News from December 2016
By DOT News Wire | Dec 30, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Dec. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 30, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on Dec. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 30, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page rule on Dec. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 30, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a three page rule on Dec. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Dec 30, 2016
The US Justice Department published a five page rule on Dec. 30, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: Martin Klepper will lead effort to streamline and accelerate transportation infrastructure projects

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Melissa Strohman, age 54, of Nottingham, Maryland, is facing federal charges of wire fraud and bank embezzlement, arising from a six-year scheme to steal over $1.8 million from bank customers at the bank where she worked, and use the money for her own benefit.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) released the following statement after President Obama announced new sanctions and other actions against Russia in response to the country's efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), House Committee on Rules Ranking Member Louise Slaughter (D-NY), House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-TN), and Subcommittee on Intellectual Property Ranking Member, and former chair of the Subcommittee ...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division (“DEA"), George P. Beach II, Superintendent of the New York State Police (“NYSP"), and James P. O’Neill, Commissioner...

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Okreek, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Aggravated Sexual Abuse, Sexual Abuse of a Minor, and Child Abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kenya Brown, 41, of Rochester, New York, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute 5 kilograms or more of cocaine and 280 grams or more of cocaine base (“crack" cocaine), and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Blunt, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for two counts of Felon in Possession of a Firearm and Ammunition.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi. - Elza Eugene Harter, 52, of Picayune, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to serve 97 months in federal prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis. Harter was also ordered to pay a $10,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: A Waterloo woman who possessed heroin with intent to distribute near Morris Park in Waterloo, Iowa, was sentenced yesterday to 21 months in federal prison.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Gerald H. Franz, Jr., 54, of Eden, New York, who was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, was sentenced to time served by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. He was further ordered to pay, jointly and severally with his codefendants, restitution in the amount of over $890,000.00.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: BISHOP, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management will host guided hikes in January on the film history and natural history of the Alabama Hills.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: CEDAR CITY, Utah-The Bureau of Land Management Cedar City Field Office will soon be gathering and removing excess wild horses from within and outside the Frisco Wild Horse Herd Management Area (HMA) in western Utah.

By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: FBI Seeks Public Information on Armed Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 30, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.- TULSA, Okla.-Chief United States District Court Judge Gregory K. Frizzell sentenced Jesse Bud Leaverton, 58, to life imprisonment under the three-strikes sentencing statute for robbing three banks in the Tulsa metro area, announced Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.