News from May 2016
By State Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - As Secretary of State John Kerry met with officials from other world powers in Vienna to restart the peace process in Syria, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged the Obama administration with leaving a vacuum in Syria that Russia ...
By State Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement today after the House voted to include his United States Naval Station Guantanamo Bay Preservation Act in the National Defense Authorization Act...
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today introduced the Protecting the U.S. Corporate Tax Base Act of 2016, a bill that would limit two tax loopholes commonly used by foreign-controlled U.S. multinational groups, like those formed through tax inversions and other foreign acquisitions. This bill is the third in a series aimed at curbing corporate tax loopholes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for the armed robbery of Pancho’s Mexican Food.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On May 16, 2016, Clarence Griffin, 44, of Los Angeles, Robert Brown, 29, of St. Croix, and Jamila Felix, 29, of St. Thomas, pleaded guilty in federal c ourt on St. Thomas, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Griffin and Brown pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess marijuana with the intent to distribute, and Felix pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder monetary instruments. Sentencing is scheduled for Sept. 15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - William Ray Wagner, age 33, a resident of Harford County, pleaded guilty today to use of interstate facilities to coerce a minor to engage in sex.
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: MARINA, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management is taking public comments until June 13 on a draft plan that covers dog use on the Fort Ord National Monument.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Brandon McNeal, 24, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor, was sentenced to 108 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, and Special Agent in Charge Diane Upchurch, of the Little Rock Field Office for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), announced today that Nicholas Tensley, age 29, of Conway, Arkansas, was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment for production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: The final three defendants were each sentenced to 33 years in prison today for their involvement in the violent armed robbery of Tapper’s Diamonds and Fine Jewelry in West Bloomfield and an attempted armed robbery of Medawar Jewelers in Grand Rapids in April 2014, United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with sex trafficking a 16-year-old girl.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Chairman Frelinghuysen, I would like to begin by conveying my deep appreciation for your steady leadership of the Defense Subcommittee. Your commitment to this subcommittee’s tradition of cooperative bipartisanship is unwavering and it is a pleasure working with you.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Robert Meader, age 31, of Liverpool, New York, pleaded guilty to a Criminal Information charging him with robbing two banks.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Cecil McConnell III and Cecil McConnell Jr. Sentenced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Guy G. Gebhardt, Acting United States Trustee for Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands (Region 21)...
By DOE Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Energy Department announced five additional military bases will join Solar Ready Vets, a solar jobs training program that prepares service members for careers in the solar industry when they leave active duty. The Department is also awarding $10 million to 10 new projects through...
By DOJ Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr., announced today that Renwick Samuel, 51, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, was sentenced to time served (41 months) in prison.
By Homeland Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, took to the Senate floor to urge his colleagues to support an amendment that would fully fund President Obama’s request for $1.9 billion to combat the growing threat...
By Interior Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: The sky is the limit at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). Join park rangers and astronomers from the Grand Traverse Astronomical Society (GTAS) on Saturday, May 21, 9:00-11:00 p.m., at the Dune Climb. Enjoy the dunes under a full moon as well as take the opportunity to view Jupiter and Mars. The Twilight Talk will be “100 Years of Mars Exploration." Please park in the row furthest from the dunes with your headlights facing M-109.
By Commerce Newswire | May 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to examine corporate integration, and specifically, how allowing corporations to deduct dividends could create a more efficient and fairer system of taxation of corporate profits...
