News from August 2016
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: The Acadia National Park Advisory Commission will meet from 1-3 pm on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, in Moore Auditorium (65 Acadia Drive) at the Schoodic Education and Research Center in Winter Harbor.The meeting is open to the public and includes an opportunity for public comment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: A Cleveland attorney was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for accepting $20,000 in purported drug proceeds and agreeing to launder the money, said Carole Rendon, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A federal prison inmate pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of credit/debit card fraud and identity theft, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Marina Zuk pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 30, 2016
News Release: GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. - The Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area Advisory Council will meet on August 31 from 3-6 p.m. in Grand Junction to discuss council recommendations and implementation planning for the proposed Resource Management Plan.
By USDA Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has launched a new smartphone application ("app") that forecasts conditions triggering heat stress in cattle. The app is available at both Google Play and the App Store.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - The last of four Dallas individuals who were involved in the January 2015 takeover-style robbery of an AT&T store in Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced today, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-A Tulsa woman was sentenced today to serve 47 months in prison and pay restitution in the amount of $88,194.23 to the Internal Revenue Service for her role in a scheme to file and obtain refunds from at least 49 false income tax returns, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma and Special Agent in Charge Damon Rowe of the Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation’s Dallas field office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Sedalia, Mo., sex offender pleaded guilty in federal court today for possessing child pornography.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: Glen Jean, WV: New River Gorge National River fire managers plan to burn approximately 26 acres this fall in the "Carper Fields" area near Grandview in northeastern Raleigh County sometime between September 6 and October 15. The prescribed burn area is located in the park's south district, approximately...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: AUG 29 - PORTLAND, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Northern Maine Medical (NMMC), has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the United States in which it will pay $125,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the federal Controlled Substances Act (CSA).
By Homeland Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 On Aug. 18, the Department of Justice announced that the Bureau of Prisons will reduce and ultimately end its use of private prisons. On Friday, I directed our Homeland Security Advisory Council, chaired by Judge William Webster, to evaluate ...
By USDA Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C., Aug. 29, 2016 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today announced $18.9 million in renewal awards to build or improve agricultural and food science research facilities and equipment at historically black Land-Grant Colleges ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: A Newark, New Jersey, man pleaded guilty today to his role in a violent and long-running racketeering conspiracy perpetuated by the “South Side Cartel,” a set of the Bloods street gang based in Newark, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman of the District of New Jersey.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: An Arizona real estate developer was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for submitting false statements in his bankruptcy petition with the intent to conceal assets and property transfers from the bankruptcy trustee. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal ...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: A Miami Gardens, Florida, resident pleaded guilty today to multiple criminal charges in connection with a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and “cloning” their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: A former FBI special agent was sentenced today to 36 months in prison for stealing over $136,000 in drug proceeds seized during the execution of search warrants in 2014, falsifying documents and tampering with a witness.
By Fed Newswire | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced that it will seek a $1.2 million fine and a permanent ban on employment in the banking industry in an enforcement action against a foreign exchange (FX) trader who is alleged to have manipulated FX pricing benchmarks.
By Labor Gazette | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – At the U.S. Department of Labor headquarters in Washington today, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez renewed partnership agreements with embassy officials representing the governments of Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Peru and the Philippines. The renewals come as the department kicks ...
By Labor Gazette | Aug 29, 2016
News Release: ARLINGTON, Va. – Since October 2015, eight fatalities and more than 1,100 nonfatal accidents have occurred in the nation’s coal mines, resulting in restricted duty, missed days at work, and permanent disabilities for the miners who worked there. While injury rates have been fairly consistent during this time period, records indicate a trend in accidents resulting in more serious injuries. The circumstances in at least 30 of the accidents might have led to fatalities.
