News from February 2016
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Feb 17, 2016
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Feb. 17, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Administrator sends letter to state DOTs urging them to conduct inspections with railroads
By DOT News Wire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today provided a preliminary report regarding its investigation into the Plains All American pipeline failure, which occurred on May 19, 2015, in Santa Barbara County, California. The ...
By DOT News Wire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Part of agency’s comprehensive campaign to reduce fatalities at railroad crossings
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Today U.S. District Court Chief Judge Patti B. Saris reaffirmed the 1990 life sentence of Darryl Whiting who was a notorious and violent drug trafficker in Boston.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: BISMARCK - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Feb. 16, 2016, Solomon Lindsay, 39, Bismarck, N.D., was sentenced before U. S. District Court Judge Daniel L. Hovland to time served plus three years’ supervised release on three counts of Tax Fraud. Judge Hovland also ordered Lindsay to pay $300 to the Crime Victims’ Fund, as well as restitution to the IRS.
By DOL Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I. - The structural steel collapse at Bryant University in Smithfield that injured six workers on Sept. 1, 2015, could have been prevented, an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has determined.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Almuntasser “Alex" Hbaiu, age 34, and Michael Kang, age 46, both of Los Angeles, California, were sentenced on Feb. 11, 2016 by U.S. District Court for the Central District of California Judge John A. Kronstadt.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced today that WILLIAM JAMES SMITH, Jr., a/k/a Jimmy, age 35, of Okay, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 54 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years of supervised release for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM & AMMUNITION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: On February 9, 2016, three southern Illinois residents pled guilty to a crack cocaine offense, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that ALEJANDRO D. RODRIGUEZ, age 36, of Kenner, pled guilty today to conspiracy to transfer identification documents and to transferring identification documents, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1028(f) and 42 U.S.C. § 408(a)(7)(C), respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - U.S. Attorney Charles M. Oberly, III announced yesterday that on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2016, following a 2 ½ month investigation, the Wilmington Resident Office of the Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA") - with assistance from the Newark Police Department SWAT, the Wilmington...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - Representatives from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Marine Corps will host a Resource Management Group meeting on April 2, 2016 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Lucerne Valley Community Center, 33187 Highway 247 East, Lucerne Valley, Calif.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Sergio Ayala-Sotelo, 26, and Gilberto Sanchez-Andrade, 25, both from Mexico, made an initial appearance today on charges of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Both of the defendants were indicted on February 9, 2016, by a federal grand jury in Boise.
By DOE Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) unveiled the Better Buildings Challenge SWAP, which involved Hilton Worldwide and Whole Foods Market swapping energy management teams at their facilities in San Francisco.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles announced that four individuals were sentenced in federal court in Columbia, SC as part of a mail theft and forgery ring that was operating in the Midlands of South Carolina from July 2014 through November 2014. Johnnie Wayne Martin, III, 50, of...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that NATASHA DAWN POAFPYBITTY, age 29, of Stilwell, Oklahoma pled guilty to POSSESSION WITH INTENT TO DISTRIBUTE METHAMPHETAMINE, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(1) and 841(b)(1)(A)(viii), punishable by not less than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $10,000,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 59 year old Orange, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for conspiring to possess “crack" cocaine and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 17, 2016
News Release: William Fuller III, 40, an inmate at the United States Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Benton to an additional term of 77 months in prison for possessing two weapons in that facility and using them to assault another inmate, announced James L.
