News published on Federal Newswire in July 2016

News from July 2016


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on July 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on July 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a one page notice on July 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Energy Department published a two page notice on July 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Digest DOT 90-16

News Release: FMCSA Announces Three-Month Extension of Unified Registration System Effective Date. FMCSA is delaying the implementation of the final stage of the Unified Registration System (URS) until Jan. 14, 2017, with a new full compliance date of Apr. 14, 2017. The agency is currently updating its information ...


FRA Approves Passenger Rail Blueprint to Connect Boston and New Haven to Montreal, Add Service for Central Massachusetts

News Release: One new route would run from Boston through Springfield, Mass. to New Haven; two additional routes would connect Montreal to Boston, New Haven



U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx Announces Creation of the Build America Bureau

News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced today that the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has established the Build America Bureau, which will drive transportation infrastructure development projects in the United States by streamlining credit and grant opportunities while providing technical assistance and encouraging innovative best practices in project planning, financing, delivery, and monitoring.



U.S. Transportation Secretary Foxx Proposes U.S. Airlines and Cities for New Tokyo Haneda Routes

News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today proposed to select four airlines to provide new daytime service to Tokyo’s downtown Haneda airport as early as this fall.


News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - United States Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that a federal grand jury sitting in Charlotte returned yesterday a criminal indictment against Shira Elizabeth Mattocks, aka Shira Elizabeth Raman, 27, of Cherokee, N.C., for kidnapping her three children and fleeing to...


Pocatello Man Sentenced for Using Interstate Communication to Hire Someone to Harm His Ex-Wife

News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - John Kent Davis, 66, of Pocatello, Idaho, was sentenced today for interstate communication of a threat of bodily injury, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced.


Franklinville Man Pleads Guilty To Gun Charge;  Violating Supervised Release

News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Salvatore Faliero, 53, of Franklinville, NY, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession of a firearm before Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000...


Former Montromgery Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Defrauding HUD

News Release: Montgomery, Ala. - A Georgia resident who was previously a practicing attorney in Montgomery, Alabama pled guilty Thursday, July 14, 2016 to wire fraud affecting a financial institution, announced the United States Attorney’s Office. Christopher B. Pitts, 46, now of Atlanta, Georgia, admitted to operating a scheme to defraud the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).


Australian Man Pleads Guilty to Traveling to the U.S. to Engage in Illicit Sexual Conduct with a 6-Year-Old Boy

News Release: LOS ANGELES - An Australian geneticist pleaded guilty this morning to traveling to Los Angeles to engage in illicit sexual conduct with a 6-year-old boy.


News Release: Defendant Possessed More Than 600 Grams of Cocaine, More Than 30 Grams of Heroin, and More Than 700 Oxycodone Pills.


News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to traffic approximately two kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to New Jersey, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.



Nine Former Winnebago Tribal Council Members Indicted

News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced today that the federal grand jury has returned an eleven count indictment against nine former members of the Winnebago Tribal Council. John Blackhawk (age 61), Darwin Snyder (age 49), Thomas Snowball, Jr. (age 55), Louis Houghton (age 69), Lawrence Payer...


News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On July 20, 2016, Brian Lee Fielding, a.k.a. “Bull", 35, of Coffee County, Tenn., was sentenced to serve 262 months in prison by the Honorable Curtis L. Collier, U.S. District Judge.