News from May 2019
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Lawsuit Includes 56 Facilities in Ohio.
By DOE Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following remarks on the House Floor during consideration of H.R. 986, Protecting Americans with Pre-Existing Conditions Act...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, John C. Demers, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and John Brown, Assistant Director of...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - U.S. Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Dr. Domenick Braccia, 57, of Perkasie, PA entered a plea of guilty before Judge Wendy Beetlestone on one count of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. The charges against the defendant stem from federal and state investigations into an elaborate insurance fraud scheme involving a Bucks County-based addiction treatment center, Liberation Way.
By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) released the following statement on the House passing H.R. 968, the Protecting Americans with Preexisting Conditions Act...
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice Files Lawsuit Alleging Disability-Based Discrimination by Owners and Developers of 82 Apartment Complexes in 13 States.
By EPA Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Four bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders sent a letter today to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai urging the agency to closely examine the security of fifth-generation (5G) infrastructure and technology as part of the newly rechartered Communications Security, Reliability and Operability Council (CSRIC), CRSRIC VII.
By Commerce Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: The Department of Energy’s 32-billion-dollar budget proposal serves as a reminder of the broad range of defense, science, energy and environmental activities the agency pursues to perform its important national and energy security missions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: A man who assaulted his pregnant girlfriend while on federal supervision was sentenced on May 8, 2019, to two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: HAMMOND- Michael Terrance Henderson, 43, of Gary, Indiana, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James T. Moody after pleading guilty to possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number and possession of a stolen firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | May 9, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Binghamton, N.Y., man who posed online as a teenage girl was sentenced in federal court today for attempting to produce child pornography by tricking children - including three victims in Sedalia, Mo. - into sending him nude images of themselves.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Minority Business Owners Targeted. GREENSBORO, N.C. - Eleven individuals from Durham were indicted May 3, 2019, on federal charges relating to a series of violent robberies, announced Matthew G.T. Martin, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina and John A. Strong, Special Agent...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: BILLINGS-In the one year that Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federal initiative, has been at work in Yellowstone County, law enforcement has dismantled methamphetamine trafficking rings, seized hundreds of pounds of methamphetamine and numerous firearms, and prosecuted more than 200 violent offenders, top federal, state and local prosecutors announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Concord, NH - “Fugitive of the Week," Joslynn Doliber, 33, heard that she was the “Fugitive of the Week," saw the poster and did the right thing by turning herself in to the Carroll County Sheriff’s Office. Doliber surrendered this morning at the Ossipee District Court in Ossipee, NH, where she was processed on the outstanding warrant. Ms. Doliber had been sought on an outstanding arrest warrant alleging she possessed fentanyl with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Michigan Man Sentenced for Unlawfully Importing and Distributing Misbranded Drugs.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2019
Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - An Erie, Pennsylvania, man was arrested by police after Transportation Security Administration officers stopped him from bringing a loaded handgun onto an airplane at Buffalo-Niagara International Airport on Tuesday, May 7.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today the alleged owners and operators of a website known as DeepDotWeb (DDW) have been arrested on charges of money laundering conspiracy relating to millions of dollars in kickbacks they received for purchases of fentanyl, heroin, and other illegal contraband by individuals referred to Darknet marketplaces by DDW. The website has now been seized by court order.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Salina man unlawfully received controlled prescription drugs from his wife, who was a pharmacist, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening remarks during a markup of a committee report and resolution recommending that the U.S. House of Representatives find Attorney General William Barr in contempt for refusal to comply with a subpoena duly issued by the Committee on the Judiciary for the full, unredacted Mueller report...
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of its 302(b) subcommittee allocations.
