News from December 2020
By DOL Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, key House and Senate Committee leaders announced a bipartisan agreement on legislation to protect patients from surprise medical bills and establish a fair framework to resolve payment disputes between health care providers and health insurance companies.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Today, key House and Senate Committee leaders announced a bipartisan agreement on legislation to protect patients from surprise medical bills and establish a fair framework to resolve payment disputes between health care providers and health insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Joshua Vega, age 28, of Troy, New York, was sentenced yesterday to 51 months in prison for possessing a firearm and ammunition as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI -United States Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert for the District of the Virgin Islands announced that Tashawn T.A. Warner was arrested today for his involvement in the Sept. 19, 2020 Gems & Gold Corner store robbery. He made his first appearance before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller this afternoon. A detention hearing is scheduled for Dec. 15, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Church Elder Ordered to Pay $11.7 Million in Restitution to Victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Miami, Fl. -- Today, 38-year-old rapper Lil Wayne pled guilty in federal district court to illegally possessing a loaded, gold-plated.45-caliber handgun while traveling to South Florida on a private plane last Christmas season.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Juan Saez, age 38, of Rochester, New York, was sentenced to serve 87 months in prison for receiving, possessing and storing firearms stolen from Target Sports, Inc., a federally licensed firearms dealer in Schenectady County.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On December 9 and 10, 2020, defendants Cynthia Clemons, Courtney Newman, and Holli Carmichael Womack, all of whom are nurse practitioners, were sentenced for their roles in prescribing massive quantities of opioids from pill mills in Knoxville, Tennessee. Clemons was sentenced to 42 months in prison, Newman was sentenced to 40 months in prison, and Womack received a sentence of 30 months in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - A Colombian national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for cocaine trafficking and illegal reentry charges.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: GULF BREEZE, FL. - After more than forty-three years of public service, Gulf Islands National Seashore Superintendent Dan Brown will retire on Jan. 2, 2021. Brown has been Gulf Islands’ superintendent since 2010, arriving just as the Deepwater Horizon oil washed ashore.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Jose Carlos Diaz Melendez, resident of Puerto Rico, appeared before United States Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller in the District Court and entered a guilty plea to the charge of concealing $287,660.00 in U.S. currency while onboard a vessel outfitted for smuggling in violation of Title 46, United States Code, Section 70503(a)(3), U.S. Attorney Gretchen C.F. Shappert announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senators Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Rob Portman (R-OH) introduced a bipartisan bill that would increase transparency and modernize how the government responds to cybersecurity incidents on federal information systems. According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), federal agencies’ information technology systems continue to face increasing risks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Memphis, TN - Kathryn Nikole Russell, 41, of Memphis, has been sentenced to 29 months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and dispense controlled substances. The defendant was charged in an April 2019 indictment as part of the first Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid (ARPO) Strike Force...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - A Wilmington, NC woman was sentenced yesterday to a total of 168 months in prison for distribution of a quantity of a mixture and substance containing heroin, acetyl fentanyl and fentanyl, possession with the intent to distribute 100 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing heroin, acetyl fentanyl and fentanyl and felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Change doesn’t happen on its own. It’s led by dedicated and passionate people who are championing innovative solutions to tribal energy challenges. Indian Energy Champions is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy blog series spotlighting innovators in Indian energy.
By State Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Dear Mr. President: On September 8, we wrote to you to express our deep concern over the Aug. 20, 2020 poisoning of leading Russian political activist Alexey Navalny with a Novichok chemical nerve agent. In that letter, we formally requested that the executive branch investigate whether Russia has...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, key House and Senate Committee leaders announced a bipartisan agreement on legislation to protect patients from surprise medical bills and establish a fair framework to resolve payment disputes between health care providers and health insurance companies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Today, North Alabama federal law enforcement agencies announced their participation and continuing engagement in the global law enforcement action against transnational money laundering and fraud perpetrated by “money mules". The local North Alabama offices of the United States Attorney’s...
By EPA Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) released the following statement today after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an emergency use authorization for Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine...
By DOE Newswire | Dec 11, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader for the 116th Congress Greg Walden (R-OR), Republican Leader for the 117th Congress Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Republican...
