News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Vladimir Maglnik Caused More Than $3 Million in Tax Losses to IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Co-defendant Kevin Kenard Howard Pleaded Guilty to Related Offense Last Week.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: POCATELLO - Somber March, 30, of Fort Hall, Idaho, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court to assault on an officer, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. March was indicted by the federal grand jury in Pocatello on Nov. 25, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing to explore how corporate integration could make the tax code neutral in regards to financing with debt or with equity...
By DOL Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary King: Since enactment of the original Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in 1965 as part of President Johnson's civil rights agenda and war on poverty, Congress, through Title I-A, has focused the resources and attention of the federal government on improving educational opportunities...
By Interior Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: The NOAA-led West Coast Ocean Acidification (WCOA) cruise started its voyage along the California Current May 5. Its route follows the entirety of the West Coast from Baja California to British Columbia, taking water samples along 13 transects on the way. On each transect, samples of water will be collected...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Two men pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to evading federal income taxes and defrauding the Commonwealth of Massachusetts of millions of dollars in connection with the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 24-year-old Mexican National has entered a guilty plea to attempting to provide contraband to a federal inmate, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Karen Yudith Reyes-Oliva pleaded guilty to a criminal complaint at a hearing today in federal court in McAllen before U.S. Magistrate Judge Peter E. Ormsby.
By US DOT Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Shuster and Graves Opening Statements. Hearing on “Improving Safety and Reliability of the Washington Metro". May 24, 2016. (Remarks as Prepared). Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA). Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Millions of people come to Washington, DC every year, and they need to be able to...
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette (D-CO) delivered the following statement today at a hearing on “Medicare and Medicaid Program Integrity: Combatting Improper Payments and Ineligible Providers."
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 75-year-old Houston man has been charged in a 10-count indictment alleging wire fraud and mail fraud in an investment fraud scheme involving more than 50 victims and $5 million, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) today announced the creation of a bipartisan working group to examine the Internet of Things (IoT). The goals of the working group are to educate members on IoT, identify issues affecting deployment...
By EPA Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today examined a number of bills aimed at bringing needed, 21st century reforms to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The bills unveiled by the subcommittee and discussed today focus on reforming the agency to make it more transparent to consumers, businesses, and better able to address emerging issues.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Diego Rodriguez, Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and Charles Gardner, the Commissioner of the Yonkers Police Department, announced the unsealing of...
By DOE Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade, chaired by Rep. Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX), today examined a number of bills aimed at bringing needed, 21st century reforms to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The bills unveiled by the subcommittee and discussed today focus on reforming the agency to make it more transparent to consumers, businesses, and better able to address emerging issues.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House of Representatives today passed a landmark bicameral, bipartisan overhaul of our chemical safety standards. The Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act passed the House by a vote of 403 to 12 and is further evidence of the committee’s ongoing bipartisan...
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The owner and operator of dozens of pizza franchise restaurants in Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana pleaded guilty today in federal court to filing a false federal income tax return that did not include money he skimmed from his Little Caesars restaurants, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Veronica Hyman-Pillot.
By DOJ Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Hillsboro man was indicted Tuesday on charges of carrying out a $7.9 million oil and gas fraud scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today released the following statement after House Republicans unveiled a bill that would cut the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) budget by $236 million. Republicans have already cut the IRS’s budget by close to $1 billion from 2010-2015.
By EPA Newswire | May 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Energy and Commerce Committee members Rep. Bob Latta (R-OH) and Rep. Peter Welch (D-VT) today announced the creation of a bipartisan working group to examine the Internet of Things (IoT). The goals of the working group are to educate members on IoT, identify issues affecting deployment...
