News from April 2014
By Labor Gazette | Apr 1, 2014
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on April 1, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced that it has revoked the operating authority of two Massachusetts-based bus companies and declared a Texas trucking company to be an imminent hazard to public safety, resulting in the shut-down of all three carriers for disregarding federal safety regulations and putting their drivers, passengers, and the motoring public at risk.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federal grand jury in Wichita today returned an indictment charging a Wichita man with three robberies, including two only eight days apart at a Valero gas station, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that two Kansas City, Mo., men were convicted in federal court today for their roles in a 10-year long drug-trafficking conspiracy that resulted in the death of one individual and the distribution of more than three kilograms of heroin in the Kansas City area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday today sentenced Kesham Evans Jr. to two years in federal prison on one count of aggravated identity theft charged in connection with Evans cashing two fraudulent Treasury checks. Evans pleaded guilty on January 4, 2014.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Dear Mr. Utt: We are writing to request documents relating to KBR’s treatment of potential whistleblowers seeking to report wrongdoing at the company, particularly with respect to its contracts with federal government agencies. According to a recent Washington Post article, KBR’s Vice President of...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: A corrupt MoneyGram/Western Union agent was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison today, the United Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced. Itohan Agho-Allen, of Brooklyn, New York, was convicted by a federal jury in Harrisburg of charges of laundering money paid by victims of international telemarketing fraud schemes following a six-day trial in July, 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: MONROE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that former East Carroll Parish Sheriff Mark Wayne Shumate, 52, of Lake Providence, La., pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen L. Hayes, to aiding and abetting a felon in the possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: PHOENIX. - On March 31, 2014, Henry Yazzie, 43, of Tuba City, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge David G. Campbell to 20 years in prison followed by lifetime supervised release. Yazzie previously pleaded guilty to one count of abusive sexual contact of a minor.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced that it would be issuing a final rule * to improve workplace safety and health for workers performing electric power generation, transmission and distribution work.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Springfield, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Lonnie Ray Orr, 29, of Springfield...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: POINT REYES STATION, CALIFORNIA - Rebels with a Cause, a documentary airing on PBS stations this April, celebrates the people and passion that saved the coastal wonders that would become the Point Reyes National Seashore and the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. With California's rapid population...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) today spoke on Senate floor about the latest U.S. Coast Guard medevac out of King Cove, Alaska, and the continued need for an access road to link the remote Alaska Peninsula community with reliable medical care in an emergency.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Carbon County man was sentenced yesterday, in federal court in Scranton by Senior United States District Judge Edwin M. Kosik, to serve 30 months in prison on the charge of being an unlawful user of controlled substances in possession of firearms.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Washington - Under regulations of the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA), Green Farms of Nevada Inc., operating in Las Vegas, Nev., has posted $100,000 cash surety agreement.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: SAN JUAN, PR - This morning, the Caribbean Corridor Strike Force (CCSF) dismantled a drug trafficking organization responsible for the importation of multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine into Puerto Rico and the transportation of drug money between Puerto Rico-Culebra-St. Thomas announced United States Attorney Rosa Emilia Rodríguez-Vélez today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, announce that Anthony Livoti, Jr., 65, of Fort Lauderdale, was sentenced today in Miami by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Scola, Jr. to ten years in prison. Livoti was also ordered to pay over $800 million in restitution to fraud victims.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge W. Earl Britt, sentenced MARDOQUEO MEJIA FAJARDO and JORGE ERNESTO TINOCO to more than 4 years incarceration and ordered them to pay restitution of approximately $1.4 million to the United States Department of Treasury for their participation in a conspiracy to file false claims for IRS refunds.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: DUBLIN, Va. - Building on President Obama’s Better Buildings Initiative and the Administration’s broader efforts to double energy productivity by 2030, the Department of Energy today recognized Volvo Group North America for its leadership in energy efficiency at the New River Valley assembly plant near...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 1, 2014
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - United States Attorney Karen Loeffler announced that four defendants were sentenced in the past week for their roles in an international conspiracy to launder the proceeds of drug trafficking.
