News from February 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Hatch. As the committee that’s required to pay for the most important health programs in the nation, the Finance Committee needs to do its part to address the opioid crisis. In the coming years, Medicare and Medicaid are expected to account for over a third of substance abuse-related spending. That amounts to billions and billions every year. Any solution that’s going to stem this tide needs to include the Finance Committee and our bedrock health programs.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management Wyoming Resource Advisory Council will meet March 9-10, in Rock Springs, Wyoming.The meeting is open to the public and will take place at the Rock Springs Field Office, 280 Highway 191 North, Rock Springs, beginning at 8 a.m., Wednesday, March 9, and concluding by 5 p.m....
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Portage, Pa. pleaded guilty in federal court in Johnstown on a charge of conspiring to commit money laundering, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C.-Today, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) issued the following statement after President Obama announced the Department of Defense will submit a plan to Congress to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Grand Canyon, Ariz. -On Sunday evening, Feb. 21, the Grand Canyon Regional Communications Center received a call from a local resident reporting a car below the rim near Lipan Point on Desert View Drive.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will deliver the keynote address on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, at the annual Bloomberg BNA tax policy event, The Politics of Tax: Making Sense of Uncertainty Tax Outlook 2016. The speech will take place at 10:00 a.m. at Bloomberg Government.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: A physician from Canfield was charged with failing to pay over Social Security, Medicare and employment taxes collected from his employees, said Carole S. Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Guy Ficco, Acting Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Tuesday, March 1, to examine the multiemployer pension plan system and its effect on unions, employers, workers, retirees and taxpayers. The hearing, titled “The Multiemployer Pension Plan System: Recent Reforms and Current Challenges," will take place at 10:00 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) and Budget Committee Ranking Member Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) today introduced legislation aimed at reducing the number of corporate tax inversions by limiting the use of “earnings stripping" - a common strategy used by foreign-controlled inverted corporations to lower their U.S. taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A two-count indictment unsealed Tuesday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City charges 11 leaders and members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS Church) with conspiracy to commit Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The defendants include leaders of the church.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: On Feb. 23, 2016, Michael F. Halliday, 34, of Elkville, was sentenced on a methamphetamine offense, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released a new analysis by the Congressional Research Service of the administration’s revised proposed tax on oil, demonstrating that the slight increase in the rate actually costs an additional $8 billion over the next decade - for a total of $319 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former office manager for an independent sporting goods distributor was found guilty this afternoon of three counts of wire fraud for using company checks and credit cards to embezzle more than $300,000 from her Los Alamitos-based employer.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger today announced the guilty pleas of the remaining two defendants from an August 2015 indictment charging seven members of the 10z and 20z street gangs with crimes related to a multi-year gang war with their rivals, which included a shooting attack in August 2014 ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WORCESTER, Mass. - An Easthampton man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Worcester, MA in connection with distributing cocaine and marijuana. David Dulchinos, 50, pleaded guilty to one count each of distribution of cocaine and distribution of marijuana. U.S. District Court Judge Timothy S. Hillman scheduled sentencing for May 24, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Senior District Court Judge Raymond L. Finch sentenced today Lamont Sweeney, 41, and Shawn Webster, 42, each to three years of probation, a fine of $500 and a $100 special monetary assessment, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that William Duffy, 58, of Sebago, Maine pled guilty today in U.S. District Court to possessing child pornography.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today highlighted a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) which detailed a case study into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) management of the rollout of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: Yesterday, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), House Education and Workforce Committee Ranking Member Bobby Scott (D-VA) and House Judiciary Subcommittee ...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 23, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH -A Pittsburgh resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to five years (60 months) imprisonment, to be followed by four years of supervised release, on his conviction of violations of federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
