News from December 2016
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: BOULDER CITY, Nevada - The Bureau of Reclamation announced today that it has awarded a $6.82 million contract to Andritz Hydro Corp. of Charlotte, North Carolina, for the modernization and overhaul of the last three original pressure relief valves at Hoover Dam.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: DENVER - An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found that BNSF Railway Company violated federal law when it terminated a track inspector for insubordination after the employee reported railroad track defects to management.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Jackson, TN - The first of 16 alleged Gangster Disciples indicted on racketeering charges in May 2016 has pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Settlement Provides $9 Million to Ensure Equal Lending Services to African-American Communities in Ohio and Indiana.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota announced the sentencing of DAVID BLAINE WELLIVER, 56, to five years in prison for defrauding investors in the Dblaine Fund of $1.725 million. WELLIVER pleaded guilty on July 13, 2016, to one count of securities fraud. He was sentenced today before Senior U.S. District Judge Paul A. Magnuson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has reached an agreement with the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) to ensure that driver licensing services in the state will be available to all residents, regardless of race, color or national origin, in compliance with Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Jackson, TN - The first of 16 alleged Gangster Disciples indicted on racketeering charges in May 2016 has pleaded guilty to RICO conspiracy. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty plea today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released an Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for Shasta River Water Association’s Irrigation Water Measurement and Billing Accounting System Project.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health Dr. David Michaels has appointed Kelly Knighton as the new administrator of the agency's Dallas regional office. She will oversee enforcement and compliance assistance efforts to protect worker safety and health in Arkansas, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Louisiana Resident Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Defraud the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Advanced C4 Solutions, Inc. agreed today to pay $4.535 million to the United States to settle allegations that it submitted inflated invoices to the government for work performed at Joint Base Andrews.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: News Release on Re-Initiating Murder Investigation.
By DOE Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: The electricity sector is in the midst of unprecedented change, driven by rapidly evolving technology, changing customers demands, and new business opportunities. A new white paper entitled Energizing Policy Evolution for the Grid Revolution examines the landscape of new technologies that may disrupt...
By DOL Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: MARATHON, Wis. - Federal safety inspectors found multiple woodworking machines at a Wisconsin lumber company lacked adequate safeguards and that workers were not properly trained in isolating energy to machines to prevent contact with operating parts during set-up, servicing and maintenance.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A man wanted in his home country of El Salvador for aggravated homicide and criminal association was removed from the U.S. Friday by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Federal authorities arrested Ray Alexander Barr, a prison employee at the Central Texas Detention Facility - GEO (GEO), yesterday afternoon for allegedly attempting to provide contraband to an inmate inside the federal detention facility announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - United Shore Financial Services LLC (USFS) has agreed to pay the United States $48 million to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting mortgage loans insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) that did not meet applicable requirements, the Justice Department announced today. USFS is headquartered in Troy, Michigan.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Release Date: Dec. 27, 2016. Contact: Kina-Doreen G. Lewis, Pacific Historic Parks Education Coordinator. Phone: 671-477-7278 Ext 1017. Paint in the Park at War in the Pacific National Historical Park. Make a mark in your park during our artist led painting sessions! Come and embrace your creativity...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: The Pinedale Anticline Project Office (PAPO) will accept applications for potential 2017 funding until Feb. 1, 2017. This is a change from previous years that will allow applicants more time to submit a project for potential funding.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) praised President Obama for taking another pivotal step in cementing his environmental legacy by establishing two new national monuments that will protect Native American lands, as well as critical environmental, historical and cultural resources.
