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News Tipoffs - Connecticut Editors Newsletter for Wednesday April 24, 2024 ( 5 items )  

Calif. A.G. Bonta, Governor Newsom, and CARB Lead Multistate Coalition to Defend U.S. EPA's Final Rule for Light-Duty Vehicle Emission Standards for Model Years 2027-2032
OAKLAND, California, April 24 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release: On behalf of California and leading a multistate coalition of 23 attorneys general and four cities, California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Governor Gavin Newsom, and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) filed a motion to intervene in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to help defend the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)'s final rule for light- and medium-duty vehic  more

Conn. Gov. Lamont Applauds Final Legislative Approval of State Employee Wage Reopener Agreement
HARTFORD, Connecticut, April 24 -- Gov. Ned Lamont, D-Connecticut, issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: Governor Ned Lamont is applauding both chambers of the Connecticut General Assembly for voting today in favor of approving an agreement reached between his administration and the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition (SEBAC) on the wage reopener for 2024-2025, as required under the current operating contract. The Senate approved it by a vote of 24 to 12 (Senate Resolutio  more

Conn. U.S. Attorney: Member of Violent New Haven Gang Pleads Guilty to Racketeering Charge
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, April 24 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on April 23, 2024: SAMUEL DOUGLAS, also known as "Blamm," 25, of New Haven, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in New Haven to a racketeering offense stemming from his role in a violent New Haven street gang. Today's announcement was made by Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; John P. D  more

D.C. U.S. Attorney: Repeat Offender Sentenced for Narcotics Trafficking and Possession of a Machinegun in Nightclub
WASHINGTON, April 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release: Bryan Rice, 35, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for trafficking fentanyl and cocaine base in an open-air drug market in Northwest and being in possession of a firearm at a District nightclub, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves, FBI Special Agent in Charge David J. Scott of the Washington Field Office's Criminal and Cyber Division, and Ch  more

Fannie Mae Announces Tender Offer for Any & All of Certain CAS Notes
WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Fannie Mae issued the following news release on April 22, 2024: Fannie Mae (FNMA/OTCQB) today announced that it has commenced fixed-price cash tender offers (each, an "Offer" and, collectively, the "Offers") for the purchase of any and all of the Connecticut Avenue Securities(R) (CAS) Notes listed below (the "Notes"), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase and related Notice of Guaranteed Delivery, each dated as of April 22, 2024   more