News from May 2019
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee Greg Walden (R-OR) and the top Republican on the House Ways and Means Committee Kevin Brady (R-TX), along with Chairmen Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Richard E. Neal (D-MA), announced the solicitation for comments on draft legislation to reform and improve the Medicare Part D program that would establish an out-of-pocket cap for Medicare beneficiaries.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Two residents of Butler County, Pennsylvania, previously indicted in Pittsburgh on April 17, 2019, on charges of mail fraud, conspiracy to commit mail fraud, embezzlement from a healthcare benefit program, conspiracy to commit money laundering, money laundering, and making a false statement...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: NEW BERN - Robert J. Higdon, Jr., the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced MARK BASS, 59, of Creedmoor, North Carolina to 326 months’ imprisonment, followed by a lifetime of supervised released. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $75,000.00.
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler. The letter requests...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-Daniel Stewart Gregg, 67, of Ashland, Oregon, was sentenced today to 46 months in federal prison and two years’ supervised release for engaging in a conspiracy to traffic Oregon-grown marijuana across state lines.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that EDGARDO RIVERA, also known as “Eggy," 27, of Hartford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to fentanyl distribution and firearm possession offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Today, Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.), Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler. The letter requests...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control identified the Argentina-based Goldpharma drug trafficking and money laundering organization as a significant foreign narcotics trafficker pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act. OFAC also designated eight Argentine nationals for their role in the Goldpharma DTO/MLO, as well as nine entities located in Argentina, Colombia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced DETRICK DAYE, 23, of Wilmington to 162 months of imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release. On November 5, 2018...
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Republican Leader Bob Latta (R-OH), and Consumer Protection and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R-WA) released the following statement after 47 Democrats - led by Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) and Scott Peters (D-CA) - signed a letter to Democratic leadership looking to form a bipartisan working group to solve net neutrality.
By Commerce Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Summer Driving Dangers: Exploring Ways to Protect Drivers and Their Families:"
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Terrence Gunn, 31, of Aberdeen, Mississippi, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate to possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Brad L. Byerley with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - Four individuals were arrested yesterday on federal indictments alleging that they participated in corruption and fraud schemes centered at the District of Columbia’s Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR).
By Interior Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Saturday, June 1 is National Trails Day and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is building a new trail! It's not often you get the chance to help build a brand new hiking trail in a national park. The Kettles Trail in the Bow Lakes region of the park has been in the planning...
By DOJ Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Jaswinder Singh age 30, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has been charged in federal court in Syracuse with transporting aliens in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that the aliens were in the United States illegally, announced United States Attorney Grant C. Jaquith and U.S. Border Patrol Swanton Sector Chief Patrol Agent Robert Garcia.
By EPA Newswire | May 23, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Summer Driving Dangers: Exploring Ways to Protect Drivers and Their Families:"
By Homeland Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has finalized changes to fees charged by the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) to international students, exchange visitors and SEVP-certified schools. The new fees will take effect June 24, 2019.
By Interior Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - The National Park Service is seeking public comment on a draft plan that provides recommendations to improve accessibility of visitor services at Lake Mead National Recreation Area.
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - Darryl De’Monte Thompson, 30, of Jackson, pled guilty today before U.S. District Judge Carlton Reeves to armed robbery of a Dollar General store in Jackson and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Mike Hurst and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Freeze with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | May 22, 2019
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that James Smalley, 41, of Penn Yan, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with falsifying inspection reports for space parts. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
