News from June 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced that Edward Marks, 33, of Parkersburg, was sentenced to 60 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine. Marks was prosecuted as part of Project Parkersburg - a major takedown and dismantling of a multi-state...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senator Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., today introduced legislation to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes by ending the anonymity of shell companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Peter C. Fitzhugh, Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Boston, announced that BRIEN PENNELL, 31, of Stamford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HARRY BLAKE, also known as “Harry-O" and “O," 37, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 168 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By State Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today convened a committee business meeting during which members approved eight pieces of legislation, four treaties, and one nomination.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - A Salvadoran national who was deported from the United States in 2003 after being convicted of sexually abusing a child was indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges that he illegally reentered the United States and then posted child pornography on Facebook.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Bradley A. Seyer, D.D.S., 53, of Florissant, Missouri, pled guilty today to two felony charges for making false statements to Medicare and illegally distributing narcotic opioid drugs, specifically hydrocodone, without a legitimate medical purpose. Seyer appeared before U.S. District Judge Ronnie White who accepted his plea and set his sentencing for Sept. 25, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HARRY BLAKE, also known as “Harry-O" and “O," 37, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 168 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Lancaster General Hospital’s Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine Improperly Billed for Obstetric Ultrasounds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Former Deputy April Myres Claimed Her Service Firearm Had Been Stolen When It Was In The Possession Of A Felon With Whom She Had A Jailhouse Relationship.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sens. Lisa Murkowski, Dan Sullivan, Rep. Don Young, and Gov. Michael J. Dunleavy, all R-Alaska, today released the following statement after the Department of the Interior issued new Public Land Orders (PLO) partially revoking a number of PLOs put in place in eastern interior Alaska in 1972. The Department also announced today it would partially revoke PLOs in place in the Bering Glacier area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury yesterday issued a 135-count second superseding indictment charging a Fultondale doctor with 31 additional counts of dispensing controlled substances without a legitimate medical purpose, announced U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town, Drug Enforcement Administration Assistant...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Michigan Patient Recruiter Sentenced to Prison for $1.5 Million Kickback Scheme.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - One year ago today, just days after the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs released a majority staff report finding that the Medicaid program is “plagued by waste, fraud and abuse," the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) unveiled several initiatives...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - This week, Rep. Harley Rouda, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, held a hearing on “Recovery, Resiliency and Readiness- “Contending with Natural Disasters in the Wake of Climate Change (Climate Change, Part III)."
By USDA Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA., June 26, 2019 - Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced that USDA is investing $192 million in 71 projects located across 29 states to improve rural water infrastructure (PDF, 201 KB).
By Interior Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Staff at Devils Tower National Monument are closely monitoring peregrine falcons near the Tower. Although peregrine falcon behavior early in the season was consistent with courtship and breeding, biologists have determined that the pair on Devils Tower did not have a successful nest this year. Cold...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that TODD SCHLIFSTEIN, a doctor who practiced in Manhattan, pled guilty today to conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback Statute, in connection with a scheme to prescribe Subsys, a potent fentanyl-based...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement that William Wehrum is stepping down as Assistant Administrator for the EPA Office of Air and Radiation. Pallone and other Committee leaders launched an investigation in April of the Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG):
By DOE Newswire | Jun 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Energy markup on “H.R. 3432, the Safer Pipelines Act of 2019."
