News from May 2014
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- The owners and operators of Richard Joseph SalonSpas in the Birmingham area have agreed to plead guilty to a tax fraud conspiracy for failing to pay employment taxes to the IRS that they withheld from employees' wages over eight years, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: FARGO - U.S. Attorney Timothy Q. Purdon announced that on May 8, 2014 Nathan William Evenson, 27, Fargo, N.D., was sentenced to serve 12 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance, before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Thomas J. Cannon, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (“ATF"), and Chief Michael Clancy of the Town of Newburgh Police Department announced...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that two inmates of the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Mo., have been convicted in federal court of murdering another inmate at the facility.
By DOL Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: The House of Representatives is currently debating the Success and Opportunity through Quality Charter Schools Act (H.R. 10), legislation to bolster local charter school initiatives, aid the expansion and replication of successful charter school models, and improve charter school accessibility for some of the country’s most disadvantaged students.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Thursday, May 8, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. Carl F. Kieffer, 49, a resident of Spokane, Washington, pled guilty to three bank robberies on May 8, 2014, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Thomas Hamilton, a/k/a Thomas Smith, pleaded guilty today in federal court in San Francisco to two counts of wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag and FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Johnson.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - In a speech on the Senate floor today, Finance Committee Ranking Member Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) called on Congress to unite around the goal to create an internationally competitive tax code that would make the United States a more desirable location to headquarter one’s business.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Valley Forge, PA - The groundbreaking for Sullivan's Bridge, the new pedestrian/bicycle bridge across the Schuylkill River in Valley Forge National Historical Park, has been rescheduled for Wednesday, May 14 at 11:00 AM. The ceremony will take place on the construction site adjacent to the Betzwood Picnic...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JASON KONIOR, the founder and manager of a number of related business entities in New York City, collectively referred to as “Absolute," was sentenced yesterday in Manhattan federal court to 46 months in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, May 8, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that EDWIN CARTER, 51, of Hartford, pleaded guilty yesterday before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C.
By Homeland Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Neuroscience funding was one of several key priorities championed by Congressman Chaka Fattah (D-PA) that received a boost in today’s full Appropriations Committee markup of the FY 15 Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS) Appropriations Act. As Ranking Member of the CJS Subcommittee, Fattah helped steer...
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Admits Aiding and Abetting Unlawful Acquisition and Transportation of Three Mountain Lions.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ILLYA TRINCHER was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to six months in prison followed by six months’ home confinement in connection with his leadership role in the operation of a high-stakes illegal sports gambling business. TRINCHER was also ordered to forfeit approximately $6.4 million. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jesse M. Furman.
By US DOT Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: #WRRDA deal reached. Commence the signing. pic.twitter.com/itgUi813vC
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) made the following statement on the second anniversary of the U.S. having the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world.
By Commerce Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement on the April jobs report.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: Springdale, UT- In recognition of their quick actions and willingness to place themselves in positions of danger in an effort to save the life of another, Zion National Park Rangers Craig Thexton and Therese Picard are receiving Department of Interior Valor Awards.
By Interior Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - Smoke may be visible in the Grand Valley and Glade Park tomorrow from a prescribed fire planned on Black Ridge in the Bureau of Land Management McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area west of Grand Junction.
By DOJ Newswire | May 8, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Glen Lonardo, 48, of Cranston, owner of Buddha’s Bazaar in Cranston and XCitement Video and Smoke Shop in West Warwick, appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Lincoln D. Almond on a federal criminal complaint charging him with allegedly possessing synthetic drugs with the intent...
