NEW YORK—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. The Saudi Arabian authorities must halt all executions, Amnesty International said after four members of the same family were executed today as part of a “disturbing” recent surge in the use of the death penalty in the country. The two sets of brothers from the same[Read More…]
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ACLU and Lambda Legal Ask Supreme Court to Reject Motion to Delay Virginia Marriages
Lawyers for Class of All Same-Sex Couples in Virginia Also Seek Speedy Review on Merits if Stay is Granted Richmond, Va.–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2014. Today, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU of Virginia, and Lambda Legal will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to deny the motion filed Thursday by Prince William[Read More…]
Governor Quinn Announces AAR Corporation to Expand in Rockford and Create 500 Jobs
AAR to Open a New Hangar at Rockford International Airport to Service Next Generation Aircraft ROCKFORD–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2014. Governor Pat Quinn today announced that global aircraft service leader AAR Corporation is opening a new maintenance and repair hangar in Rockford that will create up to 500 new jobs over five[Read More…]
State Department Briefing by Marie Harf, August 18, 2014
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2014. Index for Today’s Briefing DEPARTMENT MIDDLE EAST PEACE SYRIA / IRAQ TERRORIST DESIGNATIONS NORTH KOREA INDIA / PAKISTAN EGYPT MIDDLE EAST PEACE UKRAINE LIBYA GERMANY AFGHANISTAN IRAQ TRANSCRIPT: 1:16 p.m. EDT MS. HARF: Hello, everyone. Happy Monday. Welcome to the daily press briefing. Welcome back,[Read More…]
Former Rabobank LIBOR Submitter Pleads Guilty for Scheme to Manipulate Yen LIBOR
Defendant Is Second Former Rabobank Employee to Plead Guilty in LIBOR Rigging Scandal Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. A former Coöperatieve Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. (Rabobank) Japanese Yen London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR) submitter pleaded guilty today for his role in a conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud by manipulating Rabobank’s[Read More…]
Armenian Power Associate Sentenced to More Than 13 Years in Prison for Racketeering Conspiracy
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. An associate of the Armenian Power gang, who was convicted at trial for his role in a racketeering conspiracy that included stealing personal and financial information of elderly bank customers for accounts valued at more than $25 million, was sentenced to serve 160 months in prison[Read More…]
Former Patriarch of the Lorenzana Drug Trafficking Organization Pleads Guilty to Drug Conspiracy Charges
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. Waldemar Lorenzana Sr., 75, the patriarch of the Lorenzana drug trafficking organization in Guatemala, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to import over 450 kilograms of cocaine into the United States. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and Acting Special Agent[Read More…]
Attorney General Holder’s Statement on Latest Developments in Federal Civil Rights Investigation in Ferguson, MO, Aug. 18, 2014
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. Attorney General Eric Holder released the following statement Monday following his briefing of President Obama on the latest developments in the federal civil rights investigation in Ferguson, Missouri: “As I informed the President this afternoon, the full resources of the Department of Justice are being committed[Read More…]
Statement by President Obama on the Completion by the M/V Cape Ray of the Destruction of Syria’s Declared Chemical Weapons
Washington, DC—(ENEWSPF)—August 18, 2014. Today we mark an important achievement in our ongoing effort to counter the spread of weapons of mass destruction by eliminating Syria’s declared chemical weapons stockpile. The most lethal declared chemical weapons possessed by the Syrian regime were destroyed by dedicated U.S. civilian and military professionals[Read More…]
Carts and Cocktails 2014 Event Honors Mark diSuvero, Exhibits Works of Chakaia Booker and Barry Tinsley
University Park, IL.—(ENEWSPF)–August 18, 2014 – Governors State University celebrates several new additions at the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park as well as the 45th anniversary of one of its signature works at Carts & Cocktails 2014, which will be held Saturday, September 13, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. The event[Read More…]
