News published on Federal Newswire in April 2014

News from April 2014


The US Energy Department published a two page rule on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published an eight page rule on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on April 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Digest DOT 32-14

News Release: DOT Awards San Francisco-Haneda Rights to United. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has approved United Airlines’ application to serve Tokyo’s downtown Haneda Airport from San Francisco, Calif., making final its proposed decision issued February 28. Under a U.S.-Japan agreement, U.S. airlines ...


U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx Names New Members to Maritime Industry Advisory Panel

News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the appointment of 10 new members to the Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council (MTSNAC). Established in 2010, MTSNAC is comprised of leaders from commercial transportation firms, trade associations, state and local ...


Former Raleigh Identity Thief Sent To Prison For 54 Months For Role In Expansive Credit Card Scheme

News Release: NEW BERN - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that yesterday afternoon in federal court United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan sentenced MAMADOU SALIEU BARRIE, 34, to serve a total of 54 months in prison, followed by 3 years of supervised release, on charges of Aggravated Identity...


News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that Cal Approved Seed Growers, Woodland, Calif., has paid $525 to settle alleged violations of the Federal Seed Act.


News Release: PETER M. HOFFMAN, age 63, of Los Angeles, California; MICHAEL P. ARATA, age 47, of New Orleans, Louisiana; and SUSAN HOFFMAN, age 69, of New Orleans, Louisiana were charged yesterday in a twenty-two count Superseding Indictment by a Federal Grand Jury, announced United States Attorney Kenneth Allen Polite, Jr.



News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Texas man convicted of Mailing Threatening Communications was sentenced on March 25, 2014, by Chief Judge Ralph R. Erickson, U.S. District Court in Fargo, North Dakota.


Hartford Woman Sentenced For Unlawful Selling Of Migratory Birds

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Hartford, South Dakota, woman charged by Information with Unlawful Selling of Migratory Birds pled guilty to and was sentenced on March 24, 2014, by U.S. Magistrate Judge John E. Simko.


News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that five individuals from across Eastern Washington, who fraudulently collected unemployment benefits from the Washington State Employment Security Division, have pleaded guilty to Federal charges of...


News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - J. Keith McCray, a criminal investigator with the Macon County, Ala., Sheriff’s Office, pleaded guilty in federal court today to assaulting a handcuffed man at the county jail, resulting in bodily injury.


Gun Dealer Indicted For Sale Of Firearms To A Felon

News Release: AUGUSTA, GA - An indictment was returned yesterday by a federal Grand Jury sitting in Savannah, Georgia against William Arnold Debow, 53, a federally licensed firearms dealer who was doing business as The Ponderosa Trading Company. Debow was charged with 28 counts of knowingly transferring a firearm to a convicted felon and with 10 counts of illegally transferring a handgun to out of state residents.


News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced today for the 2012 robbery of an ATM in Boston’s South End.


Virginia Man Arrested For Interference With Flight Crew Members And Attendants

News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Hopewell, Virginia, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Interference with Flight Crew Members and Attendants.


U.S. Needs Fair Regulation of Water, Not Folly of Obama's Imperial Powergrab

News Release: Last week the Obama administration released a proposal that could lengthen the already long arm of federal agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), into the affairs of practically every U.S. business, farmer, landowner, and local and state government.


News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - Mark A. Billingsley, 35, of Whitwell, Tenn., was sentenced on Apr. 3, 2014, by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 10 months in federal prison for knowingly and fraudulently making a false statement under oath in his bankruptcy case, by falsely testifying...


News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that Gary T. Butler, 48, an inmate at Oakdale Federal Correction Center, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Patricia Minaldi to an additional 96 months in prison and three years of supervised release for attacking a correctional officer.