News from September 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted in favor of a resolution and report recommending the U.S. House of Representatives find Bryan Pagliano in contempt of Congress for refusal to comply with a subpoena.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - The ringleader of a multimillion-dollar cocaine trafficking ring has been sentenced to federal prison. Twenty co-conspirators were previously sentenced for their roles in the criminal enterprise; one remains a fugitive. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - U.S. Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced today that there is insufficient evidence to pursue federal criminal civil rights charges against South Boston Police Officers Tiffany Bratton, Travis Clay and Clinton Mann for the death of Linwood Raymond Lambert Jr. on May 4, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that two men were indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for multiple armed robberies including the armed robbery of Wells Fargo Bank on Aug. 18, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., blasted the European Union for funneling billions in illegal subsidies to Airbus, as a new World Trade Organization report confirmed today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Bangor, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Jeremy Eaton, 39, of Stonington, Maine, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to seven years in prison and three years of supervised release for arson of a lobster boat. He pled guilty to the charge on March 11, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement regarding today’s findings by a World Trade Organization (WTO) compliance panel that the European Union and four of its member States continue to provide illegal subsidies to Airbus.
By State Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot L. Engel (D-NY) released the following statement on efforts by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and the country’s National Electoral Council to block a constitutionally mandated presidential recall referendum from taking place this year...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced the federal Grand Jury for the District of Nebraska has returned 11 indictments charging 15 defendants. Indictments are charging documents that contain one or more individual counts that are merely accusations, and every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - With the cost of housing squeezing family budgets across the country, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released draft legislation that would create a new tax credit to spur the development of rental homes affordable to Americans with moderate incomes. The...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on five bills including H.R. 2387 (Rep. Don Young), the "Alaska Native Veterans Land Allotment Equity Act." The bill, which passed by voice vote, provides equitable treatment of Alaska Native Vietnam Veterans under the Native Allotment Act of 1906, allowing veterans to be eligible for land benefits from the federal government.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), the top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced its decision to withdraw recognition of the Accrediting Council for Independent...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement regarding today’s findings by the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body that India continues to engage in unfair trade practices that discriminate against American solar manufacturers and workers.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Dear Commissioner Koskinen: Last week the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued yet another report finding that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) does not have protections in place to ensure that taxpayers are treated fairly when being selected for audits. This is the sixth report in a series...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Nicholas Rovinski pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Sept. 21, a federal grand jury charged a Harrisburg man with failure to register as a sex offender.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: The Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, chaired by Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN), today held a hearing to receive public feedback on a discussion draft to modernize multiemployer pensions. Released by Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, ...
By Interior Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: Teaching Methods: Parks as Classrooms Workshop.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Jeffery Robinson, 40, of Springfield, Nebraska, was sentenced on Sept. 22, 2016, in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 6 years in prison by Senior United States District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for possession of child pornography. After serving his prison term, Robinson will be on supervised release for 5 years and must register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Dwayne Hilton, 25, of Washington, D.C., has been found guilty of first-degree murder while armed and other charges for the 2011 slaying of a man in Northeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips announced today.
