News from March 2015
By DOT News Wire | Mar 17, 2015
The US Transportation Department published a five page proposed rule on March 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Mar 17, 2015
The US Commerce Department published a one page proposed rule on March 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced a new Smartphone app that will allow for more convenient access to currently available online safety performance information for interstate truck and bus companies.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: The NOAA-led Arctic marine corridor project will work with the Coast Guard to asses the safety of a potential Arctic shipping route from Unimak Island, the largest of the Aleutian Islands, through the Bering Strait to the Chukchi Sea, as proposed in the USCG Port Access Route Study for the region. The Coast Guard will continue to take public comments prior to making a final decision on the proposed route.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A career criminal from Georgia was sentenced today to 30 years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, by Senior District Judge Thomas B. Russell, for multiple robberies, including brandishing a firearm announced Acting United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Jennifer Paonessa, 33, of Niagara Falls, NY, who was convicted of obstruction of the mails, was fined $250.00 by U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - Jose Urbano Cortinas, 29, has been ordered to prison for nearly 23 years following his conviction of conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute cocaine, announced Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Cortinas, of Memphis, Tenn., entered a guilty plea to the charge Oct. 29, 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: PIKEVILLE - Three members of a Floyd County family admitted in federal court that they attempted to defraud insurance companies out of thousands of dollars.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statements in response to a provision in the House Republican budget resolution that would make it significantly more difficult for Congress to prevent a 20 percent cut to Social Security benefits, should...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), today held a hearing to learn how Congress can strengthen America’s higher education system. Witnesses and members discussed reforms the will help ensure more students have the opportunity to complete an advanced, quality education without absorbing unmanageable debt.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Celot Jay Carr, Jr., 38, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for failure to update his sex offender registration after relocating to West Virginia, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Michael J. Moore, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced today that Arthur Gerald Reid, 28, of Macon, Georgia, was sentenced on March 17, 2015 to serve 30 years (360 months) in federal prison for sex trafficking of children. The sentence was handed down by the Honorable Hugh Lawson, Senior United States District Court Judge, in Macon, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Victim Has Intellectual Disability. WASHINGTON - George Cocroft, 38, of Washington, D.C., was found guilty today of first-degree sexual abuse, with aggravating circumstances, for sexually assaulting a woman in an alley in Northwest Washington, U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. announced. Cocroft was...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man today admitted soliciting a female minor to produce sexually explicit images and using Craigslist to advertise sexual encounters with the minor, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Defendant, A Former Avionics Specialist, Travelled From Egypt To Turkey In An Attempt To Cross The Border To Syria To Join ISIL.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Good morning, Dr. Danielson, Dr. Orr, Secretary Smith and Hoffman, Mr. Kotek, we are so glad to have you all here today. Thank you all for being here today to present your 2016 program requests.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Federal Weapon Possession Charge. CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE - Myron Armstrong, 38, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution in Berlin, New Hampshire, was sentenced on Monday in United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire to two years in prison for federal weapon possession charges...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: A Pompano Beach, Florida, resident was charged by Information yesterday in Fort Lauderdale with possessing and passing counterfeit currency.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: Defendant Faces Up To 10 Additional Years In Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 17, 2015
News Release: HOUSTON - Nicole Dette Perkins has entered a guilty plea to one count of knowingly presenting a material false, fictitious or fraudulent claim against the United States in the nature of a false U.S. Individual Income Tax Return, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Lucy Cruz, special agent in charge of IRS - Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI).
