News from May 2016
By DOT News Wire | May 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx today announced the immediate availability of $1 million in Emergency Relief (ER) funds from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to stabilize and repair roads damaged by heavy rains on federal lands throughout the Chattahoochee National Forest in northern Georgia.
By DOT News Wire | May 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – Airline consumer complaints filed with DOT’s Aviation Consumer Protection Division in March 2016 were down 17.7 percent from March 2015 and down 5.0 percent from February 2016, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Air Travel Consumer Report released today.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: In recent weeks, visitors in the park have been engaging in inappropriate, dangerous, and illegal behavior with wildlife. These actions endanger people and have now resulted in the death of a newborn bison calf.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Tristan Shaw, age 31, of Granville, New York, was indicted on May 11 for receiving and possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mark W. McGregor, 63, of Charles Town, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today to bribery concerning federal program funds for his role in a bribery scheme that caused $380,000 in losses to the U.S. government.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Dameon Lattimore, age 39, of New York, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III in Harrisburg, to distributing heroin and crack cocaine that led to the death of a York City man.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Corning International Kabushiki Kaisha (Corning International K.K.) has agreed to plead guilty and pay a $66.5 million criminal fine for conspiring to fix prices, rig bids and allocate the market for ceramic substrates sold in the United States and elsewhere, and used in catalytic converters supplied to automobile manufacturers in the United States and elsewhere, the Justice Department announced today.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Students at Newark's Ivy Hill Elementary to visit African Burial Ground NM.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: FARGO - U. S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on April 18, 2016, Anthony Lamarr Sims, 21, a.k.a. Mar Mar, Minneapolis, Minn., was sentenced before U. S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson to serve 14 years in prison for one count of Sex Trafficking of Children. Judge Erickson also sentenced Sims to serve 10 years of supervised release and to pay a $100 special assessment to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MT -Glacier National Park road crews are nearing the final phase of snow removal on Going-to-the-Sun road. On the west side, road crews are tackling the Big Drift as well as removing snow from the Logan Pass parking lot. On the east side of Going-to-the-Sun road the dozer has pushed through the East Tunnel, however more snow removal is needed to reach asphalt.
By Interior Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Friday, May 20, 7 p.m. - Celebrate Endangered Species Success Stories.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Sharon M. Helman, 45, of Surprise, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Steven P. Logan to a term of two years’ probation. Helman previously pleaded guilty to making a false statement to a government agency, a felony offense.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Bassem Kuran, 23, of Philadelphia, formerly the owner of VIP Ambulance, Inc., (“VIP") now defunct, was charged by information with making false statements in a health care matter, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOE Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $10 million in funding for six projects representing innovative technologies and solutions to advance bioenergy development. These projects, located in Arizona, California, North Carolina, Delaware, and Illinois, will support the Bioenergy Technologies Office's...
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - After a five-day trial, a federal jury convicted a man of conspiring to distribute multiple kilograms of cocaine and launder large sums of drug proceeds. Prior to the trial, the defendant pleaded guilty to partaking in a dog fighting enterprise. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the guilty verdict today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont and the office of the Vermont Attorney General announced the resolution of their investigations of accountant Raymond Kushi and accounting firm Kushi and Myers, PC for submitting or causing to be submitted false claims for payment to...
By Commerce Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, released written responses Michigan Governor Rick Snyder’s to official questions for the record about his testimony before the Committee on March 17, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: Defendant Charged With Robbing the Same Bank Twice in Five Days.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Mark W. McGregor, 63, of Charles Town, West Virginia, pleaded guilty today to bribery concerning federal program funds for his role in a bribery scheme that caused $380,000 in losses to the U.S. government.
By DOJ Newswire | May 16, 2016
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Jefferson City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for receiving and attempting to distribute child pornography over the Internet.
