News from April 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Wagner Announces His Resignation.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Tax Policy Subcommittee Chairman Charles Boustany (R-LA) announced the witnesses for tomorrow’s hearing regarding legislative proposals for reforming our current income tax system. At the hearing...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MARTIN VELLOZZI, age 58, of Rancho Palos Verdes, California, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to mail fraud for his role in creating and selling non-authentic Mercedes Benz diagnostic equipment.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks in support of the Frank R. Wolf International Religious Freedom Act of 2015 (H.R. 1150 ), the Strategy to Oppose Predatory Organ Trafficking Act (H.R. 3694 ), the...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., called for substantial taxpayer protections from identity theft and tax refund fraud at a Finance Committee markup of an original bill to curb identity theft and tax refund fraud as well as a second bipartisan bill aimed to protect...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: “Republicans have cut the IRS budget by close to $1 billion over the past five years. And this bill is just another budget cut - further reducing the IRS’s budget by as much as $500 million.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed H.R. 3694, Strategy to Oppose Predatory Organ Trafficking Act, which was introduced by Rep. Dave Trott (R-MI) to combat ISIS trafficking in human organs.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A stunning star trail photograph comprised from 200 images was previewed today to celebrate Washington's Mount Rainier as the 13th of 16 National Parks Forever Stamp series to be revealed over a three-week period to celebrate the National Park Service's 100th anniversary.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Stephen E. Crawford, 68, of Beaufort, North Carolina, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to one year of probation for stealing and embezzling funds from the Passamaquoddy Tribe at Pleasant Point. The defendant paid $26,373.72 in restitution in advance of the sentencing.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today led the Senate’s approval of broad, bipartisan energy legislation that contains a wide range of provisions vital to Alaska’s future. The bill, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2016, was authored by Murkowski and passed the Senate by a bipartisan vote of 85-12. It is the first major energy bill to pass the Senate in almost a decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced today that five former officers of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) pled guilty and were sentenced in connection with the federal civil rights prosecution of a police-involved shooting that occurred on the Danziger Bridge in the days after Hurricane Katrina.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Ordered to pay $1,486,164.45 in restitution for theft of cigarettes from Leitchfield, Kentucky warehouse.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Nicholas Torrieri, 43, of Redding, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to 14 years in prison for receiving child pornography, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Upon release, he will be required to register as a sex offender and will be supervised by the court for the rest of his life.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Rico Vendetti, 45, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of racketeering following a home invasion robbery that led to the death of an elderly Medina, NY man, was sentenced to 240 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. In addition, Donald Griffin, 28, also of Rochester, who was convicted of committing murder in aid of racketeering, was sentenced to 240 months in prison as well.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that NOE FRANCISCO MARADIAGA-MIRANDA, a/k/a “ISAAC LISBOA MORALES," a/k/a “NOE FRANCISCO MARADIAGA," a/k/a “NOE FRANCISCO," a/k/a “ISAAC LISBOA," age 34, a Honduran citizen, was sentenced today for falsely representing a social security number in order to obtain employment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Fort Myers, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that U.S. District Judge Sheri Polster Chappell has sentenced Tavares E. Felton (41, Fort Myers) to 15 years and 8 months in federal prison for the illegal possession a firearm by a convicted felon. Felton, a three-time convicted...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Company agrees to pay $400,000 fine and repair and/or upgrade elevators and escalators to meet safety standards.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Fulton, Mo., man and a Boonville, Mo., woman have been charged in federal court with illegally possessing a firearm following a police chase in the Columbia, Mo., area yesterday in which they fired upon pursuing officers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ANISHA LYNN GALLIN, age 27, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to one count of theft of mail.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following unanimous Senate passage of the Global Food Security Act, U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), both members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today highlighted progress in their bipartisan effort to fix inefficiencies in the delivery of U.S. global ...
