News from January 2022
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
A Boston-area contractor who frequently traveled to Rhode Island to cash business checks at a check-cashing business as part of a scheme to not report or pay taxes on nearly $2 million in income was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Providence, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Energy and Commerce Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Energy Subcommittee legislative hearing titled, “Securing Our Energy Infrastructure: Legislation to Enhance Pipeline Reliability:”
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Members Express Concern over High Electric Bills, Underinvestment in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Power, and Inadequate Decarbonization Goals Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chair Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Environment and Climate Change Subcommittee Chairman Paul Tonko (D-NY) wrote to the CEO of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) today requesting information regarding business practices that appear inconsistent with TVA’s statutory requirement to provide low-cost power to residents of the Tennessee Valley and out of concern that TVA is interfering with the deployment of renewable and distributed energy resources.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The Committee Leaders Are Conducting an Ongoing Investigation into Aduhelm’s Controversial Approval Process Amid Concerns Over the Treatment’s Safety, Efficacy, and Cost Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and Reform Committee Chairwoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY) wrote to Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure today in support of the agency’s proposed National Coverage Determination (NCD) decision memo limiting Medicare coverage of Biogen’s controversial Alzheimer’s treatment, Aduhelm, to patients enrolled in qualifying clinical trials.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Four Anchorage individuals involved in a bribery and fraud scheme to obtain Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) government contracts with the U.S.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Todd Bussino, 38, of Mt. Holly, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 53 months’ imprisonment following his guilty plea to a charge that he robbed a Rutland-area convenience store with a knife last March.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
An Urbana, Illinois, man, Curtis Coleman, 38, of the 1800 block of Oliver Drive, pleaded guilty on January 14, 2022, to possession of controlled substances with the intent to distribute and possession of firearms and ammunition by a convicted felon.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Communications and Technology Subcommittee Ranking Member Bob Latta (R-OH), and Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Ranking Member Sam Graves (R-MO) and Aviation Subcommittee Ranking Member Garret Graves (R-LA) released the following joint statement regarding the Biden White House’s lack of leadership during the latest rollout of 5G technology:
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
U.S. District Judge Susan C. Bucklew has sentenced Louis Thornton III (63, St. Petersburg) to three years and six months in federal prison for fraudulently obtaining money through various Covid-19 relief programs, including the Small Business Administration (“SBA”) Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) and the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (“EIDL”) program.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Oklahoma collected $7,929,582 in criminal and civil actions and through asset forfeiture in Fiscal Year 2021, announced United States Attorney Robert J.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
On January 13, 2022, a jury found Mustafa Deville Reynolds, 23, of Grand Rapids, guilty of distributing heroin and fentanyl that caused the deaths of two men in Grand Rapids, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge. The two victims were 25 and 27 years old at the time of their deaths.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Andrew Daniels, age 41, an inmate at United States Penitentiary Canaan (USP Canaan), Waymart, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on January 14, 2022, to 31 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion for assaulting another inmate.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Richard Notarfrancesco, age 30, formerly of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on January 13, 2022, to 57 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion after pleading guilty to methamphetamine trafficking.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
An Idaho Falls man was sentenced to 68 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
A Saucier man was sentenced to 37 months in prison for being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, announced U. S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Kurt Thielhorn of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that two men were sentenced for fentanyl trafficking in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
An administrative assistant at a suburban Chicago medical practice has been sentenced to a year in federal prison for fraudulently writing opioid prescriptions to an acquaintance.AMANDA BIESIADA worked as an administrative assistant at Hinsdale Orthopaedics, a medical practice in Westmont, Ill.
By Andy Nghiem | Jan 19, 2022
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently renewed approvals for two herbicides for use on corn, cotton and soybeans to combat the emergence of broadleaf weeds among crops.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
An Owatonna man was sentenced to 31 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for possessing an unregistered firearm. Acting U.S. Attorney Charles J. Kovats made the announcement after U.S. District Judge Nancy E. Brasel sentenced the defendant.
By Press release submission | Jan 19, 2022
A Sydney man was sentenced today in federal court for making false statements with respect to work on a federally approved highway project, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.
