News from January 2018
By DOL Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Today, the Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), held a hearing on “Protecting Privacy, Promoting Policy: Evidence-Based Policymaking and the Future of Education."
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: For Theft Of Government Property. FORT WAYNE - The United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Thomas L. Kirsch II, announced that Jamie Buckner, age 48, of Peru Indiana, was sentenced before Chief Judge Theresa Springmann on her guilty plea to eight counts of theft of government property.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chairman Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a Member Day hearing entitled “Legislation to Improve Tax Administration" on Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 at 2:00 PM in room 1100 of the Longworth House Office Building. The hearing will provide Members of Congress with an opportunity to present their proposals for improving the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Christopher F. Venti, 49, of Ocala, Florida, formerly of Hamburg, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud and tax evasion, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Wolford to 46 months in prison. Venti was also ordered to pay approximately $1,700,000 in restitution.
By State Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a lead author of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), today released the following statement on implementation of the legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Wheeling, West Virginia, man has admitted to firearm and drug charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOE Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Employees in the Savannah River Site ’s (SRS) recently replaced one of the facility’s two dissolvers for the first time in a decade, allowing the facility to perform its vital national security mission even faster.
By USDA Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
Release: The systems approach established by APHIS scientists is designed to protect against the introduction of plant pests and diseases. The systems approach requires the registration and monitoring of greenhouses and specific sanitation and pest control practices in Taiwan. In addition, each shipment must ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Eight members of a large methamphetamine and heroin drug trafficking organization were sentenced today for crimes involving conspiracy to distribute those drugs. Michael T. Hixson, Acting Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Kansas City District Office announced the sentences that were handed down by United States Chief District Judge Greg Kays, of the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Subcommittee on Federal Lands held its second legislative hearing on H.R. 4532, the “Shash Jaa National Monument and Indian Creek National Monument Act." Introduced by Rep. John Curtis (R-UT), the bill creates the first tribally co-managed national monument in history.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said following the State of the Union that President Trump’s push to weaken or eliminate a wide swath of environmental standards in the name of infrastructure development shows the president cares about making rich corporations happy more than...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - U.S. Attorney J. Douglas Overbey announced today that the Eastern District of Tennessee collected $11,041,603.14, in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2017. Of this amount, $9,282,250.34, was collected in criminal actions and $1,759,352.80, was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: FBI Honors Danny Ludeman, President and CEO of Concordance Academy.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that ZOE WILLIAMS, age 25, has pleaded guilty to one count of Conspiracy to Commit Bank Robbery with a Firearm in violation of Title 18, U.S.C. Section 371. The defendant faces a maximum sentence of five (5) years in the Bureau of Prisons, three (3) years of supervised release, a fine of up to $250,000, and restitution to the victim bank in this case.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: An avalanche beacon training park is located at Hidden Valley in Rocky Mountain National Park. This avalanche beacon park opened last winter, and is designed for back country enthusiasts to practice simulated avalanche searches using their own beacons/transceivers and probes. The wireless beacon training park has eight transmitters/targets and can be setup for single or multiple scenarios.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that RUBEN MORALES, 44, of Hartford, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to one count of distribution of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: City of Miami police officer Dermis Hernandez, 41, of Homestead, was arrested by the FBI for participation in a scheme where Hernandez falsely represented to victim investors that he was able to offer a low risk investment with guaranteed returns through high-interest loans his company made to Costa Rican property owners.
By State Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Dear Mr. Secretary:. Yesterday, the Treasury Department transmitted to Congress the Report on Oligarchs and Parastatal Entities of the Russian Federation required by Section 241 of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act. Individuals included on this list are not automatically subject...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that a Fort Collins, Colorado, man convicted of Attempted Receipt of Child Pornography was sentenced on Jan. 24, 2018, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 30, 2018
News Release: Government Contractor Charged in $2.6 Million Fraud Scheme.
