News from March 2018
By Interior Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Honolulu - Pearl Harbor Survivor Everett Hyland turns 95 on March 17th, and the public is invited to help celebrate. Join us at the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center at 11:00 AM on Sunday, March 18, to wish him a happy birthday! The media is welcome to cover the event.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that four previously deported aliens were indicted separately on March 14, 2018, by a federal grand jury for illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien.
By State Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding President Trump’s admission that he “had no idea" whether the United States has a trade deficit with Canada while meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 15, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - A federal grand jury has returned a superseding indictment charging Oscar Arnelson Rodriguez-Cruz (40, Honduras) with conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of federal payroll taxes, specifically the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA), Social Security...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The Honorable John C. Anderson, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, will testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs during an oversight hearing on “Opioids in Indian Country: Beyond the Crisis to Healing in the Community," at 2:30 p.m. (EDT)/12:30 p.m. (MDT), Wednesday...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: BOSTON - A Chelsea man pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to his role in a large-scale methamphetamine trafficking and money laundering ring operating between Massachusetts and California.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: ATLANTA - Jun Ying has been indicted on federal charges of insider trading relating to his sales of Equifax Inc. securities in advance of its announcement regarding a data breach.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Historic St. Helena Parish, Louisiana, Public School Desegregation Case Successfully Resolved.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Senator Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the Trump Organization and Kushner Companies, LLC, seeking documents regarding reports of their previously undisclosed business arrangements.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined by other Democrats, took to the Senate floor to call on Secretary Azar to fire Scott Lloyd as Director of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR).
By Interior Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: The National Park Service has issued a Request for Expressions of Interest (RFEI) regarding the future use of Bluffs Restaurant at Doughton Park on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Interested parties are invited submit their concept(s) for potential future use of the historic coffee shop located at Milepost 241.1 by May 4, 2018.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Charles E. Peeler, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that on March, 12, 2018, United States District Court Judge Leslie J. Abrams sentenced Christopher Belt, age 27, of Columbus, GA, to 84 months imprisonment for the offense of assault on a federal employee. Mr. Belt had pled guilty to the offense on Dec. 12, 2017.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., March 14, 2018) – U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation hearing entitled “Rebuilding Infrastructure in America: Administration Perspectives.” Secretary Perdue was joined by Department of Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, Department of Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, and Department of Energy Secretary Rick Perry.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: (Washington, D.C., March 14, 2018) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Greg Ibach today issued the following statement regarding an agreement among Congressional leaders to address concerns with recent changes to Section 199A of the federal tax code. Some agriculture stakeholders had raised questions about potential market effects on cooperatives and independent grain-related businesses.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: (WASHINGTON, D.C., March 14, 2018) — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue will testify before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation at 10:00 a.m. ET today. These are the Secretary's remarks submitted to the record. They are embargoed until the conclusion of the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Chairman Hoeven, Vice-Chairman Udall, and Members of the Committee: Thank you for inviting us today to discuss this critical issue and the Department of Justice’s (the Department) efforts to support Native communities dealing with the devastating aftermath of the opioid epidemic. The Department has been uncompromising in our commitment to combatting drug abuse and drug crimes, particularly opioids, in Indian country and across the nation.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: A federal jury today convicted Raul Ernesto Landaverde-Giron, aka Humilde and Decente, of Silver Spring, Maryland of conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise in connection with his gang activity as a member of La Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13. Landaverde-Giron was also found guilty of murder ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: A Fayette County, West Virginia, business owner was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for failing to pay over employment taxes, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Richard E. Zuckerman of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney Michael B. Stuart for the Southern ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and United States Attorney Brandon Fremin for the Middle District of Louisiana announced today the successful resolution of the oldest current school desegregation case in the State of Louisiana, involving the St. Helena Parish Public School District.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 14, 2018
News Release: Three Miami, Florida-area home health agency owners were charged in an indictment unsealed yesterday for their alleged participation in a health care fraud scheme involving a now-defunct home health agency in Miami.
