News from February 2020
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) released the following statement in response to President Trump's call to pass America's Transportation Infrastructure Act (ATIA) during his State of the Union address. Barrasso is chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW).
By DOL Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: CAMP HILL, PA - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Cleveland Brothers Inc. - doing business as CB HYMAC - for exposing workers to hexavalent chromium fumes and other safety hazards at the company's shop in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. OSHA cited...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: A number of prime cleanup contractors across the EM complex exceeded annual goals for subcontracting with small businesses in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., was indicted by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: PORTERVILLE, Calif., Feb. 4, 2020 - You can help shape the future of Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) use within the Sequoia National Forest and the Bureau of Land Management Bakersfield Field Office jurisdiction.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, ahead of President Trump's third State of the Union Address to Congress, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) are sending the message that Americans ...
By DOE Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) miners recently reached a milestone when they completed a “rough cut," shaping the next area where transuranic waste will be emplaced 2,150 feet beneath the surface.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to over 21 years in prison for his role in a large-scale heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: A federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania returned an indictment against a former senior executive for his role in conspiracies to fix prices, rig bids, and allocate customers for generic drugs, and for making a false statement to federal agents who were investigating those conspiracies, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Mack A. Tagg, of Moundsville, West Virginia, was indicted today on firearms charges, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Wife Sentenced Earlier for $885,000 Medicaid Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities this morning arrested two defendants charged in a scheme that generated millions of dollars through an Orange County compound pharmacy that submitted fraudulent bills to the military’s TRICARE health plan and a labor union health plan for medically unnecessary compound cream prescriptions. Two other defendants named in a 48-count grand jury indictment are expected to surrender tomorrow.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Washington - Oversight and investigations staff for Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), today received a classified briefing from the HHS Office of National Security (ONS) regarding the coronavirus threat and the status of U.S. government efforts to combat the spread of the deadly virus.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A licensed acupuncturist was sentenced late this afternoon to 30 months in federal prison for fraudulently billing Amtrak’s health care plan for $7.1 million in acupuncture, massages and facials that either were medically unnecessary or were never provided.
By US DOT Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) released the following statement on the President’s State of the Union address...
By EPA Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at 10:00 am in the John...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal announced today that the Committee will hold a hearing on “The Disappearing Corporate Income Tax". The hearing will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2020 at 10:00 a.m. in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Kelly D. Brady, Special Agent in Charge, ATF Boston Field Division, announced that RODNEY BECKMAN, 44, of Hartford, pleaded guilty today in New Haven federal court to distributing crack cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 4, 2020
News Release: BOSTON - Officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) removed an illegally present Brazilian citizen Feb. 4, who is wanted in his home country on charges of kidnapping and robbery.
