News from September 2015
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Sept. 30, 2015 BOS 2015-183. HARTFORD, Conn. - AmeriGas Propane LP employees at the Southington terminal regularly transfer flammable, liquefied petroleum gas from railcars into 30,000- and 60,000-gallon storage tanks. Once filled, tanker trucks transport the gas elsewhere. An inspection by the Hartford...
By State Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC- Representative Eliot L. Engel, the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following statement at a Committee hearing on defining cyber war, and U.S. foreign policy and deterrence implications...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas M. DiGirolamo convicted Earl Howard Teeter, Jr., age 73, of Hyattsville, Maryland today of operating a vehicle without due care, after Teeter pleaded guilty to failing to stop after driving a vehicle involved in an accident resulting in death. Both charges were in connection with a Feb. 1, 2015 fatal hit and run crash that took place on the Baltimore Washington Parkway.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Dilip Patel, age 49, of Wilmington, Delaware pleaded guilty today to wire fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Justice Department Files Lawsuit Alleging Disability-Based Discrimination by Developers of 71 Apartment Complexes in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Project Safe Childhood. SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Liberal, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet. Timothy Curless, 53, of Liberal, pleaded...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Defendant Worked as IT Engineer for Dallas-Headquartered Law Firm.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) is asking the public to comment on its plans for future relocation of the Bayside Picnic and Parking Area, located in the Maryland district of Assateague Island National Seashore. Comments will be accepted for the next 60 days, and the plan, called an Environmental Assessment (EA), is available at the NPS Planning, Environment, and Public Comment (PEPC) website at.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALFRED COBBINS, age 23, and SHAWN GRACIN, age 22, both residents of New Orleans, were sentenced today for their participation in a drug conspiracy and a conspiracy to possess and use firearms in connection with the drug trafficking activities of a local gang known as the “Young Melph Mafia" or “YMM.".
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced that DANIEL GARCIA, age 38, was sentenced today by Senior United States District Court Judge James J. Brady to 6 months in federal prison and 6 months in a halfway house. GARCIA was also ordered to pay $900,000 in restitution to the State of Louisiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: SEATTLE - -Residents of the Pacific (PNW) responded overwhelmingly to the most recent DEA National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. On September 26th, 2015, in a four hour period, residents of Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska combined, turned in a record breaking 33,919 (17 tons) of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at the 171 take-back sites.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: A former police officer, also a disbarred Iowa attorney, who sold counterfeit currency to an undercover agent in February of this year, pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Employers' names: Jose Miguel Charles, doing business as Pirul Trim Service, was the subcontractor and employer; and Blazer Building Inc. was the general contractor at an apartment construction site in New Braunfels, Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - The Justice Department today filed a lawsuit against the City of Des Plaines, alleging that the northwest suburb violated federal law when it refused to allow an Islamic group to operate a place of worship in a vacant office building.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: DALLAS - A Dallas woman who was convicted at trial earlier this year on felony offenses stemming from the filing of false bankruptcy documents, was sentenced yesterday, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Results from the Drug Enforcement Administration’s 10th National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day this past Saturday demonstrate the public’s continued appreciation and need for the opportunity to discard unwanted, unused and expired prescription drugs.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALMA DE JESUS MOJICA HERRERA, age 51, and LEONARDO SERRATO POLANIA, age 41, both residents of Bogota, Colombia, were arrested and charged in a federal complaint with attempting to sell a fictitious U.S. Bearer Bond.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Sept. 30, 2015 BOS 2015-181. Date of action: Sept. 16, 2015. Type of action: Decision and Order. Name of defendant: Masonry Services Inc. dba MSI / North Eastern Precast LLC. Background: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited the two employers in June 2013...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - American higher education is afflicted with systemic barriers to being more productive, witnesses told members of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday. The federal government has played a role in building those barriers, witnesses testified.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 30, 2015
News Release: Four Miami-Dade residents were sentenced to terms of imprisonment for their participation in a fraud conspiracy that involved the unauthorized use of credit card numbers that had been skimmed at local establishments.
