News from July 2014
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDREW MORRISON, also known as “Big Booby," 25, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge...
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Copper Center, AK - Plans for a federal subsistence hunt for the Chisana caribou herd were announced today by Wrangell-St. Elias Superintendent Rick Obernesser, the designated federal manager for the hunt. The Federal Subsistence Board authorized a limited harvest from the Chisana caribou herd at its...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement after President Obama signed into law the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA). The bill seeks to update and improve the nation’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Muskogee, Oklahoma - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that CHUCK ALLEN EASTHAM, age 41, of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, pled guilty to Felon in Possession of a Firearm, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 922(g)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Richard Haines, Jr., 60, of Lancaster, PA, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for possession of child pornography and enticing a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct so that he could take pictures of the conduct and with possession of child pornography. He pleaded guilty on September 4...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: It is neither unusual nor surprising that companies seek to lower their taxes. But in recent years, a growing number of big corporations have taken that effort to the extreme by reincorporating overseas in order to reduce or entirely avoid paying their fair share of U.S. taxes. The practice, known as...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: The U.S. tax code is infected with the chronic diseases of loopholes and inefficiency. These infections are hobbling America’s drive to create more good-wage, red, white and blue jobs here at home. They are a significant drag on the economy and are harming U.S. competitiveness. The latest outbreak of this contagion is the growing wave of corporate inversions, where American companies move their headquarters out of the U.S. in pursuit of lower tax rates.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: NEW YORK - A new National Park Service (NPS) report shows that 10,989,480 visitors to the 10 national parks in and around New York Harbor in 2013 spent $341.6 million in communities near the parks. That spending supported 3,753 jobs in the local area.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Justice Department today announced it has reached an agreement with the city of Newark, New Jersey, to address a pattern and practice of unconstitutional policing by the Newark Police Department (NPD). The agreement follows a joint investigation by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, the results of which were also released today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Fifteen-month ATF Led Multi-agency Investigation Resulted In The.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that a California man was convicted yesterday in a case involving the trafficking of methamphetamine in Anchorage. A federal trial jury found David Alan Gonzales guilty of drug trafficking conspiracy and possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard sentenced Christopher Scott O’Brien, II (23, St. Johns County) to 8 years and 4 months in federal prison for receiving child pornography over the Internet. O’Brien was also ordered to serve a 10-year term of supervised release and register as a sex offender following his release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Sex Trafficking Victims Testified to Defendant’s Physical and Sexual Abuse, Threats, Tattoo Branding, and Bragging About Beating Murder Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - The former Director of Financial Aid for Merrimack College was charged yesterday with fraudulently obtaining funding for the North Andover school’s students.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.--U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Eugene Louis Thompson, 47, of Rochester, N.Y., was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with making a false written statement to the United States and falsely claiming to be a United States Citizen. The false statement charge...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., MD (R-LA) requested Democracy 21 provide all communications, including emails, between the advocacy group and former IRS Exempt Organizations Director Lois Lerner. Camp and Boustany...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a registered sex offender in Springfield, Mo., was indicted by a federal grand jury today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Anthony...
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) and Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany Jr., M.D. (R-LA) announced a series of requests to the Administration on the destroyed IRS emails...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 22, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) released the following statement today following rulings from the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals (King v. Burwell) and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (Halbig v. Burwell) regarding the use of tax credits on state-based Health...
