News from January 2020
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Today, the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the House committees with jurisdiction over health care sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Eugene Scalia regarding challenges facing workers and retirees that can...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Solicited more than $1 million in investments - used more than $280,000 for own expenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announces that United States District Judge James C. Dever III sentenced WILMER LUIS MEJIAS, 44, of Fayetteville, NC, today. MEJIAS was sentenced to 97 months imprisonment followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - Renovations are underway to prepare a facility to process a high-dose portion of the site’s uranium-233 inventory, enabling EM to convert the material into a disposal-ready form after extracting an unprecedented amount of thorium for next generation cancer research.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Seattle - A Cocoa Beach, Florida, man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to wire fraud in connection with his million-dollar scheme to pose as a successful commodities trader, announced U.S. Attorney Brian T. Moran. MATTHEW WHITE, 27, accepted $1.29 million in investments from family...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Irvin Hudson, age 31, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 10 years in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a stolen firearm. The sentence was imposed on Jan. 17, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - A husband and wife from Monterrey, Mexico, have been ordered to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy and importing nearly $1 million in cocaine into the country, announced U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Patrick.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL) and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) announced today that the two subcommittees will hold a joint hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at 10 am in the John D. Dingell...
By EPA Newswire | Jan 21, 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 legislative hearing on Tuesday, Jan. 28, at 10:30 am...
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
Release: More information about Japan is available on the Japan country page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-An Oregon man was sentenced today to 149 months and 12 days in prison, to be followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for sex trafficking minors, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams of the District of Oregon announced.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Wilmington man was sentenced today to 84 months in federal prison for possessing child pornography and distributing the sexually explicit images of children to other internet users.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The first commissioning test package was recently approved for the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Analytical Laboratory, marking a significant step in the ongoing EM Office of River Protection (ORP) project transition from startup to commissioning.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Today, the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the House committees with jurisdiction over health care sent a letter to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar and U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Secretary Eugene Scalia regarding challenges facing workers and retirees that can...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Dr. Rajendra Bhayani, an otolaryngologist, has agreed to pay the United States $1,109,000 to resolve civil allegations that he and his practice - New York Otolaryngology & Aesthetic Surgery, P.C. in Brooklyn and Queens - paid kickbacks and submitted false claims to federal healthcare programs for services provided to residents in adult homes in violation of the False Claims Act.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Last Friday, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Congresswoman Annie Kuster (D-NH02), sent a letter to Uttam Dhillon, Acting Administrator of the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Medicine Chest Pharmacy in Fresno has agreed to pay $27,500 to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today. The settlement was reached in October, the sale of the pharmacy and its assets has recently been completed.
By State Newswire | Jan 21, 2020
Release: More information about Malaysia is available on the Malaysia country page and from other Department of State publications and other sources listed at the end of this fact sheet.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 20, 2020
News Release: MORGANTOWN, W.Va., Jan. 20, 2020 – Today, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) West Virginia State Director Kris Warner announced USDA has invested $18.7 million in a high-speed broadband infrastructure project that will create or improve rural e-Connectivity for more than 6,300 rural households and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 20, 2020
News Release: Attorney General William P. Barr issued the following statement: Today, we honor the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,” Dr. King wrote in his famous letter while confined to a narrow cell in the Birmingham city jail. In the face of grave ...
