News from February 2016
By DOT News Wire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: December 2015 Passenger Airline Employment Data
By DOT News Wire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – Airline consumer complaints filed with DOT’s Aviation Consumer Protection Division during 2015 were up 29.8 percent from 2014, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report released today.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Energy today announced the locations of eight public meetings on the Department’s consent-based siting initiative. These eight public meetings are part of the Department’s effort to seek input from the public on designing a fair and effective process for siting the facilities needed to manage the nation’s spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Trevor Bianchini, 24, of Rio Rancho, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., for unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition. Bianchini was sentenced to 40 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A part owner of Bayway Lumber, a Linden, New Jersey, company that sold commercial and industrial products to numerous public and private entities, today admitted his role in a scheme to defraud customers out of $708,386, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement after President Obama signed the North Korea Sanctions and Policy Enhancement Act of 2016 into law.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: The Defendant Kept Funds Hidden in Secret Off-Shore Account with Swiss Bank UBS.
By USDA Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Washington - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has appointed 13 members and alternates to serve on the National Processed Raspberry Council. Each representative, except for one of the importer alternate members, will serve a 3-year term of office beginning immediately. The importer alternate member will fill a vacancy for a term ending Dec. 31, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A federal judge today handed down a 120-month prison term to a Charlotte woman convicted of a murder-for-hire plot against her ex-husband, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Fathia Davis, a/k/a Fathia-Anna Davis, 48, was also...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Bycatch occurs when fishermen-both recreational and commercial-discard unintentionally caught fish, or when fishing gear harms or kills marine resources like marine mammals, seabirds, corals, sponges, sea turtles or protected fish. Reducing bycatch is a key part of NOAA’s efforts to maintain sustainable fisheries and conserve and recover protected species.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: LITTLE ROCK-Steven B. Jones, a former deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS), a multi-billion dollar state agency, and Phillip W. Carter, a former probation officer in Crittenden County, Arkansas, and West Memphis, Arkansas, councilmember were sentenced today for engaging...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - David C. Weiss, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, Kevin L. Perkins, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Baltimore Division, and Nathaniel McQueen, Jr., Colonel, Delaware State Police, announced today that United States District Court Judge Gerald A. McHugh sentenced Defendants David T. Matusiewicz, Lenore Matusiewicz, and Amy Gonzalez to each serve a term of life imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: St. Croix, USVI - Senior District Court Judge Raymond L. Finch sentenced today Rodney Stanley, 30, an inmate at the Golden Grove Adult Correctional Facility on St. Croix, to one month of imprisonment for possession of prison contraband, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced. Judge Finch also...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND- United States Attorney David A. Capp announced today that an Indictment was filed charging Mark Warne, 46, of Brook, Indiana with ten counts of Bank Fraud and four counts of Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Conspiracy Claimed More Than $678,000 In False Refunds From The IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that KE LIAN ZHAO, age 50, of Kenner, pled guilty to employing unauthorized aliens at his restaurant, LA JUMBO CHINA BUFFET (“JUMBO BUFFET"), and JUMBO BUFFET pled guilty to two counts of making false statements to federal agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: On Feb. 11, 2016, following a four-day trial, a federal jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, convicted Kevin Raphael Bully of narcotics trafficking and unlawful possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - Christopher “Farley" Woods, 57, of San Clemente, California, pleaded guilty today to conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Woods was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boise on Aug. 11, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Feb. 10, 2016, Steven Gabriel North, 33, of Tucson, Ariz., and a member of the Pascua Yaqui Indian Nation, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge James A. Soto to serve 63 months in prison for aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon. On Feb. 18, 2016, Antonio Ruben North...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin R. Feldis announced today that a Wasilla man was indicted by a federal grand jury in Anchorage for possession of stolen firearms, being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of stolen mail, possession and use of access devices obtained from the stolen mail, fraud, and Aggravated Identity Theft.
