News from December 2016
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
The US Interior Department published a four page notice on Dec. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: DOT Fines Frontier Airlines for Violating Full-Fare Advertising Rule. The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has fined Frontier Airlines $60,000 for violating the Department’s full-fare advertising rule and ordered the carrier to cease and desist from further violations. In September 2015, Frontier ...

By DOT News Wire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today issued Special Directive 17-1 to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) requiring the transit agency to complete 47 actions to correct deficiencies in its traction power electrification ...

By DOT News Wire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration issued an amended order today to continue the acceleration of recall repairs for millions of U.S. vehicle owners affected by the Takata air bag inflator recalls. The Amended Coordinated Remedy Order sets ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Richard A. Lazarra today sentenced Altius Willix (48, Winter Haven) to life in federal prison for conspiracy, attempted possession of methamphetamine, and assaulting federal officers. A federal jury found him guilty on August 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced today that a Wheatland, Mo., man has been sentenced in federal court for illegally possessing two machine guns.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that REYNALDO BRAN FONSECA, age 35, was charged today in a three-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien and possession of firearms by an illegal alien in violation of Title 8, United States Code, Section 1326(a) and Title 18, United States Code 922(g)(5)(A), respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - Michael P. Klekamp, 67, of Charlottesville, pleaded guilty today to charges of bank fraud that resulted in a $10.5 million loss to Fauquier Bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Koissy Thomas Kemmeth, 52, of New York, New York, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and making a false, fictitious and fraudulent claim against the United States. Kemmeth was also sentenced to three years of supervised release, and ordered to forfeit $37,000 and pay $105,000 in restitution.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Thursday, after a three-day trial, a federal jury found Antonio Nicholas Smith, 26, of Stockton, guilty of unlawfully possessing a firearm as a felon, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. The trial was held before U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Raymond Carter, 73 of Rancho Cordova, Calif., was sentenced today to 80 months in prison on a charge of traveling interstate to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips, Paul M. Abbate, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office, and Peter Newsham, Interim Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Arthur Hugh Stephen Knox, 58, of Canada, who was convicted of attempted unlawful reentry into the Untied States, was sentenced to time served (three months) by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Raymond Castillo, 27, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced yesterday in federal court to 18 years in prison for violating the Hobbs Act by participating in the armed robbery of a Walmart store in Albuquerque in Oct. 2014. Castillo will be on supervised release for three years after completing his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Eighteen individuals have been charged in 13 indictments for their role in a large-scale health care fraud and prescription pill distribution scheme, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today. The separate, but related, indictments, returned Tuesday and unsealed today, charge...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Michael Wilson, 29, formerly of Hamburg, NY, was successfully returned from Vietnam and arraigned this afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 9, 2016
News Release: Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey D. Hill (619) 546-7924.