News from June 2016
By Fed News Journal | Jun 15, 2016
The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on June 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on June 15, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced a Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan of $874.6 million to Purple Line Transit Partners, LLC, for implementation of the Maryland Purple Line. The TIFIA loan will support the construction of the light rail line connecting Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties, MD.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that MALCOLM DEWAYNE ELLIS, age 38, of McAlester, Oklahoma was sentenced to 30 months imprisonment, followed by 3 years supervised release, for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2).
By DOE Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: For many centuries, the 23-mile stretch of Pacific coastline on Washington's Olympic Peninsula has been home to the Quinault Indian Nation (Tribe). The Quinault Indian Reservation, a triangular tract of land comprising more than 200,000 acres, includes the villages of Taholah, Queets, and Amanda Park.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Monroeville resident has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of distribution of Oxycodone, a Schedule II controlled substance, outside the usual course of professional practice, and omitting material information from required reports, records and other documents, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A Yorba Linda chiropractor who solicited more than $2 million from investors in a real estate scam has been sentenced to four years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Four men have been indicted on charges associated with the armed robbery of multiple La Michoacana meat markets in December 2015, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: “Earlier this week, the non-partisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released an analysis that showed 24 million Americans would lose their health coverage if Republicans ever succeeded in their endless quest to repeal the Affordable Care Act. 24 million. Over 80 percent of those losing coverage would be in working families. So much for the Republican sentiments expressed last week about incentivizing work during the roll out of their so-called poverty agenda.
By US DOT Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: The FAA’s final policy on the non-aeronautical use of airport hangars appears in today’s Federal Register and will take effect on July 1, 2017. The FAA is issuing the policy to clarify how aviation facilities - including hangars can be used on airports that receive federal funds. The final policy strikes a balance between hangar use for aviation and non-aviation purposes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Daniel J. Kumor, Special Agent in Charge of the ATF Boston Field Division, announced that LARRY TALLEDO-TORREJON, 29, a citizen of Peru last residing in Stamford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to orchestrating a murder for hire scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announced that Leon Speight Smoots, 63, of Chickasaw, Alabama, was sentenced in federal court for possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and using, carrying, or possessing a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking felony. Smoots entered a guilty plea to the charges in February of 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - An Iowa businessman pled guilty yesterday in federal court to failing to pay employment taxes and violating the Clean Water Act, announced U.S. Attorney Kevin W. Techau of the Northern District of Iowa and Acting Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: BOISE - Michael A. Southerland, 26, of Twin Falls County, Idaho, was sentenced yesterday to 42 months in prison for unlawful possession of firearms, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Chief United States District Judge B. Lynn Winmill also ordered Southerland to serve three years of supervised release and to pay a $1,000 fine. Southerland pleaded guilty on March 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Criminal Information was filed today in U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh charging Rachel Lynn Howze with obstructing an official federal proceeding while serving as a U.S. Probation Officer in Pittsburgh.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -During a business meeting today before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to vote on a resolution introduced by Chairman Jason Chaffetz to censure IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, Republicans admitted one mistake in their flawed resolution, but refused to correct...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Shawnta Brown, 40, and Kenya Brown, 41, both of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that the former Chief Executive Officer (“CEO") of Scranton-based Valor Federal Credit Union (“Valor"), formerly known as Tobyhanna Federal Credit Union, has been charged in an Information with bank fraud and attempted bank fraud.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC -The National Park Service welcomes you to Harkers Island Visitor Center on June 18, 2016 to join park staff, volunteers, and local dignitaries for festivities and a ceremony honoring both the 50th Anniversary of Cape Lookout as a National Seashore, and the National Park Services 100th...
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 15, 2016
News Release: “We have worked together actively on this bill. We have taken into account some differences and sought common ground. We have done so because of our strong common belief that one of the best things we can do for our children is to make sure we are raising them in safe, loving, and stable homes. We have seen how foster care has been a critical tool to keep abused and neglected children safe - but it is important that we only use foster care when it is absolutely necessary.
