News from June 2016
By DOT News Wire | Jun 23, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on June 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Tennessee-licensed truck driver Randall J. Weddle to be an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered him not to operate any commercial motor vehicle in interstate commerce. Weddle, a commercial driver’s license (CDL) holder, was served the federal order on June 22, 2016.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Paul G. Allen’s Vulcan Inc. awards additional $10 million
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Marlon Kilgore, 31, Beloit, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William Conley to 36 months in federal prison for distributing crack cocaine. Kilgore pleaded guilty to this charge on April 21, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Hadi Sharairi, age 45, from Iowa City, has been charged with conspiring to distribute synthetic drugs. The charges are contained in an Indictment unsealed on June 16, 2016, in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - The Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced an unprecedented nationwide sweep led by the Medicare Fraud Strike Force in 36 federal districts, resulting in criminal and civil charges against 301individuals, including 61 doctors, nurses and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Tovias Dunton, has been arraigned on federal charges of conspiring to possess heroin with the intent to distribute, distribution of heroin, and using a minor to distribute and attempt to distribute heroin. The defendant was indicted as part of the Drug Market Initiative (DMI), which is an on-going commitment to eradicate the heroin market in the English Avenue neighborhood.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AMONDA MENDEZ, also known as “M-Dot" and “Dot," 25, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: The Energy Department is requesting proposals for a new Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute focused on improving technologies and processes to achieve cost parity of recycled and waste materials with primary feedstocks, while improving material efficiency in manufacturing processes. Through...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Thirteen members of a drug-trafficking cell which used passenger buses to smuggle staggering amounts of illegal drugs from Mexico to communities in the Northern District of Georgia have been sentenced for conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Mexican citizen who had been living in Corpus Christi has pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Rogelio Alfaro Carrillo, 27, pleaded guilty Feb. 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Avel Barron, 26, of Dallas, was sentenced this afternoon by U.S. District Judge Sam A. Lindsay to 151 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in September 2015 to one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Butler County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of embezzlement related to health care, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Illegally Collected Benefits including Housing and Food Assistance for more than 20 Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man convicted of Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury was sentenced on June 20, 2016, by U.S. District Judge Roberto A. Lange.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 10 research projects to empower small businesses to develop technologies that allow for the nation to more wisely and efficiently use our vast fossil energy resources and sustain economic growth.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON -The National Park Service announced today $1.19 million grants to support 20 projects at significant battlefields across the country. The projects will research, document, or interpret dozens of battlefields representing more than 300 years of history.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: G.F. “Pete" Peterman, III, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announced that Charles Michael Beatty, age 44, of Knoxville, Tennessee was sentenced on June 23, 2016, to 71 months in federal prison for bank robbery and ordered to pay a total of $9,070 in restitution by Senior United States District Court Judge Hugh Lawson in Valdosta, Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former U.S. Postal Service employee pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston to fraudulently obtaining worker’s compensation for medical travel.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Former Owner of Sneakerz, Inc., an Albuquerque Sports Bar and Restaurant, Admits Evading More than $1 Million in Federal Taxes.
