News from August 2016
By DOE Gazette | Aug 17, 2016
The US Energy Department published a two page notice on Aug. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – Airline consumer complaints filed with DOT’s Aviation Consumer Protection Division during the first six months of this year were down 12.2 percent from the first six months of 2015, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report released today.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Updated railroad-by-railroad and industry data on progress toward implementation released
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: BECKLEY, W.Va. - An inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Beckley pleaded guilty today to possessing a weapon in prison, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Larry Antoine Smith, 49, entered his guilty plea to possession of a weapon by an inmate of the institution. Smith admitted...
By Commerce Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today called on Peru to take additional measures to combat illegally harvested and traded timber, following a new report on continuing shortcomings in Peru’s efforts to enforce its own forestry laws. Wyden requested the report earlier this year.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-Gary Edward Hibbing, a former insurance agent and owner of Grand Lake Investments and Insurance in Grove, Oklahoma, was sentenced to serve 27 months in prison for implementing a fraudulent scheme that caused his clients to lose $505,126, announced United States Attorney Danny C. Williams...
By Interior Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: SILT, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management expects work to begin this week on a 270-acre wildlife habitat improvement project south of New Castle on Center Mountain. Work will continue into September.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Buffalo, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Efrain Hildalgo, AKA Cheko, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy and discharging a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime, was sentenced to 330 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Lake Charles man in federal prison custody pleaded guilty last week to federal escape charges after failing to report to a halfway house according to terms of home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana announced that MICHEGEL BUTLER, age 41, a resident of LaPlace, Louisiana, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a conspiracy to defraud the Gulf Coast Claims Facility (“GCCF") in the aftermath of the BP oil spill.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: SIOUX FALLS - A Child Sexual Abuse Conference will be held Thursday, Aug. 18 and Friday, Aug. 19 at the Sioux Falls Convention Center in Ballrooms A and B. This event is sponsored by Avera, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of South Dakota, and Children’s Home Society.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Charles Robert Poore has been sentenced in federal court to 24 months imprisonment, followed by five years supervised release, on his conviction of embezzlement by an officer of a credit institution. Poore was also ordered to pay $251,438.08 in restitution, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: AUG 17 - BOSTON - A Dominican man residing in Lawrence pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a heroin, cocaine and trafficking organization with ties to Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Carl Junction, Mo., man who was a prior sex offender was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and distributing child pornography over the Internet.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Mark Wayne Bush, 51, of Gilbertown, Alabama, was sentenced today to 6 months of imprisonment by Senior U.S. District Judge Callie V. S. Granade for conspiring to transport stolen oil from Clarke County, Alabama...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Pamela Minor-Chiles, 47, of Chesterfield, Virginia, pled guilty today to a criminal information charging her with bank fraud stemming from her misappropriation of approximately $200,000 from a medical practice. She was indicted on June 21, 2016 on 27 counts of bank fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Employer name: U.S. Postal Service LLC, doing business as Silver Spring MPO Carr Annex Hotel
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE, Calif. - Edgardo Reyes was sentenced to 154 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge John J. Martin.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, Sandy Winick, a Canadian citizen who was extradited from Thailand, was sentenced at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, New York, to 78 months in prison following his July 2015 guilty plea to conspiring to commit wire fraud for running an international advance fee scheme. The sentencing...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 17, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Nicholas Davis, a/k/a Holiday, a/k/a Hollywood, 34, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 210 months in prison and 10 years supervised release by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.
