News from December 2016
By DOL Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: NEW PHILADELPHIA, Ohio - The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has proposed penalties of $274,934 to a New Philadelphia plastics manufacturer after its investigation of a second debilitating injury suffered by an employee in less than 18 months.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated that Joel Joyce (a.k.a. “Prince"), 27, of Brooklyn, New York was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine base and heroin by a federal jury sitting in Rutland on Dec. 23, 2016. The jury also convicted Joyce of possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted two Atlanta women on federal charges related to an interstate counterfeit credit card scheme, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and U.S. Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Michael Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: SAN JOSE - Bay Sleep Clinic, its related businesses- Qualium Corporation and Amerimed Corporation-and their owners and operators, Anooshiravan Mostowfipour and Tara Nader (collectively, the Defendants) have agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle allegations that they fraudulently billed the Medicare program...
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, President Obama used the Antiquities Act to unilaterally declare Bears Ears National Monument in Utah and Gold Butte National Monument in Nevada. President Obama has abused the Antiquities Act to designate more national monuments and lock away more acreage than any other U.S. President in history. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) issued the following statement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Ohio-Based Banks to Resolve Allegations of Lending Discrimination.
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 Commerce Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: DEC. 28, 2016 - As our nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the U.S. population will be 324,310,011 on Jan. 1, 2017. This represents an increase of 2,245,347, or 0.70 percent, from New Year’s Day 2016. Since Census Day (April 1) 2010, the population has grown by 15,564,473, or 5.04 percent.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: DEC 28 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and Emily Gray Rice, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, announced that Luis Martin Carvajal Gonzalez, also known as Wilfredo Laboy, pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl and heroin, as well as possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Las Vegas - The Bureau of Land Management is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and/or conviction of the person or people responsible for causing significant damage to the Red Rock Canyon sign on Highway 159 on December 17.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Robbery of Loomis Guard at Plymouth Meeting Mall Last Week.
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 DOE Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Today, the Energy Department (DOE) announced the selection of six projects for up to $12.9 million in federal funding, entitled, “Project Definition for Pilot- and Demonstration-Scale Manufacturing of Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biopower." These projects, required to share the cost at a minimum of 50%...
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: DOLORES, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Anasazi Heritage Center will be closed Jan. 1-2 in celebration of New Year’s.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan B. Jarvis today signed Director’s Order #21 on Donations and Philanthropic Partnerships. The Director’s Order updates internal NPS policy on engagement in public-private partnerships and the appropriate acceptance of support from the private sector to better align the bureau with current best practices in philanthropy.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS, Mont. -- The Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District has signed an Excess Capacity Master Storage Contract with the Bureau of Reclamation, culminating an effort that began in 1998.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Emily Gray Rice, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, announced today that Luis Martin Carvajal Gonzalez, also known as Wilfredo Laboy, pleaded guilty to distributing fentanyl and heroin, as well as possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU -U.S. Attorney Florence T. Nakakuni announced today that the District of Hawaii collected over $3.9 million in criminal and civil actions in Fiscal Year 2016. Of this amount, approximately $3.6 million was collected in criminal actions and approximately $300,000 was collected in civil actions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 28, 2016
News Release: Learn More About Cyber Threats Facing Local Businesses.
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.
