News from April 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that criminal proceedings have been initiated against Reynoso Matos, a/k/a Julio Eliezer Minyettis, age 35, a native and citizen of the Dominican Republic.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2014
News Release: Handywork for Earth Day: Garlic Mustard Pull.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Charleston, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Richard A. Mullins, John Freddie Joe Johnson, and Joseph James Salmons entered guilty pleas today in federal court to charges relating to the distribution of oxycodone in Lincoln County.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, as part of the ongoing investigation into the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., released a Committee staff report titled, “Debunking the Myth that the IRS Targeted Progressives: How the IRS and Congressional Democrats Misled America about Disparate Treatment."
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today made the following statement regarding the Senate’s vote to extend federal emergency unemployment insurance...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Monday, April 7, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. The United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today that Quinten M. Allen, 26, of Fairview Heights, was sentenced in the federal district...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: DRUGS, GUN AND SCALES SEIZED FROM HUNTINGTON RESIDENCE.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: On April 6, 2014, U.S. Commerce Department Secretary Penny Pritzker presented two U.S. organizations with the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation's highest honor for organizational innovation and performance excellence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Eric D. Smith, 43, of Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to a prison term of 6 ½ years on charges stemming from the stabbings of two people in separate robberies on back-to-back nights last December, one occurring outside of Gallery Place, and the other in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Was Wearing Polka Dot Dress and Wig During Robbery.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: The public comment period for the proposed regulations addressing candidate-related political activity by Code section 501(c)(4) organizations closed on Feb. 27, 2014. The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS") received over 150,000 public comments, an all-time record, the...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Washington -The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking comments on revised IMPS Series documents for fresh beef, lamb, veal, and pork. AMS maintains the IMPS, which standardize meat cut nomenclature and requirements, thereby providing a common trade language between buyers and sellers and facilitating marketing.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 “As I have consistently said, filling vacancies at DHS is essential to the continued success of this Department, and today I thank the Senate for confirming President Obama’s nominees to two key leadership positions at the Department of Homeland Security— Francis X. Taylor to be Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis and Dr. Reggie Brothers to be Under Secretary for Science and Technology.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Sign-Up Begins April 15 for Livestock, Honeybee, Fruit Grower Programs WASHINGTON, April 7, 2014 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that farmers and ranchers can sign-up for disaster assistance programs, reestablished and strengthened by the 2014 Farm Bill, beginning Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Quick implementation of the programs has been a top priority for USDA.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: As the April 15 tax filing deadline approaches, Attorney General Eric Holder warned U.S. tax filers to beware a “rising threat” of scammers seeking fraudulent refunds based on stolen identities, and vowed aggressive enforcement against the practice. Speaking in a recorded video message released on the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: The United States filed a complaint today seeking to bar Joyce Bougere-Keyes, and her business, Joyce Tax & Financial Service LLC, from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Tyson Hinckle, formerly an officer at Roxbury Correctional Institution (RCI) in Hagerstown, Md., to serve 30 months in prison for conspiring with other correctional officers to assault Kenneth Davis, an inmate. Hinckle and RCI officers from three different ...
By Fed Newswire | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced its approval of the application under section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act by Old National Bancorp, Evansville, Indiana, to merge with Tower Financial Corporation and thereby indirectly acquire Tower Bank and Trust Company, both of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: It is a true honor to receive the Harry S. Truman Award from such a highly-esteemed organization.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 7, 2014
News Release: Thank you, Dr. Benson. You have been a true champion for the Baldrige Award from when you first served as a judge in 1997 through your contributions as an overseer to your current work as Chair of the Board of the Foundation. As everyone here knows, the Baldrige Award program is a major undertaking – ...
