News from April 2017
By State News Post | Apr 4, 2017
The US State Department published a two page notice on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) today met with Russian democracy activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, who recently survived a second suspected poisoning by the Putin regime...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: RVSP Here. On Thursday, April 6, 2017 at 10: 0AM, Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will hold a forum entitled, “Civil Rights Under the Trump Administration-The First 100 Days." . The 2016 presidential campaign was the most polarizing and divisive in memory, particularly from a civil rights ...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: “People like Elizabeth from Conroe, Texas - another constituent of mine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: A Broward County School District employee has pled guilty to obstructing a drug investigation.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Ways and Means Announces Markup. March 24, 2017 - Markup - Press Releases. What: Full Committee on Ways and Means Markup. Where: 1100 Longworth House Office Building. When: Tuesday, March 28, at 4:00 PM ET. The Committee will consider the following: * H.Res.186, introduced by Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Project Safe Childhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Columbia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Two Palm Beach County, Florida, residents pleaded guilty in federal court in West Palm Beach to conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. ISIL is also known by the acronym ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham). Both defendants are U.S. citizens.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Ramon Daniel Quezada was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to possess heroin and possession with intent to distribute heroin, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and DEA Special Agent-in-Charge John J. Martin. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Beth Labson Freeman, U.S. District Judge, following the entry of Quezada’s guilty plea to the charges on Nov. 15, 2016.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans discussed two bills that would expand hydropower infrastructure and clean energy for communities in Alaska and across the West.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, held a hearing Tuesday seeking further information from former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials David Aguilar and Ronald Colburn on the effectiveness of border barriers and need for additional resources at the southwest border. Excerpts from the hearing can be found here and below...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JANZAYB KHAN, 28, of Waterbury, was arrested today on a criminal complaint charging him with bank fraud, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, and making a false oath and false statement under penalty of perjury in a bankruptcy case. The charges stem from an alleged credit card “bust-out" scheme that defrauded over a dozen financial institutions.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today the unsealing of an indictment that charges eight individuals with various crimes related to the distribution of methamphetamine. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury sitting in Madison on March 29.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
Release: BALTIMORE - A Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, man was arrested at Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) early this morning, April 4, after Transportation Security Administration officers caught him trying to carry a loaded handgun past a security checkpoint.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Tuesday, April 4, 2017, United States District Court Judge Robert E. Jones sentenced Anthony C. Neal to one year and one day in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release. Neal pleaded guilty in July 2016 to engaging in a seven-year health care fraud scheme and conspiring...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Free, family-friendly, interactive programs focusing on national parks will be available at the Old Courthouse, part of Jefferson National expansion Memorial.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued a statement after the Health and Human Services Department (HHS) failed to reply to his letter requesting assurances that the agency has procedures in place to ensure that Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Seema Verma is in compliance with her ethics agreements...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico, announced today that United States District Judge Jay A. García-Gregory sentenced 21-year-old Carlos Rafael Ocasio-Febres, to serve a term of imprisonment of five years followed by 15 years of supervised...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 4, 2017
News Release: APRIL 4, 2017 - Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released February 2017. The monthly trade gap narrowed the most with China, a decline of $8.3 billion (26.6 percent) followed by Canada, with a decline of $1.3 billion (38.1 percent). The monthly trade gap widened with Mexico by $1.8 billion (46.0 percent) followed by Ireland with a $0.4 billion increase (13.3 percent).
