News from March 2019
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the top Republican on the Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement after the United States won a dispute ruling against China at the World Trade Organization (WTO) regarding Chinese agriculture subsidies...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, ME -Acadia National Park announced the release of the Final Transportation Plan and accompanying Environmental Impact Statement (Final Plan/EIS) today. The Final Plan/EIS is the culmination of a planning effort that began in summer 2015 and included a great deal of time, energy, collaboration...
By DOE Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: Cincinnati - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced the award of a contract to Technical Resources Group, Inc. for support services under the DOE Office of Packaging and Transportation’s TEPP program.
By State Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
Release: Section 4 of the Reciprocal Access to Tibet Act of 2018 of P.L. 115-330, enacted on Dec. 19, 2018, requires the Department of State to provide a report to Congress, within 90 days of enactment and annually thereafter for five years, regarding the level of access Chinese authorities granted U.S. diplomats and officials, journalists, and tourists to Tibetan areas in China. This report covers the period of 2018, with comparisons to 2017 as applicable.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Duke University has agreed to pay the government $112.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by submitting applications and progress reports that contained falsified research on federal grants to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Thompson, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Atchison man was sentenced Monday to nine years in federal prison for trafficking in methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - Shade Carlton Workman, 46, a Virginia State Police Special Agent, who was recently the commander of the Tazewell County High Intensity Drug Task Force, was convicted on Friday, March 22, 2019, following a five-day jury trial, of federal bribery, obstruction of justice, and making...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Darnell Ray Owens, 32, of Sacramento, was arrested March 22 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, after being charged in Sacramento with mailing threatening communications and a hoax involving biological weapons, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, Chief United States District Judge Terrence W. Boyle sentenced BRANDON RAUL NAVARRO, 29, of Sanford, North Carolina to 180 months’ imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: ROCKFORD - A Chicago man was arrested Friday after being indicted on charges of bank theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - First Assistant United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced today the filing of federal charges in connection with a health care fraud scheme involving Liberation Way, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation organization that had treatment centers in Yardley, Bala Cynwyd, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that on March 22, 2018, HECTOR ALFONSO, 37, of Manchester, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 153 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for offenses related to a December 2016 shooting in Hartford’s South End, and for violating the conditions of his supervised release from a prior federal conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: Patrick Ho, Former Head Of Organization Backed By Chinese Energy Conglomerate, Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For International Bribery And Money Laundering Offenses.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY-17) and Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) released the following statement on Senate Republicans’ emergency supplemental appropriations bill for disaster relief and recovery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Cynthiana man, who previously admitted to attempting to entice minors to permit him to engage in illicit sexual conduct, has been sentenced to 210 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, issued the following statement upon the passing of Judge James C. Fox.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States has filed a complaint under the False Claims Act against Wheeling Hospital, Inc., R & V Associates, Ltd. (R & V), and Ronald Violi in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the Department of Justice announced today. The government has alleged...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2019
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Jesus Francisco Fernandez, 59, of Pueblo. Colo., was convicted by a federal jury in Albuquerque last Wednesday of possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 24, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, released the following statement on the conclusion of the Special Counsel’s investigation...
