Day: April 14, 2016

Park Forest Police Blotter Reports April 14, 2016

Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)–Editor’s Note: We continue our reporting on news from police reports. Besides covering the many stories from around Park Forest that otherwise might go unnoticed, we want to bring more complete coverage of police reports than is reported by other local media. An arrest does not mean that[Read More…]

California Man Pleads Guilty to Manufacturing Guns and Dealing in Firearms and Possession of a Machinegun

CALIFORNIA–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2016.  Daniel Albert Crowninshield, 45, of Sacramento, California, pleaded guilty today to unlawfully manufacturing and dealing in firearms and possession of an unregistered machinegun, announced U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner for the Eastern District of California. In his plea agreement, Crowninshield, who was also known by his online[Read More…]

Former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Employee Sentenced to 30 Years in Prison for Transportation and Possession of Child Pornography

VIRGINIA–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 206.  A former regional chief of public affairs for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was sentenced to 30 years in prison today in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia for charges involving the sexual exploitation of children, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R.[Read More…]

U.S. Nuclear Engineer, China General Nuclear Power Company and Energy Technology International Indicted in Nuclear Power Conspiracy Against the United States

TENNESSEE–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2016.  A two-count indictment was unsealed today in the Eastern District of Tennessee charging Szuhsiung Ho, aka Allen Ho, a citizen of the United States; China General Nuclear Power Company (CGNPC), formerly known as the China Guangdong Nuclear Power Company and Energy Technology International (ETI) for conspiracy to[Read More…]

Local Law Firms Support Student Legal Services at DePaul University

Endowment campaign raises more than $100,000 The Rev. Thomas M. Croak, C.M., founding director of Croak Student Legal Services, and current director Sarah Baum at the program’s Lincoln Park office. A recent endowment campaign has raised more than $100,000 to support the program. (DePaul University/Jeff Carrion) CHICAGO —(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2016. [Read More…]

Senator Kirk Statement on Reports a German Bank with Illinois Ties May Be Facilitating Anti-Israel BDS Accounts

WASHINGTON –(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2016.  U.S. Senator Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) today issued the following statement after Israel warned German banks about the “potential legal, reputational and ethical consequences” of facilitating financial accounts used by anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) groups: “I am alarmed by reports that Commerzbank, a German bank headquartered in Frankfurt[Read More…]

Many Profitable Corporations Pay Zero Federal Income Taxes, GAO Finds

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2016 – Large, profitable American corporations paid just 14 percent of their profits in federal income taxes on average from 2008 through 2012 and about one-fifth of them paid nothing at all each year, according to a new study prepared for Sen. Bernie Sanders by the Government Accountability[Read More…]

Congresswoman Robin Kelly Statement on the Two-Year Anniversary of Kidnapped Nigerian Schoolgirls

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2016. Congresswoman Robin Kelly, (D) the only Member of the Illinois Congressional Delegation to serve on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released the following statement today on the second anniversary of the kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria. “Two years ago, the terrorist organization Boko Haram[Read More…]

Senator Warren Introduces Bill to Simplify Tax Filing

As Tax Day Nears, Extensive Report Examines Industry Capture of the Filing Process, Efforts to Block IRS Reforms Washington, DC –(ENEWSPF)–April 14, 2016.   United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) yesterday introduced the Tax Filing Simplification Act of 2016 to simplify and decrease the costs of the tax filing process[Read More…]

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