News published on Federal Newswire in October 2020

News from October 2020


Bozeman doctor admits unlawful drug dispensing at weight loss clinics

News Release: BILLINGS - A Bozeman doctor today admitted charges that he illegally dispensed appetite suppressant drugs at two weight loss clinics in Bozeman and Billings, U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme said.


News Release: Audrey Strauss, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DAVID HARDY, a/k/a “Mooka," MARQUIS COLLIER, JERMAINE HUGHLEY, a/k/a “Blacks," and SINCERE SAVOY, a/k/a “Bitty," pled guilty to participating in the murder of Shamoya McKenzie, a 13-year-old...


USDA and FDA Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Enhance Collaboration, Efficiency on U.S. Dairy Exports

News Release: Washington - Today, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) outlining strengthened coordination between the FDA and the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) and Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) to facilitate the export of milk and milk products from the United States. U.S. dairy exports are valued at nearly $6 billion annually.


News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Generating Equity: Improving Clean Energy Access and Affordability:"


News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Generating Equity: Improving Clean Energy Access and Affordability."


News Release: Washington, D.C. - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Dr. Michael Burgess (R-TX) released the following statement after the House passed 16 bipartisan health bills from the Energy and Commerce Committee. Last week, the House passed ten bipartisan bills from the Health Subcommittee.


Grassley, Daines and Roberts Introduce Updated Bill to End Abuse of Conservation Easements

News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Sen. Steve Daines (F-Mont.) and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) reintroduced the Charitable Conservation Easement Program Integrity Act, which will protect conservation easements from abuse, save taxpayers billions of dollars and promote conservation around the country.


E&C Leaders Demand Answers Following Alarming Reports of Improper Medical Care at DHS Facility

News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA), and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO) wrote to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Secretary Chad Wolf today following alarming allegations of widespread...


News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) delivered remarks at an Energy Subcommittee hearing entitled, “Generating Equity: Improving Clean Energy Access and Affordability."


Jacksonville Man Sentenced To More Than 12 Years In Federal Prison For Selling Cocaine

News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis today sentenced Darryle Lavance Evans (47, Jacksonville) to 12 years and 7 months in federal prison for distributing cocaine. At the time Evans committed this offense, he was on federal supervised release resulting from a previous federal drug...


News Release: BOSTON - Two Wareham residents were arrested today and charged in connection with selling fentanyl, including to a 42-year-old man who died of an apparent overdose.


Pallone & Eshoo on House Passage of 16 Health Care Bills

News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) released the following joint statement today after the House of Representatives passed 16 health care bills on the Floor this week...



News Release: Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Energy Subcommittee hearing titled, “Generating Equity: Improving Clean Energy Access and Affordability:"


Maryland Woman Pleads Guilty to Committing Health Care Fraud

News Release: WASHINGTON - Janet Olatimbo Akindipe, 62, of Laurel, Maryland, pleaded guilty today in federal court to defrauding the D.C. Medicaid program out of more than a quarter million dollars.


News Release: Washington, DC - Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Greg Walden (R-OR) and Environment and Climate Change Republican Leader John Shimkus (R-IL) released the following statement.


News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ABBAS MOHAMMADI, DDS, and his businesses, COLUMBIA DENTAL, P.C. and COLUMBIA ORAL MAXILLOFACIAL IMAGING, L.L.C., have entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments and paid $300,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the federal and state False Claims Acts.


News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Portsmouth man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for discharging a firearm in relation to a drug-trafficking crime.


News Release: Government Continues Crackdown on People Who Defraud Medicaid.


Golden Gate National Recreation Area Announces Availability of the CERCLA Administrative Record File for the Hawk Hill Nike Radar Site

News Release: SAN FRANCISCO, CA - The National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of the Administrative Record File for public information on the Hawk Hill Nike Radar Site. This former military site overlooks the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge in the Marin Headlands Unit of Golden Gate National Recreation...