News from September 2014
By DOT News Wire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Demand Demonstrates Need for Greater Transportation Investment through GROW AMERICA Act
By DOT News Wire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Demand Demonstrates Need for Greater Transportation Investment through GROW AMERICA Act
By DOT News Wire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Demand Demonstrates Need for Greater Transportation Investment through GROW AMERICA Act
By DOT News Wire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: June 2014 U.S. Airline Traffic Data
By DOE Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today questioned the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to award a $2.1 million contract to a private firm to develop a report on the effects of the agency’s proposed transition to young-growth timber management in the Tongass National Forest.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: The findings, reported for the first time, were published in the September issue of Marine Ecology Progress Series offsite link.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Jenifer E. Hoffman (37, Clermont), John C. Boschert (43, Apopka), and Bryan T. Zuzga (37, Coldwater, Michigan) with one count of conspiracy and eleven counts of wire fraud. Hoffman has also been...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Steven Payment of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced on Sept. 15, 2014, to 15 years in prison by United States District Judge Laurie Smith Camp. Payment had previously pled guilty for his involvement in a conspiracy to distribute multiple pounds of...
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has awarded more than $2.2 million in Phase I and Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards to 15 companies. The recipients conduct research in cyber-physical systems, cybersecurity, health care, manufacturing and technology transfer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas man who met a 15-year-old female run-away at a bus station, took her, and made her engage in sex acts for money, was sentenced this morning by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to 15 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release. U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldaña of the Northern District of Texas made the announcement today.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has indicted the owner of Alpha Diagnostics, Rafael Chikvashvili, age 67, of Baltimore, Maryland, on health care fraud and other charges related to a scheme to defraud Medicare and Medicaid of more than $7.5 million. The indictment was returned on Sept. 11, 2014, and unsealed today. Chikvashvili had an initial appearance today in U.S. District Court in Baltimore and was released under the supervision of U.S. Pretrial Services.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: SAN JOSE - Liping Liu was sentenced today to 30 months imprisonment, a $25,000 fine, and ordered to pay $744,248 in restitution for tax evasion, United States Attorney Melinda Haag and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge José M. Martinez announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Canadian citizen Armitdeep Mann, 33, of Toronto, Canada, was sentenced today to five years and one month in prison by United States District Judge Anthony W. Ishii for conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: GREENVILLE - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that JOANNE SESSION SMITH, 57, of Clayton, AL MACE, 33, of Smithfield, DWAYNE MAY, 47, of Selma, BRENDA RICHARDSON, 50, of Selma, and CHERIE SNEAD, 40, of Selma, were each sentenced resulting from their earlier guilty pleas to conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 21-year-old Tobyhanna man pleaded guilty today before Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley to distributing heroin in the Monroe County area between November 2013 and August 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: More Than 200,000 Gallons Of Stolen, Used Cooking Oil Was Sold For Processing To Animal Feed And Biofuel.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Liberty, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to his role in a conspiracy that produced and sold thousands of false identification documents to illegal aliens.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: The National Weather Service in the San Francisco Bay Area has issued a beach hazard statement for strong rip currents in effect through this evening.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: First State Bank Vice President Made More Than $1.4 Million in Bad Bank Loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 15, 2014
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Pierre S. Rheau, 34, of Providence, was sentenced on Friday to 63 months in federal prison for robbing a Barrington branch office of Bank of America while armed with a BB gun, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha, Barrington Police Chief John M. LaCross, East Providence Police Chief Christopher J. Parella and Vincent B. Lisi, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston Field Office of the FBI.
