News from September 2017
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a hearing on ways to streamline the individual tax system to make it work better for American individuals and families.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Latavia Hassan, 33, of Mastic, New York, was placed on probation for four years and Chantel Lightner, 27, of Wyandanch, New York, was placed on probation for two years following their convictions for conspiracy to use counterfeit credit cards, announced Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez is urging Puerto Rico residents and businesses to be aware of and report suspected fraudulent activity related to disaster relief operations and federal funding for victims. The USAO for the District of Puerto Rico, in coordination with...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Earlier today at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, United States District Judge Ann M. Donnelly sentenced the defendant Donald Warren to 18 years’ imprisonment, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for shooting a woman during the course of a carjacking in Queens, New York, ...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, issued the following statement on the passage of H.R. 3354, the Make America Secure and Prosperous Appropriations Act, 2018...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Dejuan Wingard, 22, of Chicago, Illinois was sentenced to 24 months imprisonment for his role in a “smash and grab" theft of Chanel handbags at the Saks Fifth Avenue in Plaza Frontenac on Nov. 26, 2016. Wingard is the seventh of thirteen individuals to have pleaded guilty in connection with the offense.
By State Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and Ben Cardin (D-Md.) today applauded a $25 million award from the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP) for the Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS). The funding ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced that Sylvia Toolie, 60, and her sister, Peggy Akeya, 57, of Savoonga, Alaska, were sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess for embezzling funds from the Native Village of Savoonga (“Native Village of Savoonga" or “the Tribe"), which is located on St. Lawrence Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Nive Hagay, 31, of Los Angeles, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to two years in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release for conducting an illegal gambling business and distributing cocaine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a Georgetown woman was sentenced Wednesday to 24 months in prison for making fake U.S. $20 bills.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Defendant Targeted Fast Food Stores in Nassau, Suffolk and Queens.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: FORT WAYNE, Ind. - An Ohio man was sentenced Thursday to 145 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute about 154 pounds of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY - A Nelson County, Kentucky, man was sentenced in United States District Court this week by District Judge David J. Hale, to 10 years in prison followed by a five year period of supervised release for violating federal drug trafficking laws, announced United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOE Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Today, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy announced contracts have been awarded from the recent congressionally-mandated Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 sale of Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) crude oil. DOE issued a Notice of Sale for a price-competitive sale of up to 14 million barrels of sour crude oil from the SPR on Aug. 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Raytown, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to engaging in a bankruptcy fraud scheme in order to prevent dozens of rental properties from being sold by the county for failure to pay property taxes.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Valles Caldera National Preserve will be hosting two star parties this fall on Saturday, September 23rdfrom 7:00 pm to 10:30 pm and Saturday, October 14th from 6:30 pm to 10:00 pm. To minimize light pollution, gates will close 1.5 hours after the event begins, so late arrivals risk not being able to participate.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: Rocky Mountain Incident Management Team Black.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - The former superintendent of Lincoln-Way Community High School District 210 has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly misappropriating school funds for his own benefit and concealing the district’s true financial deficit from the public.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Tuesday, Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) introduced, the “Tribal Recognition Act of 2017." The bill restores the constitutional framework to tribal recognition authorities vested with Congress under Article I. Chairman Bishop issued the following statement.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 14, 2017
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 198,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China during the 2017/2018 marketing year.
