News from April 2016
By DOT News Wire | Apr 20, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on April 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: FMCSA Seeks Input on “Beyond Compliance” Program. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is seeking public input during the next 60 days on its Beyond Compliance program. The Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act requires FMCSA to implement a Beyond Compliance program ...
By State Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, members of the House of Representatives Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism sounded the alarm about a troubling surge in anti-Semitism on American college campuses. In a letter to the Secretary of Education, the Taskforce asked the Secretary about the Department’s planned response to the issue. Additionally, the co-chairs made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: A four-count indictment was filed in federal court charging a Puerto Rican man with assaulting federal officers and failing to register as a sex offender, as well as firearms offenses, law enforcement officials said.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: GARBERVILLE, Calif. - North coast residents and visitors are invited to learn about ongoing marine research in a lecture titled, "Changing Conditions in our Coastal Waters." Brian Tissot will be presenting Tuesday, May 17, at 7 p.m., at the Redwood Playhouse, 286 Sprowel Creek Rd., in Garberville.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in College Station, Texas, have found a way to use digital images taken in aerial surveys to identify regrowth cotton that may be harboring boll weevils.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: On Tuesday, the U.S. Senate unanimously approved two amendments offered by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to her broad, bipartisan energy bill. The first, to provide needed flexibility to the Alaska gasline project, passed the Senate by voice vote. The second, to add a resources title composed of 30 lands and water bills to the underlying bill, later passed by a roll call vote of 97 to 0.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Document Interfered with Immigrant’s Status in U.S.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a markup of an original bill to curb identity theft and tax refund fraud, and an additional bill to protect taxpayers...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Andrew A. Rooks (59, Jacksonville) to 48 months in federal prison for his role in two separate conspiracies to commit mail and wire fraud. The Court also entered a forfeiture judgment in the amount of $ 2,187,049. A separate restitution hearing is scheduled for July 5, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: In Waco today, 34-year-old Justin Neal Watson was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison after admitting to stealing money from the Government through the processing of fraudulent travel vouchers announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Special Agent in Charge Scott Wilk, U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command Southwestern Fraud Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Kansas City, Kan., man who was previously charged with kidnapping and robbing three women was indicted by a federal grand jury today and charged with additional crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: A Carterville resident was indicted on April 5, 2016, for a methamphetamine offense, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: “Thank you very much for having me today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: G.F. Peterman, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Bobby Leon Parrish, age 25, from Lizella, Georgia, entered a guilty plea on April 20, 2016, to assaulting a Federal law enforcement officer and using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence before the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge, in Macon, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that MITTESH DAS of Atlanta, Georgia, was indicted for intentionally causing damage to a U.S. Army computer program by transmitting malicious information, code, and command on a protected computer. DAS made his initial appearance in federal court today in the Northern District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Two Charleston men were sentenced today to federal prison for drug crimes, announced Acting United States Attorney Carol Casto. Leon Wilson, Jr., 43, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in federal prison for distribution of heroin. In a separate prosecution, Anton R. Courts, 40, was sentenced to a year and three months in federal prison for distribution of crack and heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A doctor with a medical practice in Randolph, New Jersey was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Kevin Joseph Fields, formerly of Somersworth, was sentenced to thirty months in prison, three years supervised release and restitution of $22,381.29 to be paid to the U.S. Postal Service after previously pleading guilty to Possessing Stolen Government Property With Intent To Convert.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 20, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Anastasia Grzeskowiak was sentenced to 51 months imprisonment for embezzling $2.9 million from the account of a disabled individual whose financial affairs she was entrusted with managing.
