News from April 2018
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - A Guatemalan man, who was previously convicted of two federal identity theft felonies, was sentenced Tuesday to 22 months in federal prison for illegally re-entering the United States after having been deported.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) announced today Staff Director David Stewart will be departing the Committee staff.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Mr. Chairman, thank you for inviting the Secretary of Labor here to discuss this important issue.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: A seven-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Central Islip charging Bloods gang member Lawrence Lewis, also known as “L Boogs," with the July 29, 2017 murder of John Birt, firearms offenses, and narcotics possession and distribution. Lewis was arrested yesterday and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon before United States District Judge Joanna Seybert.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Lexington, Mo., business owner was sentenced in federal court today for failing to pay over to the IRS nearly $1.7 million in payroll taxes.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Today, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Press Secretary Tyler Q. Houlton released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to void certain aspects of the aggravated felony ground of deportability.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: On Apr. 11, the Department of Justice secured the denaturalization of two individuals – one convicted of engaging in sexual contact with a minor, and the other who fictitiously created a family to secure a Diversity Immigrant Visa. Judge Joe Fish of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced today that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has reached a prescription drug information-sharing agreement with 48 Attorneys General.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Attorney General Jeff Sessions today announced that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would affect its limits on annual opioid production.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Mike Stuart announced today a major takedown of drug traffickers and related drug networks recently indicted by a federal grand jury in Huntington, as well as other narcotics, violent crime and firearm related targets. Joining United States Attorney Stuart in the announcement were ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Greenbelt, Maryland, returned an indictment, which was unseal today, charging a married couple with conspiracy to defraud the United States and four counts of filing false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Robert K. Hur for the District of Maryland.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Terry J. Albury, a former Special Agent of the FBI, pleaded guilty today in the District of Minnesota in connection with his unauthorized disclosure and retention of classified national defense information.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: The federal banking agencies today proposed a revision to their regulatory capital rules to address and provide an option to phase in the regulatory capital effects of the new accounting standard for credit losses, known as the "Current Expected Credit Losses" (CECL) methodology.
By Fed Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday released the minutes of its interest rate meetings from February 26 through March 21, 2018.
By Commerce News Now | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Today, Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross commended the innovative, two-year pilot program that grants partial management responsibility of the Gulf of Mexico red snapper fishery to the five Gulf states. Red snapper caught by private anglers in state and federal waters off Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas will be covered by the program.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: KIDDER COUNTY, ND – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited excavation contractor Kamphuis Pipeline Company for exposing employees to trench cave-ins and other serious hazards while installing water metering pits and lines. The company faces proposed penalties of $454,750.
By Labor Gazette | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: GRETNA, NE – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Nebraska contractor Premier Underground LLC for failing to protect its workers from excavation collapse hazards. The company faces proposed penalties of $46,930.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 17, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on April 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Apr 17, 2018
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on April 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Apr 17, 2018
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on April 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
