News from February 2015
By Commerce News Now | Feb 5, 2015
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Feb. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Feb 5, 2015
The US Commerce Department published a seven page proposed rule on Feb. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the closing of a $120 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) for major improvements to the Blue Line of CTA’s “L” rail service, which will upgrade tracks and stations between the downtown Loop and Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Secretary Foxx participated in a ceremony in Chicago with Mayor Rahm Emanuel.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the selection of 10 projects that will receive a share of $55 million in competitive grants that will help put a new generation of advanced, non-polluting transit buses on the road in communities nationwide. Funding is provided through FTA’s Low or No Emission Vehicle Deployment Program (LoNo). A list of all funded projects is available here .
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: AMARILLO, Texas - Hugo Gomez-Barrientos, most recently of Hereford, Texas, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson to 120 months in federal prison on a methamphetamine distribution conviction, announced John Parker, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Johnstown, Pa., has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months in prison and three years’ supervised release on his conviction of distribution of cocaine base, in the form commonly known as "crack," United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - With Russia refusing to end its direct support of an escalating rebel offensive in Eastern Ukraine, U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, wrote President Barack Obama today urging the administration to fully implement the Ukraine Freedom Support Act.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today highlighted a new report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) which found that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rehired hundreds of employees with performance and conduct issues. The inspector general...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Defendant Intercepted in New York City While Attempting to Fly Overseas Possibly to Join Terror Organization.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that RONY RIVERA-GONZALES, age 23, a citizen of Honduras and who most recently resided in Hammond, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment for illegal use of a Social Security Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Lake Charles man and a Mexican national were sentenced to seven months (time served) and 44 months in prison respectively for transporting and possessing marijuana.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez today sentenced Carlos Jamoi Norman, 23, to 30 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that VINCENT NELSON, also known as “June," 29, of Hartford, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District...
By State Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY), the Committee’s Ranking Member, introduced the North Korea Sanctions Enforcement Act (H.R. 757), legislation that strengthens U.S. sanctions against North Korea. Similar legislation passed the House last year, but was not acted on by the Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - United States Attorney Booth Goodwin announced today that Terrance Wilson, 25, of Detroit, pleaded guilty to interstate travel in aid of drug trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Kelly R. Jackson, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI), and George L. Piro, Special Agent in Charge, FBI, Miami Field Office, announce that an indictment was unsealed today charging...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney Brendan V. Johnson announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Assault with Intent to Commit Murder, Use of a Firearm during a Crime of Violence, and Assault with a Dangerous Weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul. Jr. announced today that Elizabeth Afola Oyenekan, 42, of Nigeria, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with the improper use of another’s passport and making false statements. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 35-year-old Stroudsburg area man was sentenced to six years in prison by United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani for distributing crack cocaine in the Monroe County area in 2013.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 5, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK -A Transportation Security Administration employee has been indicted on child pornography charges. Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, announced that Raymond Kinney, age 54, of Jacksonville, a Transportation Security Inspector for the TSA, was indicted by a federal grand jury on February 4, 2015, on one count of distribution of child pornography.
