News from August 2016
By DOT News Wire | Aug 11, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on Aug. 11, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) reported today that U.S. airlines’ systemwide (domestic and international) scheduled service load factor – a measure of the use of airline capacity – remained unchanged at 83.4 percent in May, seasonally adjusted, from April. Seasonal adjustment allows the comparing of monthly load factors to all other months.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced the launch of its new safety-focused campaign, “Our Roads, Our Responsibility ,” to raise public awareness about how to operate safely around large trucks and buses, or commercial motor vehicles (CMVs).
By DOT News Wire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today issued the Public Transportation Safety Program final rule that establishes procedural rules for FTA to administer a comprehensive safety program to improve the safety of federally-funded public transportation ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that LEJEUNE HARRIS, age 43, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to one count of conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, one count of possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more heroin, and one count of attempted possession with intent to distribute 100 grams or more heroin.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park will host a Naturalization Program on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2016 beginning at 11:00 a.m. in the Lower Town area. In partnership with the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: 10,293 Plants Seized in Trinity County.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Antonio Darset King, Sr., 47, of Phenix City, Alabama was sentenced today to 25 years in prison following his conviction on federal gun and drug charges, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, New Hampshire - United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced that Alkis Nakos, 37, of Manchester was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after a jury convicted him on drug conspiracy and continuing criminal enterprise charges last August. The sentence was the statutory mandatory minimum applicable to Nakos.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A federal grand jury in Providence today returned a 25-count indictment charging Robert Wilkins, 25, and Christian M. Domenech, 23, of West Warwick, with trafficking heroin, cocaine and crack cocaine, and with bank fraud, announced United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha; Harold H. Shaw, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston Division; and Colonel Steven G. O’Donnell, Superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police.
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, today released the following statement on the Department of Health and Human Services transferring funding to avoid a halt in the Zika vaccine development process.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KYLE VALENTINE, 25, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert A. Richardson in Hartford to a federal carjacking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a lawsuit alleging that New Mexico State University and its Board of Regents (NMSU) discriminated against a female former assistant track coach on the basis of sex by paying her less than similarly-situated men in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: DENVER -Bob Troyer became Acting U.S. Attorney at 12:01 a.m. this morning, following the departure of U.S. Attorney John Walsh. Bob served in the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office from 1999 to 2004 as a drug and violent-crime prosecutor. For six years after that he worked as a partner in the Denver office...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 58-year-old man who conspired to evade more than $3.3 million in federal fuel excise taxes has been ordered to federal prison after eight years on the run, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge Rick Goss of IRS-Criminal Investigation (CI) and Special Agent in Charge Christopher Brooks of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) criminal enforcement program.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the arrest and unsealing of a complaint charging NICHOLAS MITSAKOS with securities and wire fraud in connection with a scheme to induce investments in a hedge fund by misrepresenting the fund’s performance and...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A North Las Vegas man with a violent criminal history who robbed a Las Vegas convenience store and gas station with a long-barreled shotgun in the summer of 2011, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Andrew P. Gordon to 30 years in prison, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announced that Christopher Loomis, age 26, of Colchester, Vermont, was indicted on Aug. 11, 2016 by a federal grand jury for possession of child pornography involving minors under the age of 12. Loomis is scheduled to be arraigned on Aug. 25, 2016 in federal court in Burlington.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Pedro man who responded to an Internet advertisement to have sex with a young girl and sent a photograph of his genitals has pleaded guilty to a federal obscenity charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 11, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of a New Orleans company that defrauded Medicare of more than $3.3 million was sentenced today to 80 months in prison for directing the scheme.
