News from May 2019
By Commerce Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on “Undermining Mercury Protections: EPA Endangers Human Health and the Environment."
By Interior Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The Acadia National Park Advisory Commission will meet at park headquarters (20 McFarland Hill Drive) in Bar Harbor at 1 - 3 p.m. on Monday June 3, 2019. The meeting is open to the public and will include an opportunity for public comments.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A Topeka man pleaded guilty Tuesday to cyberstalking and distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Kevin Livsey was sentenced to 19 years and two months (230 months) in federal prison for committing fentanyl and heroin trafficking and firearm crimes while on federal supervised release for heroin trafficking crimes, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Sentencing is scheduled for Aug. 12, 2019, for Kenric Lee, age 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, who pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court Thursday to voluntary manslaughter.
By DOE Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today chaired a hearing of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee to examine opportunities to advance renewable energy and energy efficiency efforts in the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: Jackson, TN - Robert Newsome, 36, has been sentenced to 220 months imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine. U.S. Attorney D. Michael Dunavant for the Western District of Tennessee announced the sentence today. This is the latest sentencing in a case involving ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 21, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A U.S. Postal Service (USPS) employee has been sentenced in federal court in Boston with embezzling over $18,000.
By State Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: Dear Mr. President: At a time of grave insecurity in the Middle East, we are deeply concerned about the role that terrorist and extremist groups and U.S. adversaries continue to play, particularly in Syria. As some of our closest allies in the region are being threatened, American leadership and support...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: Deported following criminal convictions in 2011 and 2013.
By US DOT Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today formally announced new appointments to the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Drone Advisory Committee (DAC).
By Homeland Newswire | May 20, 2019
Release: Congresswoman Nita M. Lowey (D-NY), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, delivered the following remarks at the Committee's markup of the fiscal year 2020 Defense bill.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: A New London, North Carolina, woman pleaded guilty to employment tax fraud, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Matthew G.T. Martin of the Middle District of North Carolina. Terra Dawn Ferguson pleaded guilty to one count of failing to collect, account for, or pay over payroll taxes for the employment tax quarter ending Dec. 31, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: An owner of a now-defunct Miami, Florida, home health care agency was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his participation in a scheme that caused Medicare to pay approximately $1 million in false and fraudulent claims for home health care services that were never provided. Assistant Attorney ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr today announced the third annual Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service in Policing. The Attorney General’s Award recognizes individual state, local or tribal sworn, rank- and-file police officers, deputies and troopers for exceptional efforts in community ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: The Department of Justice announced today that it has filed an unopposed motion to intervene in a private antitrust class action challenging alleged agreements between Duke University (Duke) and the University of North Carolina (UNC) not to compete for each other’s medical faculty. At the same time, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: A Southfield, Michigan-based doctor pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme involving approximately $2.5 million in fraudulent Medicare claims for home health and physician services that were medically unnecessary, not provided and procured through the payment of illegal kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: Thank you for that kind introduction. I am pleased to be here as I begin my first visit to China in any capacity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: A Stuart man pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 20, 2019
News Release: Raylaine Knope, 42, and Terry J. Knope II, 45, pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Louisiana to criminal civil rights charges arising from their abuse of an adult woman with cognitive disabilities. Both defendants pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring to obtain forced, unpaid household ...
