News from December 2016
By DOT News Wire | Dec 13, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Dec. 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced the release of a new resource for communities, cities, regions and states to train emerging transportation leaders: the Every Place Counts Leadership Academy Transportation Toolkit. The Toolkit has been prepared as part of a complete package of user-friendly, educational materials that are downloadable and free for any individual or organization to use.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Agency releases results from its 2014 Drug and Alcohol Testing Survey
By DOT News Wire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The reporting carriers posted an on-time arrival rate of 85.5 percent in October 2016, equal to the 85.5 percent mark in September 2016, but slightly down from the 87.0 percent on-time rate in October 2015, according to the Air Travel Consumer Report (ATCR) released today.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON—Citing an enormous potential to reduce crashes on U.S. roadways, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a proposed rule today that would advance the deployment of connected vehicle technologies throughout the U.S. light vehicle fleet. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking would enable vehicle-to-vehicle ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Two more Albuquerque residents pled guilty today in federal court to violating federal drug trafficking and firearms laws. Mike Jensen, 33, pled guilty to violating federal firearms laws, and Bernadette Aurora Tapia (Tapia), 48, pled guilty to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Tony Peebles, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence, and RICO conspiracy, was sentenced to 295 months imprisonment by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -On Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, will convene a forum for Members of Congress and the public to hear from top ethics experts across the political spectrum about the unprecedented conflicts of interest currently facing President-Elect Donald Trump and his incoming Administration.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on this morning’s news of a 176,000-gallon oil spill from a ruptured pipeline in North Dakota. The spill occurred just 150 miles from the site of the water protector demonstrations against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which Grijalva visited in September and highlighted in a Sept. 20 roundtable on Capitol Hill.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: TYLER, Texas - Elite Lab Services, LLC, along with its husband-and-wife owners Gerard and Suzanne Dengler, will pay the United States $3.75 million after billing Medicare for tens of thousands of miles that were never driven by Elite Lab’s personnel, announced Acting United States Attorney Brit Featherston.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A drug distribution network that caused large amounts of heroin to be transported from Baltimore to Berkeley County has been dismantled after the federal indictment of eighteen people, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Edward J. Tutunjian, who has owned and operated Boston Cab through his company, EJT Management, Inc., for more than four decades, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for payroll tax evasion, employing illegal aliens and for failing to pay overtime wages.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announced today that physician Lynn E. Madsen, M.D., of Townshend, Vermont, has paid $76,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that she violated the federal False Claims Act, 31 U.S.C. § 3729, by knowingly presenting, or causing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An internal medicine doctor practicing in Staten Island, New York, was charged today with accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Twenty individuals were charged today in connection with trafficking heroin, Fentanyl and cocaine from Mexico and the Dominican Republic to Massachusetts and Rhode Island. In a series of arrests and searches conducted early this morning, approximately 8 kilograms of heroin, a number of firearms...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - As part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan to cut carbon pollution and create clean energy jobs, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced new steps with Western states to encourage the development of renewable power, efficiently deliver that electricity to market, and meet growing consumer demands for clean energy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: OXFORD - Stephen Richard Lightman, 34, of Olive Branch, Mississippi, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Neal B. Biggers, Jr., in Oxford, Mississippi on Dec. 12, 2016, to serve 360 months in prison for production of child pornography, and 240 months in prison for distribution of child pornography. Lightman will serve the two sentences consecutively, totaling 50 years in prison.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following the passage of the preclearance bill last week. This bill allows travelers to pass through U.S. Customs and Border Protection inspections prior to traveling,...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On Dec. 12, 2016, Manuel Espinozaheather Jean Reekr, a 33 year-old resident of Pico Rivera, California, was sentenced by Senior United States District Court Judge James E. Gritzner to 240 months of imprisonment for Conspiring to Distribute Methamphetamine, and to 120 months of...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 13, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Tolomah Foy, 23, of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, made his initial appearance on Dec. 12, 2016, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ruth Miller after being charged with possession with intent to distribute approximately 29 grams of crack cocaine, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Miller released Foy on a $10,000 unsecured bond and set Foy’s preliminary hearing for Dec. 14, 2016.
