News from December 2016
By DOT News Wire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Community input included on final route – community garden preserved, ADA-compliant, West Baltimore MARC station included
By DOT News Wire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – Thanks, in part to the temporary, direct and robust safety oversight of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority (WMATA) Metrorail system by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA), WMATA is implementing needed safety changes, but it must do more, FTA Executive Director Matthew Welbes today told a U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform panel.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today announced a final rule that establishes a national drug and alcohol clearinghouse for commercial truck and bus drivers. The clearinghouse database will serve as a central repository containing records of violations of FMCSA’s drug and alcohol testing program by commercial driver’s license (CDL) holders.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - A 31-year-old legal permanent resident from Nigeria and his 30-year-old Houston girlfriend have entered guilty pleas in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme after four days of trial and hearing the testimony of 21 witnesses, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By State Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after the House Republican Conference ratified the GOP Steering Committee’s recommendation that he serve as chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the 115th Congress...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Failed to follow safety regulations when demolishing facilities containing asbestos.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - De’Janay Noldon was indicted for a scheme to defraud three elderly victims of more than $30,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Alexander Robert Xavier, 52, of Boca Raton, Florida, was sentenced to twelve-and-a-half years in prison. Previously, a jury found Xavier guilty of defrauding federal agencies by issuing worthless bonds to insure government construction projects. U.S. District Judge Kenneth A. Marra imposed the sentence and ordered Xavier to pay over $4 million in restitution to the victims of the fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: A man who sexually exploited a child, distributed child pornography, and received child pornography was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Ariel Monet-Viola Long, 22, of Burke, was sentenced today to 138 months in prison for robbery and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: DENVER - Damion Shata Morgan, age 23, of Pueblo, was sentenced this week by U.S. District Court Judge R. Brooke Jackson to serve 28 months for his role as a lookout during the robbery of RJC Firearms in Pueblo, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer and ATF Denver Division Acting Special Agent in Charge Ron Humphries announced. Two other defendants were prosecuted, pled guilty and were sentenced for the planning and implementation of the gun store robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: (NEW YORK - - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York (DEA), Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), and Maria T. Vullo, Superintendent...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for stealing a firearm from a murder victim.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: DEC. 2, 2016 - The U.S. Census Bureau has announced four new members to serve on its National Advisory Committee (NAC). This committee consists of 32 members who work on topics such as language, the aging and hard-to-reach populations, race and ethnicity, and American Indian and Alaska Native tribal...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Virgil Flaviu Georgescu, a Dual U.S.-Romanian Citizen, Agreed to Provide Military-Grade Weapons to be Used to Shoot Down American Aircraft in Colombia.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: TUPELO, MS: The Natchez Trace Parkway invites children and their families to come enjoy the Read with a Ranger program at 10:00 am on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2016, at the Parkway Visitor Center. This month’s featured story is “Over and Under the Snow." Discover an entire world under your feet as you explore...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Christopher Sharod Massena, 25, of Palm Beach County, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison to be followed by three years supervised release for the distribution of Fentanyl, resulting in the death of a 23 year old man.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - William Cafarella was indicted on multiple fraud charges involving his scheme to obtain in excess of $395,000 in fraudulent proceeds from West County Honda, causing more than $1.8 million in losses to the dealership.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Ariel Monet-Viola Long, 22, of Burke, was sentenced today to 138 months in prison for robbery and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that U.S. District Chief Judge Brian A. Jackson sentenced MARSHA COLE, also known as Sandra McPherson, age 57, of Metairie, Louisiana, to ninety-five (95) months in federal prison as a result of her bank fraud scheme across several states...