News from March 2016
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Mar 29, 2016
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on March 29, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the availability of $5.3 million in competitive grant funds to improve public transportation options that increase access to healthcare for those who lack good transportation choices.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced the opportunity to apply for approximately $266 million in competitive grant funding for bus programs nationwide. The funding consists of $211 million in grants for buses and bus facilities projects, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted as Part of HOPE Initiative which Seeks to Reduce the Number of Opioid-Related Deaths in New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Assistant Attorney General for National Security John P. Carlin, U.S. Attorney Kevin W. Techau of the Northern District of Iowa, Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin VanderSchel of the Southern District of Iowa, and Deputy Assistant Director Eric Sporre of the FBI’s Cyber Division, will deliver remarks...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a former auditor and fraud investigator for the South Dakota Department of Revenue has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Conspiracy, Wire Fraud, Bank Fraud, Money Laundering, and Tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: John Milton Nagel, 47, pled guilty to three counts of mailing threatening communications from a foreign country, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 877. At sentencing, Nagel faces a maximum statutory sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine on each count. Sentencing has been scheduled for May 26, 2016 at 2 p.m. before U.S. District Judge Jose E. Martinez.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | March 29, 2016 BOS 2016-045
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: BANGOR, Maine - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Antonio Gordon, 32, of Bangor pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to distributing cocaine base, commonly known as “crack cocaine."
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla. - A member of the Universal Aryan Brotherhood (UAB) prison gang was sentenced today in federal court to 262 months in prison for conspiring to conduct a racketeering enterprise and related charges, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: “Today the Subcommittee will hold the first in a series of hearings to focus on fundamental tax reform. We are honored to have three of our esteemed colleagues join us today so we can learn about bills they have developed to take the tax system in a new direction, by moving away from income as the tax...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service (NPS) and the Maryland Geocaching Society (MGS) announce a six-week collaboration designed to introduce geocaching participants to national parks and public lands in Maryland. Geocaching is an outdoor game using GPS-enabled devices. Participants navigate to a specific set of GPS coordinates and then attempt to find a geocache container hidden at that location.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former Navy noncommissioned officer was sentenced today to 24 months in prison for accepting approximately $25,000 in cash bribes from vendors while he served in Afghanistan.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: BOISE, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is preparing an environmental assessment for noxious weeds and invasive plants management within the Boise District boundaries. The purpose of the proposed action is to promote land health into the foreseeable future by reducing or eliminating noxious weeds...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - David Ryan Burchard, 38, of Merced, was arrested late Monday, charged in a criminal complaint with distribution of marijuana and cocaine on dark-web marketplaces, including the Silk Road, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced. Burchard made his initial appearance on the complaint today before U.S. Magistrate Judge Erica P. Grosjean in Fresno.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: BEAVER, Pa. - Twenty-one-year-old Jacob Casher was still a "new guy" employed by a Beaver-based plumbing company when he left home for work in September 2015. He probably never imagined that, as he worked to install a sewer line 11-feet underground in Butler, it was to be the last day of his life.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - U. S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the Supreme Court issued a split ruling in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association affirming the lower court decision that protected the ability of public sector employees to bargain collectively and make their voices heard.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 29, 2016
News Release: Dear Acting Administrator Slavitt: We encourage you to reconsider the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed policy changes to Medicare Advantage (MA) Employer Group Waiver Plans (EGWPs) as outlined in CMS’s Advanced Notice and Call Letter issued Feb. 19, 2016. We are concerned...
