News from February 2015
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - At a hearing on the FY2016 budget of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said that the U.S. tax system is unfair to middle-class Americans because it is too complex and the IRS doesn’t have adequate resources to help taxpayers effectively. According to the independent IRS Taxpayer Advocate, this is “the most serious problem" facing taxpayers.
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, urged his Senate colleagues to consider S. 272, Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2015, a clean appropriations bill that would fund the Department of Homeland...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cumberland County, New Jersey, married couple today admitted planning to destroy a historic diner they owned in Bridgeton, New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Budget Increase Proposed For National Park Service Centennial Year.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Whenever I talk with Oregonians in meetings or town halls, the conversation nearly always comes down to the same core issue - the struggling middle class. Years after economists first said the recession officially ended, too many middle-class Americans feel like they’re standing on quicksand because...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Ajamu Sawandi Osborne, 40, of New York, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Conspired to sell cocaine and crack in the Troy and Plattsburgh areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Over $1 million collected at local retail outlets with only a fraction received by vets.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - In another case of fraud involving the solicitation of money in exchange for business grants, a Las Vegas man has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Welcome, Secretary Lew. This Administration first presented a budget to Congress six years ago. Back then, in the months of February and March of 2009 - just weeks after President Obama took office - the economy lost more than 1.5 million jobs, the most of any two-month period since World War II. Today,...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Ranking Members of the House Committees on Ways and Means, Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce decried today’s attempt by House Republicans to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) - the 56th such attempt since the law’s enactment - and the Republicans’ sustained attack...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Licensed pharmacist and former mayor of Bridgeport, West Virginia, Mario Blount, 52, was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for unlawfully distributing prescription painkillers, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - The dangers of worker exposure to hexavalent chromium, a known carcinogen that can cause serious long-term health issues, including lung cancer and kidney failure, should have come as no surprise to the Lane Plating Works Inc. owner. Air-monitoring tests told him that workers were being overexposed...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: (HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Jermaine Jenkins, 34, formerly of Newington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 72 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for his role in a cocaine trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Hector Morales, 36, of the Bronx, was sentenced today by the Honorable Gary L. Sharpe to 30 years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Richard S. Hartunian and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt. Additionally, the judge imposed a term of 20 years of Supervised Release upon release from incarceration. Morales has a prior drug felony conviction, and therefore, was subject to increased penalties.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - David Stephen Rokisky, 37, of Tampa, Florida, along with two additional individuals, was sentenced in federal court today on drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - RICKY A. ERWIN, from Warr Acres, Oklahoma, pled guilty yesterday to committing tax evasion, announced Sanford C. Coats, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: Camden, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas; David Resch, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI; David Downing, Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the DEA; David Butler, Prosecuting Attorney for the 13th Judicial District of Arkansas; and the Arkansas...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - The former operations manager and a control technician at Berkshire Power Plant were charged today with tampering with environmental monitors in violation of the Clean Air Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 3, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A previously deported Mexican national was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a 57-month prison term for illegally re-entering the United States.
