News from August 2016
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - Ongoing attention to the Colorado River emphasizes its crucial role as the “lifeblood" that sustains millions of Americans across dozens of cities and countless farms in the American West. For the seven states that comprise the Colorado River Basin-Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - U.S. Attorney John Horn announced the creation of a Civil Rights Unit within the office’s Civil Division to enhance the investigation and resolution of civil rights matters within the Northern District of Georgia. Horn made the announcement on July 28, 2016, during a forum and listening session with leaders from LGBT advocacy groups, houses of worship, local law enforcement and nonprofit organizations at the Phillip Rush Center in Atlanta.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: Dear Secretary King: In negotiating the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) with our colleagues, we fought to preserve the Department of Education’s (Department) full regulatory authority to promulgate rules and issue guidance. We applaud the Department’s notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on 34 CFR...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling nearly $5.3 million from her employer.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: EL DORADO HILLS, Calif. - Faced with thousands of acres of dead trees that have contributed to devastating wildfires in the Sierras, the Bureau of Land Management has formed a team to determine how to manage the dead trees to minimize wildfire risk and protect the public.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: View Citations here. To ask questions, obtain compliance assistance, file a complaint, or report amputations, eye loss, workplace hospitalizations, fatalities or situations posing imminent danger to workers, the public should call OSHA's toll-free hotline at 800-321-OSHA (6742) or the agency's Calumet...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today Antonio Eldridge, 28, of Buffalo, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara to being a felon in possession of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Tyson Fresh Meats Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: More Than 150,000 Press Releases Stolen from Three Major Newswire Companies Used to Generate Approximately $30 Million in Illegal Trading Profits.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Gregory Obendorf, 61, of Parma, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 15 days in jail and a $40,000 fine for conspiracy to bait migratory birds and placing bait for migratory birds, both in violation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Obendorf was found guilty...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: ANCHORAGE- Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA) entitlement for Noatak. Noatak is one of ten villages that merged with NANA. With this patent, all ten have received the lands they are entitled to under ANSCA.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County, New Jersey, woman today admitted embezzling more than $600,000 from dormant TD Bank customer accounts, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Labor is challenging inventors and entrepreneurs to help develop a technological solution to workplace noise exposure and related hearing loss.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ----- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that a Federal Grand Jury, returned Indictments against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County, New Jersey, woman today admitted embezzling more than $600,000 from dormant TD Bank customer accounts, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former Whitman Police Sergeant was arrested today and charged in connetion with misappropriating funds from the accounts of disabled veterans while he was a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs-appointed fiduciary and for preparing false income tax returns for clients of his tax preparation business.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: Both defrauded crop insurance companies of more than $1 million each.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Diego Rodriguez, the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today that FADI EWIESS, a/k/a “Fadi Awise," was arrested Saturday morning on wire...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rosebud, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 2, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Lee’s Summit, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling nearly $5.3 million from her employer.
