News from May 2019
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, DC- Today, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved a slate of bipartisan measures by voice vote, including the Full Utilization of the Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund Act, the DISASTER Act, the Transparency in Federal Buildings Projects Act of 2019, and nearly two dozen General Services Administration (GSA) Capital Investment and Leasing Program Resolutions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Men from Mansfield and Perry were indicted in federal court on child pornography charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Operation Triple Play dismantled a drug trafficking organization that imported significant quantities of heroin and cocaine from Mexico and distributed the drugs in 3 states.
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 2019
Release: Washington, DC, May 8, 2019 - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue met today with leaders from around the country to explore new ways to help low-income Americans access nutritious food and move to an independent and self-sufficient future.
By USDA Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Washington - Acting Assistant to the Secretary for Rural Development Joel Baxley today announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $68 million (PDF, 125 KB) to build or improve community facilities and essential services for nearly 715,000 rural residents in 13 states and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - A federal grand jury indicted Duane Kurt Makela on charges he committed five bank robberies in the San Francisco Bay Area, announced Adam A. Reeves, Attorney for the United States acting under authority conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 515, and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Erica H. MacDonald today announced a 33-count indictment charging ADAM M. LASHINSKI, 40, with filing false tax returns. LASHINSKI will make his initial appearance in U.S. District Court at a later date.
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The following are opening remarks, as prepared for delivery, from Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), and Chair of the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY) during today’s hearing titled: “The Cost of Doing Nothing: Maritime Infrastructure Vulnerabilities in an Emerging Arctic."
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: A South Florida patient recruiter was sentenced to 87 months in prison today for her role in a scheme involving approximately $1.6 million in Medicare claims for home health care services that were procured through the payment of kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Montana U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme discusses one-year results for Project Safe Neighborhoods Yellowstone County. On display are some of the firearms that have been seized in PSN cases.
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, spoke on the Senate floor today, chastising Republicans for jamming through Janet Dhillon to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission without a Democratic nominee.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that James Lebel, 40, formerly of Brooklyn, Connecticut, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for cashing more than $60,000 in stolen postal money orders.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Juan Antonio Perez has been indicted on charges that his construction company, Aztec Framing, which operated in northwest Georgia and eastern Tennessee, profited by employing illegal aliens and paying them below-market wages. He has also been charged with being an illegal alien in possession of 14 firearms. Federal law prohibits illegal aliens from possessing firearms.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) will present a new research and development (R&D) funding project focused on mobile network infrastructure during an Industry Day event on May 16 in Washington, D.C.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Dr. Devendra I. Patel, aka Devendrakumar I. Patel, a northern Nevada cardiologist was sentenced Tuesday to three years and one month in federal prison for prescribing highly addictive pain pills Oxycodone and Hydrocodone at a high rate to his patients without a medical purpose.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ADAM CLARKE, 38, of Norwich, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport to three years of probation, six months of home confinement and a $750 fine for assisting a drug dealer while Clarke was working as a state judicial marshal.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: New York Diagnostic Testing Facility Owners Plead Guilty in More than $18.5 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: COLUMBUS - The former treasurer of a non-profit dedicated to helping families of soldiers killed in the line of duty was sentenced Tuesday for stealing money from the organization, said Charles “Charlie" Peeler, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia. Dustin Campbell, 36, of Knoxville...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: ROME, Ga. - Juan Antonio Perez has been indicted on charges that his construction company, Aztec Framing, which operated in northwest Georgia and eastern Tennessee, profited by employing illegal aliens and paying them below-market wages. He has also been charged with being an illegal alien in possession of 14 firearms. Federal law prohibits illegal aliens from possessing firearms.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The House Appropriations Committee today released its reports accompanying the fiscal year 2020 Legislative Branch and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies appropriations bills.
