News from January 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has indicted five individuals alleged to be members of one of the most prolific online drug trafficking organizations in the United States. The indictment was returned and unsealed in Cincinnati.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Defendant Carried A Fake Badge, Pulled Over A Vehicle, And Falsely Stated To Driver He Was A DEA Agent.
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW), delivered the following remarks at a hearing titled “One Year of Progress: An Update on Implementation of the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Matthew D. Krueger announced today that L.M.G., Inc., which does business as TMJ & Orofacial Pain Treatment Centers of Wisconsin, agreed to pay $1,000,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that TMJ & Orofacial Pain Treatment Centers of Wisconsin submitted false claims to Medicare and TRICARE for oral appliances used to treat temporomandibular joint disorder.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- Seven defendants are in custody after federal and state authorities made multiple arrests in Jonesboro this morning as part of an ongoing investigation. The portion of the investigation that concluded with today’s arrests resulted in the seizure of more than five pounds of methamphetamine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Portland, Maine: A Lawrence, Massachusetts man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Portland to conspiring to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Chairman Mike Doyle (D-PA) sent letters today to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) requesting briefings on the agencies’ ...
By DOE Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at a Health Subcommittee hearing on “Cannabis Policies for the New Decade:"
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man was charged in federal district court with Kidnapping of a Minor by a Registered Sex Offender and Transportation of a Minor with Intent to Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity by a Registered Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Four Houston men have been arrested on federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas announced. U.S. Attorney Joseph D. Brown.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following remarks, as prepared, on the House floor in support of H.Res. 798, a resolution appointing and authorizing managers for the impeachment trial of Donald John Trump...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Moses Lake Man Sentenced in Federal Court.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Last week, the Finance Committee and the Senate lost a dedicated public servant and all-around wonderful man, with the unexpected passing of Chris Allen.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), Chairman Eliot Engel (D-NY), Rep. Albio Sires (D-NJ), Rep. Francis Rooney (R-FL), Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI), and Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) of the House Foreign Affairs Committee expressed solidarity with Haitian human rights defender Pierre Espérance and condemned threats made against him following his Congressional testimony in December.
By State Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Washington-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today demanded documents from the Department of State connected to recently revealed records suggesting surveilling of and threats to the security of Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch before she was recalled from...
By US DOT Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: U.S. Rep. Sam Graves (R-MO), the Republican leader of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, released the following statement today upon the U.S. Senate’s confirmation of Peter Gaynor as the next Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA):
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced today that ResMed Corp., a manufacturer of durable medical equipment (DME) based in San Diego, California, has agreed to pay more than $37.5 million to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations for paying kickbacks to DME suppliers, sleep labs and other health care providers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On Jan. 13, 2020, Trevor Wesley Gabler, 29, of Phoenix, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to 54 months’ imprisonment. Gabler previously pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in connection with telemarketing. Four other defendants pleaded guilty and were previously...
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Mr. President, the Senate begins debate today on the new NAFTA. I’m going to have a lot to say between now and the final vote on passage, but let’s begin with the facts of how the new NAFTA got to this point.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 15, 2020
News Release: Spokane - William D. Hyslop, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Louis Mark Clark, age 28, of Nespelem, Washington, and an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, was sentenced after having pleaded guilty on Sept. 30, 2019...
