News from March 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Tampa, FL - Attorney General William P. Barr and U.S. Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez today announced the largest coordinated sweep of elder fraud cases in history, surpassing last year’s nationwide sweep. The cases during this sweep involved more than 260 defendants from around the globe who victimized more than two million Americans, most of them elderly. Twenty individuals have been charged in the Middle District of Florida (see below for case summaries).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Largest Bribe Payment Ever Received by Individual Defendant in FCPA Case Russian Telecommunications Company Agreed to Pay More than $850 Million in Penalties, Including the Largest FCPA Criminal Penalty Ever Paid to the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Trent Shores announced today the results of the March 2019 Federal Grand Jury.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: Congressman Tim Ryan (D-OH), Chair of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on the Fiscal Year 2020 Budget Request for the Library of Congress.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue today appointed 31 members to the National Potato Promotion Board. Each representative will serve a three-year term of office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury returned an indictment on Feb. 27 charging an Alabama man, who was arrested earlier today, with production, distribution and receipt of child pornography, announced Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Jay E. Town and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp, Jr.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH), Chair of the Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on "Energy Workforce Opportunities and Challenges".
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing on “Wasted Energy: DOE’s Inaction on Efficiency Standards & Its Impact on Consumers and the Climate:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Derek Damuth, 25, of Lowville, N.Y., was charged today by a federal grand jury with possessing with the intent to distribute in excess of 40 grams of a mixture of fentanyl and heroin, along with possessing additional amounts of cocaine and marijuana, announced DEA New York Division Special...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that CHRISTOPHER HOWARD, a/k/a “Juju," a member of a violent, Bronx-based street gang known as “Money, Bitches, Guns" (“MBG"), was convicted yesterday of racketeering conspiracy, assault with a deadly weapon in aid of racketeering, and a firearms offense. HOWARD was convicted following a one-week trial before U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today to request information about its policies on the retention and disposition of electronic communications, including email, text messages, chat and instant messages and social media messages.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned an indictment charging LEVAN LOMTATIDZE, age 44, a citizen of the country of Georgia, MELISSA ANNE GODSHALL, age 31, a citizen of the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa.-A former resident of Pitcairn, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession with intent to distribute heroin and fentanyl, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks today at an Energy Subcommittee hearing on “Wasted Energy: DOE’s Inaction on Efficiency Standards & Its Impact on Consumers and the Climate:"
By USDA Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
Release: WASHINGTON, March 7, 2019 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating $7.1 million to Pennsylvania from Section 7721 of the Plant Protection Act as part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s infrastructure for pest detection and surveillance, identification, and threat mitigation, and ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: This hearing continues our inquiry into pharmaceutical pricing, which our full Committee began last month. I was encouraged at that hearing that a number of our colleagues from both parties reflected on the medication problems about which their own constituents have been expressing concern. Today, we...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: I would like to extend a warm welcome to Assistant Secretary Dan Simmons, who leads DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. I understand that Assistant Secretary Simmons was officially sworn in in January, so we’re glad that he’s finally in place to provide much needed leadership to EERE.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - A bipartisan group of Energy and Commerce leaders sent a letter to Indian Health Service (IHS) Acting Director Rear Admiral Michael D. Weahkee today requesting a briefing on reported medical errors and systemic failures at IHS hospitals, the corrective actions taken to date, and an...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on improving safe vehicle technology on Thursday, March 14, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell Room, 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The hearing will be entitled, “Enhancing Vehicle Technology to Prevent Drunk Driving."
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 7, 2019
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 26, a federal grand jury returned a 38-count indictment against U.S. and Philippines-based conspirators for operating a fraudulent scheme to import Native American-style jewelry and sell it to retail stores and individuals across the southwest United States as authentic jewelry made...
