr. Norman E. “Ned" Sharpless requesting briefings on the potential threat to the U.S. supply of heparin, the only anticoagulant drug used for open-heart surgeries and kidney dialysis.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Dr. Norman E. "Ned" Sharpless requesting briefings on the potential threat to the U.S. supply of heparin, the only anticoagulant drug used for open-heart surgeries and kidney dialysis.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Congressman Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, Congressman Bobby Scott (D-VA), the Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, and Oversight and Reform Committee Member Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) sent a letter...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Patient Recruiter Found Guilty in $1.3 Million Medicare Kickback Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Derek Schultz, of Wheeling, West Virginia, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By EPA Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Ranking Member Greg Walden (R-OR) released a statement today after Congress passed a short-term extension of the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) demonstration program through Sept. 13, 2019...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Mexican national was sentenced today to 64 months in prison for his role in conspiring to traffic approximately 300 grams of fentanyl into New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Robert R. Redfield, M.D., today requesting a briefing following reports that the agency is reorganizing its environmental health division in ways that could diminish the effectiveness of critical public health programs, including the Climate and Health Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: A podiatrist with offices in Mentor was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for fraudulently billing Medicare and Medicaid nearly $1.2 million.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) sent a letter to the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Andrew Wheeler, requesting that information be provided to the Committee on impacts and changes made to Section 401 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), which manages states’ roles in implementing water quality standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a New Mexico woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: In Austin today, a federal judge sentenced Modesto Gonzalez, III, to ten years in federal prison for defrauding numerous individuals out of more than of $300,000 by impersonating a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent, announced U.S. Attorney John F. Bash and DEA Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, Houston Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell has sentenced Aaron Troupe (30, Tampa) to five years and one month in federal prison for theft of government property and aggravated identity theft stemming from the filing of fraudulent tax returns using stolen identities. The court also ordered Troupe to pay $449,529.97 in restitution to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced that today, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle, sentenced MICHAEL DEVONTE HILL, 26, of Robeson County to 300 months’ imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Mexican national was sentenced today to 64 months in prison for his role in conspiring to traffic approximately 300 grams of fentanyl into New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS - A federal judge today convicted Billings resident Darrell Franklin Holliday on methamphetamine distribution charges after a two-day bench trial, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald announced the sentencing of ANDRE MATHIS, JR., a/k/a Isaac Brown, 33, AMOS KIPROP KOECH, 44, for sex trafficking a 15-year-old minor. MATHIS, who pleaded guilty on Jan. 10, 2019, was sentenced to 292 months in prison. KOECH, who was convicted by a federal...
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 30, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) held a business meeting to consider a number of items: Substitute amendment to S.__, America's Transportation Infrastructure Act; S. 1992, A bill to amend the FAST Act to repeal a rescission of funds; and 6 General Services Administration (GSA) resolutions. Below is the opening statement of Ranking Member Tom Carper (D-Del.), as prepared for delivery...
