News from June 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: MINERAL, CA - Signs of winter linger at Lassen Volcanic National Park, yet there are plenty of summer activities and programs available for visitors this coming Fourth of July weekend. “The winter’s heavy snowfall has created challenges for the park highway and facilities opening. We had hoped that visitors would have been able to drive through the park for this holiday weekend, but the deep snow has delayed its opening," stated Park Superintendent Jim Richardson.
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
Release: While the Russian Federation made substantial advances in 2016 to decrease the regulatory burden on businesses at the regional level, fundamental structural problems in governance of the economy continue to stifle foreign direct investment throughout the country. In particular, Russia’s judicial system ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: ROME Ga. - Bryson-Taylor Wayne Banks, 31, of Cartersville, Georgia, has been arraigned on multiple federal charges, including unlawfully accessing a law enforcement database and disclosure of confidential information. Banks was a Cartersville Police Officer who was assigned to a DEA task force and allegedly used his access to law enforcement databases to alert an informant and drug traffickers to an active federal investigation.
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) discussed the importance of Vietnam human rights during the seventh Vietnam Advocacy Day. The event - which started as the Vietnamese American Meetup, an initiative led by Royce in 2013 - has become an annual event that draws hundreds of Vietnamese American advocates from across the country to the nation’s capital. Text of Chairman Royce’s remarks, as prepared for delivery, follows...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy announced today that William Wentling, 68, of Rothville, PA, pleaded guilty to violation of the Bald and Gold Eagle Protection Act before U.S. District Judge Jonathan W. Feldman. The defendant was then sentenced to two years’ probation and fined $3,500.
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
Release: As the largest market in Europe, Germany is a major destination for foreign direct investment; consequently, a vast FDI stock has accumulated over time. The United States is the leading source of non-EU inward investment to Germany. Germany is consistently ranked as one of the most attractive destinations ...
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
Release: Andorra is an independent principality with a population of over 85,000 and area of 181 square miles situated between France and Spain in the Pyrenees mountains. Although not a member of the European Union, Andorra is part of the EU Customs Union and, due to a monetary agreement with the EU, uses the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Guatemalan national was charged today in federal court in Boston with illegally reentering the United States after being deported.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 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 Radames Hendrix, 42, Madison, Wis., with sex trafficking of a minor and sex trafficking using force, threats, and coercion. This sealed indictment was returned by a federal grand jury on June 22.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: In Midland today, FBI agents arrested 55-year-old Lorenzo Padilla Hernandez, Presidio County Precinct 3 Commissioner, and 65-year-old Carlos Eduardo Nieto, Special Projects Coordinator for the City of Presidio and Presidio Independent School District trustee, on federal bribery, fraud, and deprivation of honest services charges announced United States Attorney Richard Durbin, Jr., and FBI Special Agent in Charge Emmerson Buie, Jr., El Paso Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Thank you, Chairman Johnson and Chairman Buchanan for holding this hearing. I’d like to say welcome back to Chairman Johnson; it is my hope that one day we can hold a field hearing on Social Security in Plano, Texas. Perhaps we can ask our staffs to get together to make this a reality and take the Ways & Means Committee directly to the people, your constituents in the great state of Texas.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy announced today the approval of two long-term applications to export additional liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Lake Charles LNG Liquefaction Project in Lake Charles, LA. Additional exports in the amount of 0.33 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of natural gas are approved from Lake Charles’s proposed liquefaction facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Andrew Byers, 27, of Craigmont, Idaho, Brice Heimgartner, 25, of Clarkston, Washington, and Salvador Saucedo, 27, of Milton-Freewater, Oregon, pleaded guilty this week to federal drug charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. Byers, Heimgartner and Saucedo pleaded guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy announced today that Raymond DeJesus, 24, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison, and a $1,000,000 fine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Trumpcare will devastate millions of Americans by saddling them with higher health care costs through steep deductibles or sky-high premiums for health insurance.
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
Release: Serbia’s investment climate is slowly improving, driven by important macroeconomic reforms, greater political and financial stability, improved fiscal discipline, and a European Union (EU) accession process that provides impetus for legal changes that improve the business environment. The government’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant MARY ANN B. CANTORES, age 37, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today by Chief Judge Frances Tydingco-Gatewood to a 27-month term of imprisonment, to be followed by...
By State Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after meeting today with President Moon Jae-in of the Republic of Korea...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for falsely representing a number to be his social security number.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 29, 2017
News Release: The lightning-caused Narvak Lake Fire was discovered by detection aircraft on Tuesday, June 27. It is burning on the western shore of Narvak Lake, which is on the northwestern edge of the “boot" portion of the Gates of the Arctic National Preserve. As of the most recent detection overflight on Wednesday...
