News from April 2018
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Due to the extensive damage caused in the United States and Caribbean last year, the World Meteorological Organization’s Region IV Hurricane Committee has officially retired these names. Storm names are retired if they were so deadly or destructive that the future use of the name would be insensitive - otherwise names are reused by NOAA’s National Hurricane Center on a six-year cycle.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Had Previous Convictions for Theft and Assault.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: BAR HARBOR, MAINE - The carriage roads in the park are closed indefinitely to all users until the roads dry out and become firm enough to prevent damage to their gravel surface. The recent wet weather and melting snow have softened the carriage roads and made them susceptible to damage. Walking, bicycling, and riding horses on the carriage roads under the current conditions can cause ruts and potholes that will channel water and exacerbate erosion.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Skagway - The National Park Service (NPS) and the Municipality of Skagway are studying air and water quality. Studies begin in April 2018 and continue throughout spring of 2019.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Earlier today, an indictment was unsealed in federal court in Brooklyn charging Rafael Caro Quintero with leading a continuing criminal enterprise and other drug-related crimes through his leadership of the Caro Quintero drug trafficking organization, a faction of the Mexican organized crime syndicate...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - Three Lawrence men and one Leominster man were indicted today in federal court in Worcester in connection with a heroin trafficking scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: An Ashland County man was indicted after having at least five children send him nude images of themselves, said U.S. Attorney Justin E. Herdman and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal grand jury sitting in Kansas City, Kan., returned an indictment Wednesday charging a Jefferson County, Kan., man with seven counts of willful failure to pay over employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill continued to seek answers on over $50 million in questionable costs billed to taxpayers-including luxury cars-under a federal contract for mentoring and training the Afghan security forces, known as Legacy East. At the hearing, top Army officials committed to providing key information to McCaskill as part of her ongoing investigation.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: United States District Court Judge Joel H. Slomsky on Wednesday ordered Renee Tartaglione to forfeit $2.4 million in proceeds from her scheme to defraud the Juniata Community Mental Health Clinic. Tartaglione was convicted in June 2017, on all 53 counts of conspiracy, theft, fraud and tax evasion. Tartaglione siphoned some $2 million from the clinic of which she was president, and used some of that money to improve a building she owned that then appreciated in value.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Government Seeks to Return 1911 Painting by Marc Chagall to Estate of Collectors Who Rightfully Owned It.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: The annual hearing on tax filing season typically inspires the level of enthusiasm most people bring to a prolonged root canal procedure. But this year, there are big tax policy issues with serious consequences facing millions of Americans.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on National Security, sent a letter requesting documents from Stephen Calk-the banker who allegedly loaned Paul Manafort $16 million in exchange for promises to name him to a top position within the Trump Administration.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D-MD), Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-VA), Rep. Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (D-VA), Senator Tom Carper (D-DE), and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) sent a letter to President Donald Trump and a letter to EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt expressing grave concerns...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: Fugitive Wanted for the Kidnapping and Murder of a Federal Agent is Added to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Maurice Antoine Jefferson, 50, of Vacaville, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to 11 years in prison for possessing marijuana for distribution near a school zone, possessing cocaine for distribution, and possessing a firearm as a felon, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to 10 years in prison for money laundering in connection with a fraud scheme that resulted in a loss of at least $3.9 million.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
Release: This report is submitted to fulfill the requirement for an annual report on the assistance related to international terrorism under section 502(b) of the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985, as amended (22 U.S.C. § 2349aa-7(b)). It describes how the Department of State’s programs during FY 2017 strengthened non-military efforts, partnerships, and capacity around the world to address evolving terrorism challenges.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and co-chair of the Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism, today issued the following statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day...
By EPA Newswire | Apr 12, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, chaired by Rep. Gregg Harper (R-MS), announced a hearing with the leadership of national and regional drug distributors in regards to the committee’s bipartisan investigation into alleged pill dumping in West Virginia. The hearing will...
