News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - U.S. Attorney John M. Bales announced today that 16 individuals have been charged in a federal firearms and drug trafficking conspiracy in the Eastern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn issued the following statement in response to comments made this weekend by Hillary Clinton on NBC’s Meet the Press when she asserted that constitutional rights don’t apply to the “unborn person."
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: As the 2016 Major League Baseball (MLB) season begins, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today demanded that chewing tobacco finally be banned from Major League Baseball. In separate letters to MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred, Jr. and MLB Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark, Pallone said that MLB should ban the use of smokeless tobacco in all parts of the ballparks, including on the field and in the dugout.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Release Date:April 6, 2016. Contact:Kelly Carroll, Lead Park Ranger. Phone: 671-477-7278 x1007. T. Stell Newman Visitor Center Closed on Thursday, April 28, 2016. War in the Pacific National Historical Park's T. Stell Newman Visitor Center will be closed on Thursday, April 28, 2016, due to required employee...
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, R-Kan., Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, today released the following statement regarding an anti-agriculture billboard in Washington state funded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Robert Kinney, Jr., 41, of Blaine, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to 15 years in prison and 15 years of supervised release for transporting child pornography. The defendant was also ordered to pay $6,000 in restitution. He pled guilty on Sept. 2, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn issued the following statement in response to comments made this weekend by Hillary Clinton on NBC’s Meet the Press when she asserted that constitutional rights don’t apply to the “unborn person."
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: As the 2016 Major League Baseball (MLB) season begins, Energy and Commerce Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) today demanded that chewing tobacco finally be banned from Major League Baseball. In separate letters to MLB Commissioner Robert Manfred, Jr. and MLB Players Association Executive Director Tony Clark, Pallone said that MLB should ban the use of smokeless tobacco in all parts of the ballparks, including on the field and in the dugout.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif.O - On Friday, April 1, 2016, Alvaro Rios-Madrid, 57, of Guamuchil, Sinaloa, Mexico, was formally extradited to the United States by Mexico to face federal narcotics charges, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner and Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin announced.
By EPA Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Washington, DC - Select Investigative Panel Chairman Marsha Blackburn issued the following statement in response to comments made this weekend by Hillary Clinton on NBC’s Meet the Press when she asserted that constitutional rights don’t apply to the “unborn person."
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Treasury Department issued proposed regulations aimed at curbing earnings stripping, a common practice used by companies that redomicile, or invert, their headquarters overseas for tax purposes. The Department also issued additional anti-inversion guidance and released an updated framework for business tax reform. In response, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) issued the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The former controller of a Cambridge-based technology company was sentenced in U.S. District Court today for embezzling $1 million from the company.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against James H. Paxson & Sons Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A federal grand jury today returned a second superseding indictment charging Price Montgomery with witness tampering crimes relating to the killing of federal witness Tina Crawford and the attempt to kill another witness on Aug. 22, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WAYNE ALEXANDER, also known as “Uncle Easy," 50, of Stamford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of cocaine base (“crack cocaine").
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statement after the U.S. Treasury Department took steps to further limit corporate tax inversions and address the use of earnings stripping by U.S. corporations...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: Jhon Jairo Cruz Trejos, a/k/a “Mellizo," Attempted to Broker Cocaine-Financed Weapons Deals Involving Highly Enriched Uranium, Missiles, and Machine Guns.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI-Jennifer Bowen-Dodoo, 51, pleaded guilty on Friday, April 1, 2016, in District Court on St. Thomas to one count of transportation of a minor for sex, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Catherine McKinney, 62, of Hartland, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Rutland to 36 months of imprisonment following her guilty plea to a charge of mail fraud. U.S. District Judge Geoffrey Crawford ordered that...
