News from December 2016
By DOJ Gazette | Dec 23, 2016
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Dec. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Dec 23, 2016
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Dec. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Dec 23, 2016
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Dec. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 23, 2016
The US Labor Department published a two page notice on Dec. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 23, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Dec. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared a Lowell, Massachusetts-based trucking company, Kamway Services, USDOT No. 2509225, to be an imminent hazard to public safety and ordered the company to immediately cease all interstate ...

By DOT News Wire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Texas-licensed truck driver Steven Wayne Johnson to be an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered him not to operate any commercial motor vehicle (CMV) in interstate commerce. Johnson was served the federal order on Dec. 16, 2016.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) today finalized its policy for how to lessen and offset adverse environmental effects caused by various uses of the public lands. This announcement formalizes the agency’s knowledge developed through years of applying mitigation measures in the context of its multiple use and sustained yield mission.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: A Miami Gardens, Florida, resident was sentenced to 48 months in prison in connection with a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and “cloning" their phones to make fraudulent international calls.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- At the direction of the U.S. Attorney General, in early 2013 the U.S. Department of Justice (Department) launched a comprehensive review of the criminal justice system in order to identify reforms that would ensure federal laws are enforced more fairly and-in an era of reduced budgets-more efficiently. Five goals were identified as a part of this review.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Richard Shusterman, age 53, of Highland Beach, Florida, today to 18 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a wire fraud conspiracy and nine counts of wire fraud in connection with a complex scheme to defraud...

By State Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement in response to the new U.S. Department of Treasury designation of 18 individuals and five entities supporting ongoing violence committed by the government of Syria...

By US DOT Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposes civil penalties ranging from $57,400 to $72,000 against three companies for allegedly violating the Hazardous Materials Regulations.

By DOE Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today released the following statement to mark the third anniversary of the Obama administration’s heartless rejection of a life-saving road for the people of King Cove, Alaska.

By Interior Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released for public review the Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the proposed execution of an Interim Renewal Contract for Central Valley Project water with the Sacramento County Water Agency.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Riverside man was sentenced yesterday to 20 years in federal prison for possession of child pornography, the latest Inland Empire man to receive a substantial sentence for a child pornography offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge James K. Bredar sentenced Richard Shusterman, age 53, of Highland Beach, Florida, today to 18 years in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for a wire fraud conspiracy and nine counts of wire fraud in connection with a complex scheme to defraud...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury yesterday found Skyler Christian Awad (27, Indialantic) guilty of bank robbery, carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, attempted robbery affecting interstate commerce, possession of...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Cardinal Health, Inc. agreed to pay $44,000,000 to the United States to resolve allegations that it violated the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) in Maryland, Florida and New York by failing to report suspicious orders of controlled substances to pharmacies located in those states.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 23, 2016
News Release: A Miami Gardens, Florida, resident was sentenced to 48 months in prison in connection with a sophisticated global cell phone fraud scheme that involved compromising cellphone customers’ accounts and “cloning" their phones to make fraudulent international calls.