News from December 2015
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The 93rd National Christmas Tree Lighting will be held on Thursday, December 3rd beginning at 5 p.m. on the Ellipse in President’s Park. The National Park Service, United States Park Police and United States Secret Service are working in collaboration with local and federal law enforcement...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on lessons learned from welfare reforms in other countries.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Dear Mr. Slavitt: We write to you today concerning proposed changes to payments for accessories related to Complex Rehabilitation Technology (CRT), specifically complex rehabilitative power wheelchairs. As you know, the Social Security Act excludes certain complex rehabilitative power wheelchairs and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Edward Belczak, 70, the former priest of St. Thomas More Church in Troy, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for stealing $572,775 from his parish, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Sekouba Konate, 51, the former President of Guinea in West Africa and current General Commander of the Security Forces of the African Union, pleaded guilty today to charges of bulk cash smuggling and false statements.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: It is reassuring news that the reconciliation bill coming before the Senate is guaranteed to get the veto stamp on the President’s desk. That’s because it undermines women’s health, it would mean millions more Americans without insurance, and it threatens to send premiums shooting upward.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - RODNEY TYLER was sentenced to 65 months in prison involving a bank fraud and identity theft scheme. Tyler and his associates used the identification of multiple individuals obtained from stolen credit cards, bank debit cards and state issued driver’s licenses to steal funds held in individual bank accounts.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -The Arizona Department of Transportation has closed State Route 67 between Jacob Lake and the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park. The North Rim is now closed to vehicle traffic for the winter. State Route 67 and all services on the North Rim are expected to re-open for the 2016 season on Sunday May 15, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) delivered the following opening statement during a hearing on the final recommendations recently issued by the OECD on their Base Erosion and Profits Shifting (BEPS) project.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - BRIAN PALUCH, former Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President of PARIC Construction, was sentenced late yesterday to 38 months in prison on charges involving his scheme to use the company’s corporate funds to pay his own personal expenses during the period January 2010 through February 2014. In addition to the prison sentence, he was ordered to pay $393,659 restitution to PARIC and a $15,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Deborah Cellucci, 45, of Mullica Hill, New Jersey, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for sending a false levy release that hampered the Internal Revenue Service's efforts to collect taxes owed by Cellucci's day care business, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee commended the work of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) Office of the Inspector General (IG) upon release of its Semiannual Report to Congress. During Fiscal Year 2015, the GSA IG issued 85 audit reports, seven (7) audit...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: BIRMINGHAM -- A federal judge today sentenced a Madison woman to 18 months in prison for a scheme to obtain fraudulent tax refunds, including one for $558,857, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance, IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Today’s Finance Committee hearing on international tax comes just two weeks after the headlines announced yet another tax inversion. This time it’s Pfizer merging with Allergan and moving its headquarters overseas in pursuit of a lower tax bill.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: The public restrooms at the Fort Moultrie Visitor Center will undergo utility upgrades from December 7 through Dec. 31, 2015. During this time, temporary restrooms will be located in the visitor parking area, including ADA accessible facilities. Fort Moultrie and the visitor center will still be open to the public for normal visiting hours. For additional information, please call (843) 883-3123.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement on the release of the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: Over 250 Individual and Institutional Victims Had Their Identities Stolen and Sustained Actual Losses of Over $126,000.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade Subcommittee, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today continued its Disrupter Series with a review of mobile payments. In light of the holiday shopping season now firmly underway, the subcommittee discussed how this innovative technology works, the security it provides consumers, and how it is disrupting traditional payment options for small and large businesses across the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: The Defendant Possessed 453 Gift Cards Re-Encoded with Stolen Credit Card and Debit Card Numbers.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 1, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON -Today, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) lauded congressional efforts in producing a final Conference Report for the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, bipartisan legislation to fund America’s highway and transit programs for five full years without raising taxes or adding to the deficit.
