News from March 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Texarkana, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that William Gauld, age 33 of Texarkana, Arkansas, was sentenced today to 180 months in prison without the possibility of parole, followed by ten years of supervised release for Receipt of Images...
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and former chair of the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, today made the following statement on the election of former Uruguayan Minister of Foreign Affairs Luis Almagro as the next Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS)...
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 8:30 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing with top Obama Administration officials to examine the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran as an end of March deadline looms. The hearing, entitled “Negotiations with Iran: Blocking or Paving Tehran’s Path to Nuclear Weapons? " will take place tomorrow, Thursday, March 19 at 8:30 a.m.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: The Joshua Tree National Park vegetation crew is seeking volunteers for two one-day sessions to help with the control of the invasive Sahara mustard plant. This non-native weed is invading Joshua Tree National Park and surrounding communities. It has the potential to do lasting harm to the native desert ecosystem. This rapidly spreading annual mustard is most successfully controlled by manually pulling plants before they are able to spread seeds across the desert landscape.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: (PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that David Jones -, 30, of Portland, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to 110 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for distributing marijuana and money laundering.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Mr. Chairman, thank you for calling the hearing on this topic. We are here today to discuss the estate tax, which for all the recent histrionics around the topic, has been, in one form or another, a part of the tax code since the days of our founding fathers. Whether used by John Adams to defend our...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 63-year-old Red Oak, Texas man has been sentenced for his role in a mortgage fraud scheme in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: On March 17, 2015, Shannon L. Connett, 37, of Marion, IL, was sentenced for a methamphetamine violation, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Washington, DC - Congressman David E. Price (NC-04), Ranking Member of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Subcommittee, made the following opening statement at this morning’s hearing with Administrator Michael Huerta of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: On March 17, 2015, George A. Mayo, 34, of West Frankfort, IL, pled guilty to a one-count indictment charging conspiracy to distribute heroin, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Stephen R. Wigginton, announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement in response to the Congressional Budget Office’s report on President Obama’s fiscal year 2016 budget proposal.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) issued the following statement of support for the House Republican budget proposal, A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that six individuals have been sentenced this week to a combined total of over 50 years in prison for drug-trafficking offenses stemming from an investigation into a drug-trafficking organization...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned four indictments charging Eduardo Hernandez Quinones, 46, Yasser Carrillo Chartrand, 23, Claudia Diaz Diaz, 21, Yaily Santurio Millian, 31, Jose Valdivia Quinones, 40 and Misael Toledo Rios, 39, all citizens of Cuba legally present in the United States, with fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Conner Eldridge, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Theron Vance, age 22 of Rogers, was found guilty on one count of Conspiracy to Commit Kidnapping and one count of Kidnapping, Aiding, and Abetting after a two day jury trial. The Honorable Timothy L. Brooks presided over the trial in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Four individuals were sentenced today on drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By State Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC-Representative Eliot L. Engel, the leading Democrat on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement regarding the terrorist attack in Tunis...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - With the President’s signature domestic policy, Obamacare, about to turn five, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today released a fact sheet outlining how the law’s subsidies have caused more confusion, frustration, and delays for American taxpayers across the country.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Ways and Means Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) released the following statement in response to the February jobs report...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 18, 2015
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Nathan Whitney Drage, age 56, a Salt Lake City attorney, was convicted of one count of conspiracy to impair and impede the IRS and three counts of willful failure to file a tax return, following a three-week trial in federal court in Salt Lake City. A jury returned the verdict late Tuesday night.
