News from April 2017
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the Department of Homeland Security’s establishment of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement VOICE Office...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - After reading the fine print on President Trump’s new executive order mandating an ill-defined Interior Department “review" of certain national monuments, Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today questioned whether Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has enough time to hold a series...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - Enjoy a spring Basque dancing program and learn about butterflies at the California Trail Interpretive Center.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: When you suffer a fall, an on-the-field collision or some other traumatic blow, the first thing the doctor will do is take an X-ray, CT scan or MRI to determine if anything has been damaged internally. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are using the same principle, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: I rise today in strong support of H.R. 1695, the “Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act of 2017."
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Xavier Lee Gist, age 22, of Spartanburg, pled guilty in federal court in Greenville, to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 924(c) and...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK - Ai Shu Cheng, 52, of San Angelo, Texas, was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 36 months in federal prison last week, following his guilty plea in December 2016 to two counts of filing a false income tax return, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA) and Tax Policy Subcommittee Ranking Member Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) today released the following statements after President Donald J. Trump released his tax proposal...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Four men were indicted on federal firearms charges, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that HARRY STEWART, also known as “P," 34, of New London, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court in Kansas City, Kansas has permanently barred Everett Bias and Integrity Solutions Tax Consultants Inc. (ISTC) from preparing federal tax returns for others, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A restaurant owner pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to tax and insurance fraud at 11 Boston-area restaurants and to committing visa and immigration fraud in an effort to remain in the United States unlawfully.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: APR 26 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Dr. Joel A. Sabean, 69, of Falmouth, Maine, was sentenced in U.S. District Court by Judge George Z. Singal to two years in prison...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker announced the sentencing of BRADLEY THOMAS SMEGAL, 63, to 72 months in prison for stealing more than $5.1 million from several of his investment advisory clients. SMEGAL, who pleaded guilty on Aug. 11, 2016, to two counts of securities fraud, was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge David S. Doty in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. B A Goddard man was sentenced Wednesday to 41 months in federal prison for two commercial robberies in Wichita, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Five men imprisoned on child pornography charges were arrested today at the Federal Correctional Institution-Fort Dix and charged with new counts of distributing images and videos of child sexual abuse within the prison, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Canadian man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to traffic 100 kilograms of cocaine from Chicago to New Jersey and then on to Canada, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: The House of Representatives today approved by a vote of 378-48 the Register of Copyrights Selection and Accountability Act (H.R. 1695 ). This bipartisan bill - introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.) -- makes important changes to the selection process for the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, known as the Register of Copyrights.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) will hold a wild horse and burro adoption event in Las Vegas, New Mexico, April 28-29, 2017. The two-day event at the Santa Fe Trail Events Center (Zamora Indoor Arena) will feature dozens of outstanding animals. The event will take place from noon - 6:00pm on Friday, April 28 and 8:00am - 10:00am on Saturday, April 29. The BLM will offer all animals for the minimum adoption fee of $125 (set by law).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 26, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A local man has admitted to willfully attempting to evade or defeat his individual income taxes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez and Special Agent in Charge D. Richard Goss of IRS - Criminal Investigation (CI).
