News from November 2016
By US DOT Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, released the following statement in regards to the final report released today by the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality's (DEQ) review of domestic water wells in Pavillion, Wyoming.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas - John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, and William Temple, Special Agent in Charge, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Dallas Field Division, joined Ken Shetter, President of One Safe Place, and Joel Fitzgerald, Fort Worth Chief of Police, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Thomas Peterson, age 57 of Kearney, Nebraska, was sentenced by the Honorable Richard G. Kopf, Senior United States District Judge, to nine years in prison to be followed by 5 years of supervised release following his conviction on four counts of violating...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Lexington man, who was convicted earlier this year of receiving thousands of child pornography images, has been sentenced to 78 months in federal prison.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Advancing the President’s Climate Action Plan to create jobs, cut carbon pollution and develop clean domestic energy, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell today announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) finalized its rule governing solar and wind energy development on public lands.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ALEX LICHTENSTEIN, a/k/a “Shaya," pled guilty to bribery and offering a bribe in connection with his efforts to pay bribes to obtain gun licenses through the New York City Police Department’s (“NYPD") License Division. LICHTENSTEIN pled guilty before United States District Judge Sidney H. Stein today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida- United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Domenico (68) and Rosa Cingari (67) guilty of conspiracy, mail fraud, and making false statements in immigration applications and petitions. They each face up to 5 years in federal prison on the conspiracy...
By DOE Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The House Committee on Energy and Commerce today announced its hearing schedule for the week of November 14.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Magna Seating doing business as Excelsior Springs Seating System. Magna Seating doing business as Excelsior Springs Seating System. Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Citations issued: Nov. 10, 2016. Investigation findings: The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Tyrone Goodrum, age 44, of Florence, has been convicted of Conspiracy, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 371, after a two-day trial in Florence that concluded late Tuesday. United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Springfield, Mo., man and woman were sentenced in federal court today for their roles in a heroin trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Used Another Man’s Driver’s License to Commit Credit Card Fraud in the Utica Area.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: MORAINE, Ohio - Workers began making multiple complaints of unsafe working conditions at the Fuyao Glass America Inc. facility in Moraine not long after it opened in October 2015, leading to eight separate federal inspections and $226,937 in proposed penalties for the automotive glass supplier to plant brands such as Audi, Cadillac, Land Rover, Volvo and Volkswagen.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today published the 2015 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary. The 2015 PDP Annual Summary shows more than 99 percent of the samples tested had pesticide residues well below the residue levels established...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the former superintendent of the St. Joseph School District and former president of the Board of Education was sentenced in federal court today for a fraud scheme in which he received more than $662,000 in pension payments to which he was not entitled.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: An attorney and lobbyist from Hollywood, Florida was sentenced to a year in federal prison for agreeing to launder what he believed to be the cash proceeds of illegal activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Spokane - Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Alfredo Mendoza, age 34, of Warden, Washington, was sentenced today after having previously plead guilty on Aug. 30, 2016, to Production of Child Pornography and to being a Felon in Possession...
By Federal Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and Israel’s Ministry of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water Resources (MIEW), along with the Israel Innovation Authority, announced $4 million for five newly selected clean energy projects as part of the Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Energy program. This announcement marks the eighth annual selection of BIRD Energy projects, supporting efforts to develop low-carbon alternatives to traditional energy resources.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office has closed its investigation into certain spending issues regarding the Fox School District and former Fox Superintendent Dianne Critchlow. The investigation was triggered by a report issued by the Missouri State Auditor in May of this year. The investigation has concluded with the finding that there is no basis for criminal charges. The School District has been notified.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 10, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss -Kent Ali Dan, 26, of Philadelphia, Mississippi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Henry T. Wingate, to 120 months in prison for an assault resulting in serious bodily injury U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today. The brutal assault against his wife occurred in the Bogue Chitto Community of the Choctaw Indian Reservation.
