News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Yesterday, Seivert Daydrill Running Crane, 30, of Browning, was convicted of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. Running Crane was convicted by a Great Falls jury following a two-day trial. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris presided over the trial. Sentencing has been set for Aug. 18, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoneham businessman pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to tax evasion in connection with under-reporting more than $800,000 in gross receipts.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today issued the following statement after the House passed the Recovering Missing Children Act. The legislation, championed by Rep. Erik Paulsen (R-MN), allows the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to share taxpayer information with state and local law enforcement agencies in order to help find missing or exploited children, while maintaining safeguards for sensitive taxpayer information.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announces that a Sioux Falls, South Dakota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute Methamphetamine was sentenced on May 6, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schreier.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Christian Quintana, 20, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., was sentenced this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to 18 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his federal assault conviction.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) praised the Senate for passing the American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act of 2016. The bipartisan, bicameral legislation, which overwhelmingly passed the House last month, will reform the Miscellaneous Tariff Bill process and help American manufacturers compete and succeed in the global market.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Jason D. Smith, 32, of Charlestown, R.I., was sentenced today to 72 months in federal prison on drug and firearms charges. Smith was arrested in September 2015 by members of the Rhode Island State Police High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Task Force after court authorized...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that in federal court today SHAWN SCHENCK, of Clarkton, North Carolina, was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard, to 276 months after having pled guilty to Continuing Criminal Enterprise, in violation of Title 21, United States Code Section 848. Schenck was subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of twenty (20) years for his crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The former chief executive officer of Absolute Capital Holdings Ltd., which had its primary office in Palma on the Spanish island of Majorca, has entered into an agreement with federal prosecutors in which he will forfeit $8 million that federal prosecutors contend was derived from a fraud...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Michael Bobbitt, 28, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of escape from a halfway house, was sentenced to 12 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOL Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today issued a final rule to modernize injury data collection to better inform workers, employers, the public and OSHA about workplace hazards. With this new rule, OSHA is applying the insights of behavioral economics to improve workplace safety and prevent injuries and illnesses.
By Interior Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore) is hosting an orientation meeting for anyone interested in volunteering to serve as a “Bark Ranger." Bark Ranger volunteers and their canine companions will serve as ambassadors on National Lakeshore beaches to provide visitors information about the park, highlight pet policies, and pet safety. Bark Rangers will also help to protect the National Lakeshore’s nesting shorebirds.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Across the world, trade cheats are looking for any way they can to break our trade laws and rip off American jobs. Customs and Border Protection is often our number-one defense against them. It is tasked with spotting the illegally dumped steel and solar technology, the counterfeit chainsaws and computer chips, before jobs are lost or economic damage is done.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) today announced that the Subcommittee will hold a Member Day hearing entitled “Tax-Related Proposals to Improve Health Care." The hearing will take place on Tuesday, May 17, at 10:00 AM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building. This hearing will be an opportunity for members of both parties to present their proposals for improving our health care system through the tax code.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - After requesting information and documents for over a year regarding the administration’s unlawful payments to insurance companies, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) today issued subpoenas to...
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Altoona, Pa. was indicted on May 11, 2016, by a federal grand jury in Johnstown on a charge of possession of child pornography, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: FBI, IRS, and Partners Identify Sinaloa-Linked Drug Trafficking Organization and Seize $2.3 Million in Orange County in Ongoing Wiretap Investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced a markup on a package of bills aimed at improving the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and reducing poverty in America.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: Contact Person: Bill Watkins (864) 282-2100.
By DOJ Newswire | May 11, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A federal indictment was unsealed today in the District of Puerto Rico charging fifty (50) members of La Asociación ÑETA with racketeering, drug trafficking, and murder, announced Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. The defendants include...
