News from July 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement in response to the Republicans’ tax update...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Heavily Tattooed Man Uses Knife to Rob Albuquerque Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Gabriel Reyes, aka “Payaso," 33, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn to 170 months in federal prison for the distribution of heroin, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced a Texas man to six years and three months in prison for a scheme to steal more than $650,000 from a retirement account after the account owner and his designated beneficiary both died, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge David W. Archey.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: TRINIDAD, Calif. - In cooperation with the Humboldt Amateur Radio Club (HARC), the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Arcata Field Office will host a free open house and ham radio demonstration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, August 5, at the Trinidad Head Lighthouse on Trinidad Head. Lighthouse tours will be offered from 10 a.m. to noon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Wide-Ranging Operation Filed Over 12,000 Fraudulent Tax Returns Seeking More Than $42 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Joseph Ray Mendiola Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-UT), and House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following joint statement on tax reform...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault by Strangulation and Suffocation and Assaulting, Resisting, Opposing, and Impeding a Federal Officer was sentenced on July 26, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Amado Colon, age 21, of Albany, New York, pled guilty today to distributing, receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A former Army soldier was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in federal prison for child abuse, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, July 27 - The Senate parliamentarian determined Thursday that portions of Section 207, “Waivers for State Innovation," of the Republican health bill are not permissible under Senate rules. Notably, the part that would have amended Section 1332 of the Affordable Care Act to allow states to waive essential health benefits and other pre-existing condition requirements so long as their proposal does not increase the federal deficit violates the Byrd Rule.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Terrance Quartez Jarrett, aka Boopie, age 34, of Little Rock, was sentenced last week to 180 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, on counts of Possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for robbing a Valley National bank in Belleville, New Jersey, in April 2016, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to distributing heroin.
By US DOT Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Speaking before a spirited general aviation audience at the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, FAA Administrator Michael Huerta outlined a future thriving general aviation industry in America and emphasized the importance of government and industry partnerships to bolster general aviation safety and efficiency.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Phyllistone Termine, 19, of Miami, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Joan Lenard of the Southern District of Florida, to 54 months in prison, to be followed by 3 years of supervised release, for his role in a scheme that used stolen identities to commit more than one million dollars of unemployment fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - An Indiana man today admitted transporting weapons to New Jersey in connection with illegal firearms trafficking and sales activity he conducted on an underground, internet based marketplace known as Alphabay, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Today, at a press conference with small business owners, members introduced the Save Local Business Act (H.R. 3441). The legislation, sponsored by Subcommittee Chairman Bradley Byrne (R-AL), rolls back the extreme joint employer scheme to protect American jobs and entrepreneurship. The bill has received bipartisan support with 29 co-sponsors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that on July 26, 2017, Taheem Mungo, 35, of Brooklyn, New York, pleaded guilty to a federal charge of possessing crack cocaine and heroin with the intent to distribute.
