News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JON CRUZ, a former teacher and debate coach at the Bronx High School for Science, was sentenced today to seven years in prison for receiving images containing child pornography from minor teenage boys.
By State Newswire | Jul 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered the following remarks at a hearing on nominations for U.S. ambassadorships. The nominees included Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) to be ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven returned a three-count indictment today charging ROBERT CAPELLI, 31, of Milford; SCOTT BODNAR, also known as “Pep," 38, of Ansonia, and DONALD BURNS, 59, of Milford, with trafficking marijuana by airplane into Connecticut.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Experience the compelling music that revealed and expressed the feelings Americans held during the Civil War at Gettysburg National Military Park’s 22nd annual Gettysburg Music Muster on August 11 and 12.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Full Committee held a legislative hearing on five bills, most of which have advanced with bipartisan support, to reform and improve the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The bills work to empower states, ensure data transparency, improve listing and delisting processes, and discourage costly litigation that diverts critical resources away from species recovery.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: The price of the America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Senior Pass will increase from $10 to $80 on Aug. 28, 2017.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Today, Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (NC-05), along with Ranking Member Bobby Scott (VA-03) hosted a bipartisan panel discussion with business leaders, advocates, and youth on the return on investment in hiring opportunity youth, barriers to hiring opportunity youth, and employer-led solutions to youth unemployment.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C., July 19, 2017) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today named three individuals to take on leadership roles within the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services (FNCS). Brandon Lipps will serve as the Administrator of the Food and Nutrition ...
By USDA Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C., July 19, 2017) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today applauded President Donald J. Trump’s declaration of intent to nominate Ted McKinney for Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs and Dr. Sam Clovis for Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced a new Department of Justice policy (attached) regarding the federal adoption of assets seized by state or local law enforcement under state law.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Montgomery, Alabama returned an indictment, which was unsealed today, charging a Phenix City, Alabama resident with conspiring to file fraudulent refund claims, mail fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and Acting U.S. Attorney A. Clark Morris for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: 17 members and associates of La Mara Salvatrucha, also known as the MS-13, have been charged with racketeering, 12 murders, attempted murders, assaults, obstruction of justice, arson, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, and related firearms and conspiracy charges relating to the gang’s activities on ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: The former general manager of a Miami-based telecommunications company pleaded guilty today for his role in a scheme to pay $3 million in bribes to various Haitian officials to secure a lucrative contract with Telecommunications D’Haiti (Haiti Teleco), the state-owned and state-controlled telecommunications company in Haiti.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: An Indian national and a Texas man each pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges this week for their respective roles in liquidating and laundering victim payments generated through a massive telephone impersonation fraud and money laundering scheme perpetrated by India-based call centers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: A medical doctor and entrepreneur was sentenced to 119 months and 29 days in prison today for defrauding his former company’s shareholders and for failing to account for and failing to pay employment taxes, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: A citizen and resident of Switzerland pleaded guilty today to conspiring to defraud the United States in connection with her work as the head of a team of bankers for Credit Suisse AG, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente for the Eastern District of Virginia.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Responding to concerns about the time and cost associated with completing real estate transactions, the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to raise the threshold for commercial real estate transactions requiring an appraisal to $400,000.
By Fed Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Wednesday announced its approval of the applications under section 9 of the Federal Reserve Act by Regions Bank, Birmingham, Alabama, to establish branches in Georgia, Indiana, Missouri, Tennessee, and Texas.
By Commerce News Now | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Upon completion of the first meeting of the U.S.-China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue, Co-Chairs Secretary Wilbur Ross and Secretary Steven Mnuchin released the following statement: “We thank Vice Premier Wang and the Chinese delegation for making the journey to Washington for this first session of ...
By State News Post | Jul 19, 2017
The US State Department published a two page notice on July 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
