News from October 2019
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - The former CEO of a Missouri hospital pleaded guilty today for his role in a pass-through billing scheme in which the hospital was used to submit fraudulent claims for toxicology and blood testing, resulting in multiple insurance companies and the Missouri Medicaid program paying over $100 million in claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: FBI Media Alert: FBI, Los Lunas Police Look for Man Who Robbed Credit Union.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: The former Acting Police Chief of Olney, Texas has pleaded guilty to threatening an individual at gunpoint following an investigation by the FBI Dallas Field Office, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Jordanian National was sentenced to 36 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to bring aliens to the United States and actually bringing Yemeni aliens through Mexico to the United States.
By US DOT Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Today, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure approved a slate of bipartisan measures by voice vote, including the Water Quality Protection and Job Creation Act; Funding Instruction for Safety, Health, and Security Avoids Fishing Emergencies Act, and a resolution expressing support for designation of October 28th as “Honoring the Nation’s First Responders Day."
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Wichita man is set to appear in federal court Wednesday on charges of robbing two businesses, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: FBI Crime in the United States Report Shows 3.9 Drop in Violent Crime in 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that William Barratt, age 39, of Sugarloaf Township, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on Oct. 28, 2019, to receiving child pornography before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley.
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: SUSANVILLE, Calif. - Public riding and driving will be limited in parts of the Bureau of Land Management’s Fort Sage Off-Highway Vehicle area near Doyle, during the “Fight at the Fort" off-road-vehicle race, set for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1-2.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - EM Paducah Site General Engineer April Ladd overcomes challenges.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: 10:00 a.m. 1300 Longworth House Office Building. WITNESS LIST. Mr. Steve Pierson, Owner, Sar-Ben Farms, Inc., Saint Paul, Oregon, and Board Director, CROPP Cooperative. Mr. Jeff Huckaby, President, Grimmway Enterprises, Inc., Bakersfield, California. Mr. Benjamin Whalen, Farmer and Owner, Bumbleroot...
By Interior Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Tumacácori National Historical Park will offer visitors two special opportunities this Veterans Day weekend - a free shuttle to transport hikers between the Tubac Presidio and Tumacácori, and free entrance to Tumacácori for all visitors.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Central Texas criminal defense lawyer was found guilty of federal violations related to an international fraud scheme involving his Colombian cocaine trafficking clients, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno of the Dallas Field Office today.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: An employee became ill while performing extreme physical activity in excessive temperatures in July 2019 and later died. OSHA cited the Anson, Maine-based company for two serious safety and health violations for failing to protect workers from hazards associated with heavy physical activity in extreme heat conditions, and ensure medical care was available. The utility pole inspection company faces $18,564 in penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A Central Texas criminal defense lawyer was found guilty of federal violations related to an international fraud scheme involving his Colombian cocaine trafficking clients, announced U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown and FBI Special Agent in Charge Matthew J. DeSarno of the Dallas Field Office today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- A Roland man has been convicted of enticing a minor to engage in sexual activity after exchanging messages with an undercover investigator.
By DOE Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - EM and its Idaho National Laboratory Site contractor Fluor Idaho hosted two DOE complex-wide events last week, a safety culture workshop and information technology (IT) collaboration meeting.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Owners of Greensboro Temporary Staffing Firms Indicted for Employment Tax Fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.-Today, Senator Murray, ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, spoke on the Senate floor about Democrats’ plans to force Republicans to vote tomorrow on a Congressional Review Act resolution to roll back the Trump administration’s 1332 waiver rule, ...
By Commerce Newswire | Oct 29, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, the Acting Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, and Rep. Harley Rouda, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Environment, issued statements after Ranking Member Jim Jordan led Committee Republicans in a failed attempt to shut down a hearing examining the Trump Administration’s efforts to roll-back California’s fuel efficiency standards.
