News from April 2018
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of Atius Technology Institute (“Atius"), a privately owned, non-accredited school specializing in information technology courses, pleaded guilty today to bribing a public official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in exchange for the public official’s facilitation...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Enterprise Trafficked Heroin from Baltimore to Front Royal.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) and Ranking Member Richard Neal (D-MA), along with Subcommittee on Health Chairman Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Ranking Member Sandy Levin (D-MI), released a white paper with solutions to combat the opioid epidemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Today, House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following opening statement for the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigations oversight hearing on the Bureau of Prisons...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City, Mo., woman has been sentenced in federal court for a fraud scheme in which she embezzled more than $1 million from her employer.
By State Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks at a full committee markup of four measures...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A wanted fugitive who shot at law enforcement during a high-speed chase through the northeast Reno area was sentenced today to 175 months in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: For Being A Felon In Possession Of A Firearm.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: National Park Week, April 21-29, 2018, is an annual national celebration of people, parks, trails, heritage areas, national trails and rivers, seashores, historic sites, beautiful landscapes, and so many more places that are remarkable. National Park Week is a great time to connect with the vast network of national parks, which protect and preserve our natural and cultural history.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) joined House Republican Leadership at a weekly press briefing to discuss Tax Day and the need for a new IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: FBI Tech Tuesday-Building a Digital Defense Against Tech Support Fraud, Part 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found JOSEPH STEELE, also known as “Joey," 32, of Hartford, guilty of drug and firearm offenses. The trial before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea began on April 12 and the jury returned verdicts of guilty on three counts of a four-count indictment yesterday afternoon.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Trump signed into law the Strengthening Protections for Social Security Beneficiaries Act of 2018 (H.R. 4547). Introduced by Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee Chairman Sam Johnson (R-TX) and Ranking Member John Larson (D-CT), this bipartisan legislation will modernize the representative payee program so that it will better protect Social Security beneficiaries who are unable to manage their own benefits.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today issued the following statement regarding the failure of IRS’ electronic tax return filing and payment systems...
By State Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) will convene a hearing entitled “U.S. Policy Toward a Turbulent Middle East.".
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Robert J. Higdon, Jr., announced today that, DONOVAN DAVE DIXON, 51 of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was convicted after a four-day jury trial before Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III. The jury found...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CHRIS WELLS, age 34, of New Orleans, pled guilty to several drug and firearms charges, including conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one hundred grams or more of heroin and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Two people were charged in federal court with mail fraud for defrauding an insurance company.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: The Daily Herald: Sen. Orrin Hatch: Tax Day 2018: Out with the old, in with the new.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 17, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) released the following statement after the House failed to approve H.J.Res.2 - Proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States...
