News from September 2019
By EPA Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee markup today of 15 bills to address key environmental problems of the past, present, and future.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces a significant health care fraud and opioid enforcement operation across the Middle District of Florida, involving charges against seven individuals for their alleged involvement in various schemes to defraud Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal health care benefit programs, and in various conspiracies to illicitly obtain and distribute oxycodone and other controlled substances.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, issued the following statement reacting to the Environmental Protection Agency's letter today to California, purportedly expressing concerns about state-level environmental enforcement. This ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Derick Thomas Cumbie, a 26 year old resident of Mobile, Alabama was sentenced to 37 months of incarceration for possession of a firearm after being convicted of five felonies, namely, Theft of Property in 2018, Theft of Property in 2012, Burglary Third Degree in 2018, Receiving Stolen Property First Degree in 2018 and Unlawful Possession of a Controlled Substance in 2012.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Communications and Technology and Consumer...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Federal Health Care Fraud Takedown in Northeastern U.S. Results in Charges Against 48 Individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Illegally Worked under a False Name and Someone Else’s Social Security Number One Month After Illegally Entering the United States with a Minor Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Seven men, all from Waterloo, Iowa, were sentenced over the last fifteen months in federal court in Cedar Rapids based on their involvement in a crack cocaine trafficking conspiracy. Evidence from various hearings showed the investigation, which was a cooperative effort of numerous law enforcement agencies, included use of wiretaps and confidential sources.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla. - Robert Patrick Jensen, 49, and Michael T. Harris, 44, both of Gulf Breeze, Florida, appeared in federal court this week for their initial appearances after they were indicted by a federal grand jury in Pensacola on charges of acquiring controlled substances by fraud and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sept. 26, 2019 - Three mid-state individuals are facing federal bank robbery charges following the Tuesday afternoon robbery of the Citizen’s Bank of Carthage, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: The former Allen County Sheriff was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for asking for and taking bribes from people arrested in prostitution stings, suspected gamblers and others.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven today sentenced Richard Buffington (49, Clearwater) to 46 months in federal prison for committing wire fraud. The court also ordered Buffington to forfeit more than $1.2 million, which is traceable to the proceeds of the offense, and to pay more than $1.2 million in restitution to the victims of his fraud scheme.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) announces a new member of the senior staff for the committee Republicans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Authorities this morning arrested five defendants charged in a federal grand jury indictment alleging they took part in a drug trafficking ring that imported pound quantities of cocaine and heroin from Mexico, then used modified BMW “trap cars" to distribute those drugs throughout the United States.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) gave the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee markup of 15 bills...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was sentenced in federal court in Boston on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2019, for trafficking in cocaine while on supervised release from an earlier federal drug trafficking conviction.
By EPA Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement applauding the passage of the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act (H.R. 2699) during a subcommittee markup today of 15 environment bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla - A federal grand jury returned an indictment, charging five defendants with federal drug trafficking offenses.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee markup today of 15 bills to address key environmental problems of the past, present, and future.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 26, 2019
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) gave the following opening remarks today at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee markup of 15 bills...
