News from April 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement regarding Democratic Staff Director and Chief Counsel Janice Mays’ decision to retire soon from the Committee staff.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: St. George, Utah - On Friday, April 29, 2016, from 5 to 8:30 p.m., the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) St. George Field Office and BLM Arizona Strip District, in partnership with Southwest Utah National Conservation Lands Friends (SUNCLF) will host free a photography workshop featuring professional landscape photographer Bob Wick at the Interagency Center at 345 East Riverside Drive.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: James L. Porter, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on April 19, 2016, Shelia B. Hatfield, 52, formerly an inmate at the Federal Prison Camp located in Greenville, Illinois (FPC-Greenville), was sentenced for Escape. Hatfield received 15 additional months in federal prison, followed by 3 years supervised release. Hatfield has been held without bond since her arraignment on the Indictment on May 12, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: “What this bill does is to say that the IRS cannot hire a single person until the Secretary of the Treasury issues a written certification that no single employee in the entire agency has a serious tax debt.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Committee on Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement upon Senate passage of S.2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - An Orange County woman who formerly performed payroll tax services for Axium International, Inc. has pleaded guilty to a federal tax evasion charge.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Just six months after citing a global equipment provider to the biopharma industry for exposing workers to hazardous levels of hexavalent chromium and potentially deafening noise as they welded and grinded stainless steel and other alloy steels, federal investigators found the company has failed to take steps to protect its workers at its Springfield facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: The leader of the Bounty Hunter Bloods violent street gang was sentenced to 30 years in prison today, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Frances King Diaz has entered a plea of guilty for falsifying personal and client tax returns, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Rick Goss of Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: As you know, on July 13, 2010, our Office, together with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, filed criminal charges against 6 former NOPD officers in connection with the September 4, 2005 shooting of several New Orleans citizens on the Danziger Bridge. The case against one, Sgt. Gerald...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Rep. Todd Rokita (R-IN), chairman of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, today introduced the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016 (H.R. 5003). The bill will reauthorize and reform federal child nutrition programs to ensure states and schools have the flexibility they need to provide children access to healthy meals without additional or prohibitive costs.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. President: We write to commend the unprecedented efforts undertaken by your Administration to support formerly-incarcerated individuals’ successful reentry into society. We also write to ask for your continued leadership on this issue, especially as it relates to “banning the box," or removing...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Patrick A. Miles, Jr., announced today that four individuals were arrested on federal health care fraud and mail fraud charges related to their roles in an automobile insurance fraud conspiracy: Yoisler Herrera-Enriquez, age 30, and Dolis Rojas-Lopez, age 30, both of Wyoming, Michigan; Gustavo Ramiro Acuna-Rosa, Age 28, of Versailles, Kentucky; and, Antonio Ramon Martinez-Lopez, Age 34, of Port Richey, Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Shihong Chen, 51, of Elk Grove, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller to one year and one day in prison for growing marijuana inside homes in Elk Grove and Sacramento, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision that Iran must pay nearly $2 billion to relatives of those killed in the 1983 bombing of an American barracks in Beirut...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today issued the following statement after the Committee favorably reported out two bipartisan tax bills that aim to prevent identity theft and tax refund fraud, and better protect American taxpayers...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: MIDDLETOWN, NEW JERSEY-On Friday, April 22, representatives of Gateway National Recreation Area, New Jersey Youth Corps of Phillipsburg (NJYC), and The Corps Network will cut the ribbon on a new porch for Building 26, the headquarters for Gateway's Sandy Hook Unit in Middletown. The ceremony will begin at 11 A.M.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: G.F. Peterman, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Brandon Perry, age 24, from Jeffersonville, Georgia entered a guilty plea on April 20, 2016, to Interference with Commerce by Robbery and Possession of a Firearm During and in Relation to a Crime of Violence before the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge, in Macon, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted based on DEA Seizure of More Than Four Pounds of Methamphetamine.
