News from March 2020
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: FORT WAYNE - Demonta Huddleston, age 28, formerly of St. Joseph, Michigan was sentenced before U.S. District Court Judge Holly A. Brady to 120 months in prison upon his guilty plea to two distribution of a controlled substance charges, announced U.S. Attorney Kirsch.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - STG Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc. (“STG Healthcare") and two of its senior executives, Paschal “Pat" Gilley and Mathew Gilley, have agreed to pay $1.75 million to resolve allegations that STG Healthcare, operating as Interim Healthcare of Atlanta, submitted or caused the submission of false claims...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: ATLANTA - STG Healthcare of Atlanta, Inc. (“STG Healthcare") and two of its senior executives, Paschal “Pat" Gilley and Mathew Gilley, have agreed to pay $1.75 million to resolve allegations that STG Healthcare, operating as Interim Healthcare of Atlanta, submitted or caused the submission of false claims...
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Good morning and welcome to today’s hearing to review the state of the farm economy. Welcome also to our witness, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who will talk about where he sees the farm economy going in the coming year, as well as what’s going on over at the Department.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
Release: FOR INFORMATION AND ACTION. DA-2020-06. March 3, 2020To: State and Territory Agricultural Regulatory Officials Effective January 8, 2020, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM) expanded the European cherry fruit fly (ECFF) ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) reacted to the emergency supplemental funding package for the coronavirus.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Scott C. Blader, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Michael Hinze, 43, DeForest, Wisconsin, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 18 years in federal prison for receiving child pornography. Hinze faced a minimum of 15 years...
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 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 “Oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: TAMPA, Fla. -- Heidi Kalous, 39, of Dunedin, Florida, pleaded guilty to conspiring and distributing a substance that contained a mixture of heroin, fentanyl, and acetyl fentanyl, causing the death of an individual. She faces a maximum penalty of life in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A 55-count federal indictment with 24 defendants unsealed here today alleges that an inmate ran a drug ring in Wichita from a prison cell in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT) released the following statements on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) final rule to ban the use of electrical...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Jason E. Slocum, 44, of Wellsville, NY, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to being a felon in possession of firearms. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A 55-count federal indictment with 24 defendants unsealed here today alleges that an inmate ran a drug ring in Wichita from a prison cell in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: A local drug dealer convicted of killing a Dallas teenager was sentenced to life in federal prison Tuesday evening following an investigation by the FBI’s Dallas Violent Gangs Safe Streets Task Force, announced U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee examined the president’s fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The chairman also addressed his Cybersecurity Vulnerability Identification and Notification Act of 2019 legislation and the proposed transfer of Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) Chemical Security Inspectors into the same voluntary system used for other critical infrastructure sectors.
By DOE Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered the following opening remarks at an Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee hearing titled, “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reform: Addressing America’s Plastic Waste Crisis."
By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) reacted to the emergency supplemental funding package for the coronavirus.
By EPA Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks today at a Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee hearing on “Buyer Beware: Fake and Unsafe Products on Online Marketplaces:"
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the return of an indictment charging Kenyan Shondre Scott with 55 counts of aiding and assisting others with the filing of false tax returns and 4 counts of filing false tax returns on his own behalf. Each count carries a maximum penalty of three years’ imprisonment. The United States also seeks restitution for the tax losses arising out of the alleged criminal conduct.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 4, 2020
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Sens. John Kennedy (R-La.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, introduced an amendment to the American Energy Innovation Act that would direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to implement a phase down of the production ...
