News from August 2016
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Aug. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Aug. 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: The Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI), which is based on the amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry, rose 0.6 percent in June from May, rising for the third consecutive month, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics’ (BTS). The June 2016 index level (122.3) was 29.1 percent above the April 2009 low during the most recent recession.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), in coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), today announced a final rule amending the Hazardous Materials Regulations to codify certain requirements of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act of 2015 (FAST Act) related to the safe transportation of flammable liquids by rail.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Living History Activities, vintage cars and a spelling bee make for a fun-filled Labor Day weekend at Homestead National Monument of America! The event will kick off on Saturday, Sept. 3, 2016 from 10 am -4 pm with visitors getting to see living history and try their hand at homesteading skills at the Homestead Heritage and Education Centers.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today strongly urged the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to provide Alaskans with sufficient time to review and challenge its “Proposed Regional Management Plan/Final Environmental Impact Statement" (RMP/EIS or proposed Plan) for the Eastern Interior Planning Area of Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Alleged to have swindled friends and acquaintances out of nearly $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: GREENVILLE - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that today in federal court, Senior United States District Judge Malcolm J. Howard sentenced DONTRELL KHALI MCDONALD, 24, of Smithfield, North Carolina to 30 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - A Hurricane man was sentenced today to a total of nine years in federal prison: seven years for a federal arson crime followed by a consecutive sentence of two years for an unrelated federal witness tampering crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Jimmie Arnold Harper...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Identity Document Supplier Pleads Guilty for Role in Identity Trafficking Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA - A Roanoke man, who came to be in possession of firearms stolen from a local home last summer, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Lynchburg, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - Raleigh attorney Joseph Lee Levinson was sentenced on August 9, 2016, for conspiracy to make false statements to federally insured financial institutions, announced Ripley Rand, United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Stoneham businessman was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with under-reporting more than $800,000 in gross receipts.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, Thomas Torre, the former Chief Financial Officer of Metro Fuel Oil Corp., was sentenced to 20 months’ imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and ordered to forfeit $800,000 in criminal proceeds. On May 20, 2015, Torre pled guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud by overstating...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Hawaiian Concert Series, Cultural Festival and Bioblitz are Friday & Saturday, August 26-27.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger yesterday announced the sentencing of LOUIS LEE FRASIER BANKS, 26, a leader of a known Minneapolis gang, the Taliban/Young N’ Thuggin (YNT) gang. On March 4, 2015, BANKS was charged in a seven-defendant indictment with conspiracy to distribute cocaine base (crack)...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Donnetto Deantoni, 44, of St. Michael, Minnesota, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for his role in a $12.9 million software piracy scheme. Deantoni was also ordered to forfeit over $4.4 million in proceeds and to pay the victim, Autodesk, Inc., over $12.9 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Two men were arraigned today on charges that they conspired to steal $2.5 million that they had agreed to maintain in a bank account, but quickly spent instead.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Brian Nelson Halsey, age 52, of Westminster, Maryland, formerly of Dundalk, Maryland, pleaded guilty today to interstate transportation of stolen goods in connection with a scheme to sell property stolen from shopping mall kiosks online.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 10, 2016
News Release: New Dedicated Civil Rights Assistant US Attorney Position.
