News from May 2014
By DOT News Wire | May 16, 2014
News Release: General Motors agrees to pay maximum $35 million penalty for violating federal safety laws in Chevrolet Cobalt investigation
By DOT News Wire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Federal Highway Administration Research Awards. The Federal Highway Administration will award up to $450,000 in research pilots to test the delivery of goods during off-peak hours in urban areas with emerging or growing congestion problems. Working with the Environmental Protection Agency, the pilots ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. -A California man was sentenced to 50 months in prison for bulk cash smuggling, announced United States Attorney Ripley Rand.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: William J. Frio, 58, of Folsom, PA, is charged by indictment, unsealed today, in a tax evasion scheme involving the Nifty Fifty’s restaurant chain, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. Frio is charged with conspiracy to commit tax evasion by operating the Nifty Fifty’s long-running scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. -United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that William Joseph Folse, Jr., 51, of Scott, La., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Foote, to 12 months in prison and three years of supervised release for making false statements to the Social Security Administration (SSA) concerning his disability status in order to fraudulently receive nearly $200,000 in benefits. He was also ordered to pay $199,007.80 in restitution to the SSA.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, May 16, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAWN M. GUARINO, also known as Dawn DeCapua Guarino, 54, of Branford, was sentenced today by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Assaulted A Man Outside Capitol Hill Nightclub.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Friday, May 16, 2014. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that KHALID ABOUTAYEB, 45, of Bridgeport, and his sister, JAMILA ABOUTAYEB, 54, of Fairfield, were arrested...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jaren Holley, 23, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 15-year prison term for a brazen, armed home invasion he committed in Southeast Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced. During the crime, Holley’s accomplice was fatally shot by one of the victims, who feared for his life.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: BOSTON - Five individuals were charged in an indictment unsealed today for operating a multistate sex trafficking ring centered in Massachusetts and Maine involving minors and adult women.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Learn why “Half the Park is After Dark" and kick-off your holiday weekend by enjoying two unique events on Friday, May 23, 2014 at Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore (National Lakeshore). At 7:00 p.m. at the Philip A. Hart Visitor Center in Empire, Michigan, join astronomer, author, artist, and night...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. Southern District of Illinois. Friday, May 16, 2014. Follow @SDILNews. James Nathaniel Watts, age 30, of Cairo, Ill., was charged by criminal complaint with Felon in Possession of a Firearm, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois...
By US DOT Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, chaired by Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA), will hold a hearing next week to examine the proliferation of new ocean technologies, how such technologies could improve government performance, and any impediments that exist in the use of such technologies.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Westside Road, in Mount Rainier National Park, near the park's southwest entrance, has been closed to the public until further notice due to a rockfall involving truck-sized boulders that occurred sometime prior to Thursday, May 14. On Thursday afternoon, a park resource management crew returning from...
By US DOT Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: The Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials, chaired by U.S. Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA), will hold a hearing next week to review the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and Job Creation Act of 2011 and the implementation of reforms included in that legislation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Felon Photographed Repeated Sexual Assaults On Young Girl.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - A federal jury in Albany found Joseph L. Bruno, the former New York State Senate Majority Leader, not guilty of honest-services mail fraud following a two week trial before the Honorable Gary L. Sharpe, Chief United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Avery Gill, 56, of Buffalo, N.Y., pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara, to bank fraud. The charge carries a mandatory 30 years sentence, a fine of $1,000,000 and a term of supervised release of five years.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Michael Steinberg Earned $1.8 Million In Illegal Profits For His Hedge Fund.
By State Newswire | May 16, 2014
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events...
