News from July 2016
By Commerce News Now | Jul 13, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on July 13, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), in coordination with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), today announced proposed regulations for Oil Spill Response Plans and Information Sharing for High-Hazard Flammable Trains ...
By DOT News Wire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON –The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) today announced it issued over $3.7 million in FY2016 Hazardous Materials Instructor Training (HMIT) and Supplemental Public Sector Training (SPST) grants.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: May 2016 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: On July 12, 2016, Jenny L. Parks-Smith, 42, of Carterville, IL, pled guilty to a bankruptcy fraud charge pending against her in federal court in Benton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. Parks-Smith was indicted on Feb. 2, 2016, as part of an effort to crackdown on those who commit fraud during the course of bankruptcy proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - William M. Richmond, 60, formerly of Atkinson, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for tax evasion, reports United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Chief U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake sentenced former U.S. Postal Service employee Linwood R. Nelson, Jr., age 32, of Baltimore, today to 30 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for federal charges related to a conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute heroin, and to diverting packages of drugs sent through the U.S. mail and delivering them to co-conspirators.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup on eight bills including H.R. 5577 (Rep. Garret Graves, R-LA), the Innovation in Offshore Leasing Act, which modernizes the Bureau of Ocean Management’s offshore leasing process through the use of internet-based oil and natural gas lease sales. H.R. 5577 passed as part of a broader unanimous consent package.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Case Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By State Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) announced the Committee will meet TOMORROW, Thursday, July 14 at 10:15 a.m. to consider...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Defendants Admit To Presenting To The Government False Commercial Invoices That Led to the Underpayment of Customs Duties and Agree To Pay $13.375 Million.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: “Thank you Mr. Chairman. “A little more than six years ago, broad based stock indexes collapsed and then rebounded over the course of about half an hour - the Dow dropped by nine hundred and ninety-eight points in a few minutes, the largest intra-day point decline in its history. “Subsequent research...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Pennsylvania woman was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for her role in a long-running, large-scale scheme involving the fraudulent sale of telecommunications equipment belonging to a company she worked for as a consultant, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded more than $1.6 million in grants from the Land and Water Conservation Fund in 2016 to preserve 397.61 acres at 11 of America's battlefields. The grants will fund projects at battlefields that are threatened by development in Maryland, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Virginia.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Responding to the soaring cost of housing in Oregon and across the United States, Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today introduced a bill aimed at helping individuals and families purchase their first home.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON - The U.S. District Court has entered a civil judgment of $4,506,267 in favor of the United States and against a Lexington woman, and the medical device companies she owns, holding them liable for making false statements that allowed them to receive millions of dollars in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man pleaded guilty in federal court today to robbing Bank of America and kidnapping the bank manager by forcing him to leave the bank with him.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON - The U.S. District Court has entered a civil judgment of $4,506,267 in favor of the United States and against a Lexington woman, and the medical device companies she owns, holding them liable for making false statements that allowed them to receive millions of dollars in federal grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - An Allegheny County resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution, receipt and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2016
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Joel Lopez, Jr., 38, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Nancy J. Rosenstengel to 360 months (30 years) in federal prison on five felony drug counts and 240 months for conspiring to commit...
