News from December 2016
By Commerce News Now | Dec 14, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a nine page rule on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 14, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a six page rule on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Agriculture Department published a four page proposed rule on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page proposed rule on Dec. 14, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Decision is subject to conditions that will protect competition and consumers
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) today fined American Airlines $1.6 million for violating the Department’s rule prohibiting long tarmac delays. The airline was ordered to cease and desist from future similar violations. This fine represents the highest amount assessed against an airline for violating the tarmac delay rule, matching a similar $1.6 million fine assessed against Southwest Airlines in 2015.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued an interim final rule (IFR) that revises the Federal pipeline safety regulations to address safety issues related to downhole facilities, including well integrity, wellbore ...
By DOT News Wire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is pulling out all of the stops to deter motorists from driving drunk this holiday season. To spread this urgent safety message, NHTSA is kicking-off its annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign and is working to end drunk driving on U.S. roads altogether through innovative technology called the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been sentenced in federal court to imprisoned for a total term of one day, three years supervised release and restitution in the amount of $63,752.73 on his conviction of access device fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Toms River, New Jersey, woman was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for filing false tax returns and using her accounting business to cheat her clients out of their tax refunds, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Illegal Aliens Crossed the St. Lawrence River on Homemade Raft.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Rep. Peter DeFazio, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Government Operations, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A federally licensed firearms dealer from Parsons, Kan., was sentenced Wednesday to six months in prison followed by a year on probation for knowingly selling a firearm to a convicted felon, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found a Dudley contract packager failed to inform the agency as required that a temporary worker needed hospitalization after he sustained a serious injury on May 26, 2016. Even worse, the employer failed to contact emergency medical services immediately when the injury occurred.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Dec. 13, 2016, Jonathan S. Featherstone, a 23 year-old resident of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey, to 33 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for Possession of a Firearm by a Prohibited Person, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX- Yesterday, Taylor Nardo Paya, 20, a member of the Havasupai Tribe, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Douglas L. Rayes to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. Paya had previously pleaded guilty to robbery.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas - Bureau of Land Management fire managers are anticipating favorable weather conditions for pile burning on BLM-administered lands along the Muddy River, approximately 5.5 miles northwest of Moapa.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Kansas City, Mo., physician was indicted by a federal grand jury today on charges related to child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Ivan Brazier, 40, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Robert Miller, Jr. for kidnapping and extortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 14, 2016
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - John E. Fox, the former owner of Premier Cru, a now-bankrupt wine shop based in Berkeley, has been sentence to 78 months in prison for wire fraud, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett. The sentence follows a guilty plea entered Aug. 11, 2016, in which Fox admitted to using his wine shop to run a multi-million-dollar wine Ponzi scheme.
