News from September 2014
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI) issued the following statement on the Administration’s comments on inversions and tax reform...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Harpers Ferry National Historical Park will host a Civil War 150th Anniversary event, Thunder in the Valley: Sheridan's 1864 Valley Campaign, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, on September 27 and 28, 2014. This event highlights Harpers Ferry's role as home base for Union General Philip Sheridan's 1864 Shenandoah...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Chairman Camp’s Remarks on the Official Portrait Unveiling.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) delivered the following statement on the House floor today in support of H.R. 2, the American Energy Solutions for Lower Costs and More American Jobs Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) sent a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen highlighting his concerns with the time and money the IRS spends annually on National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) activity. The IRS has estimated...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alysa D. Erichs, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (ICE-HSI), Scott Israel, Sheriff, Broward Sheriff’s Office, and Frank Fernandez, Chief, Hollywood Police...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Ian B. Wait, 24, of Lincoln, Nebraska was sentenced for distributing child pornography. The Honorable Richard G. Kopf, Senior United States District Court Judge sentenced Wait to prison for 135 months. There is no parole in the federal prison system. After his release from prison Wait will begin a 15 year term of supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - A dispatcher with the Shreveport Fire Department has pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today.
By State Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will serve on the Escort Committee to welcome the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko, to address a Joint Session of Congress. Chairman Royce issued the following statement on President Poroshenko’s official visit to the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: CHICAGO ― A high-ranking leader of the Traveling Vice Lords street gang who directed a violent west side drug-trafficking conspiracy was sentenced today to 35 years in federal prison after a judge ruled that he “very likely" murdered an off-duty Chicago police detective and a woman in August 2008.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Ranking Member Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Senator Jack Reed (D-RI), and Senator Johnny Isakson (R-GA) applauded Senate passage of the bipartisan Sunscreen Innovation Act just hours after it was passed by the HELP Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: Forty-count Indictment Alleges Drug Distribution and Money Laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Alejandro Carrillo, 37, of El Paso, Texas, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The former bookkeeper at Saint Gabriel the Archangel Church and School was charged today, by federal grand jury, with embezzling $83,191 in funds from the Louisville parish by means of wire fraud announced David J. Hale, United States Attorney for the Western District of Kentucky.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - On Sept. 16, 2014, a federal grand jury in the District of Puerto Rico returned an indictment against state criminal defense attorney, Lemuel Velilla Reyes, charged with concealing a person from arrest, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Ivan Espinoza Villafana, 24, of Mexico, charging him with conspiracy to manufacture marijuana, manufacture of marijuana, possession of a firearm by an illegal alien, and depredation of public lands and resources, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C., Sept. 18, 2014 - Today, the House Natural Resources Committee passed H.R. 5476, the Cabin Fee Act of 2014, by unanimous consent. This bill, sponsored by Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04), modifies the current cabin fee formula to make it more predictable and fair for families who own cabins in our National Forests.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: BOISE -Jose Luis Rodriguez-Nava, 26, a Mexican National, was sentenced to 84 months in prison for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief U.S. District Judge B. Lynn...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-At the Senate HELP Committee hearing “Fulfilling the Promise: Overcoming Persistent Barriers to Economic Self-Sufficiency for People with Disabilities," Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, unveiled a report that he...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 18, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), as Chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released a new report on an investigation he called for regarding the barriers that people with disabilities face as they seek to rise out of poverty and enter the middle...
