News from November 2016
By USDA Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: From Mosquito-Repelling Uniforms to Wood Fiber Microchips, USDA Research Creates Opportunities, Improves Lives WASHINGTON, Nov. 22, 2016 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today released results of investments in scientific research including 222 new inventions, 94 patents awarded and 125 new ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department today announced an Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Title III regulation to further clarify a public accommodation’s obligation to provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services for people with disabilities. The final rule provides that public accommodations that own, operate ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it reached a settlement with the Aldine, Texas, Independent School District resolving allegations that the district discriminated against work-authorized non-citizens in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The district is the ninth largest ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch released the following statement on the planned departure of U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania: “For the last six and a half years, U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger has served the people of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania – ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department filed a lawsuit today against Bernards Township, New Jersey, alleging that the township violated the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA) when it denied zoning approval to allow the Islamic Society of Basking Ridge to build a mosque on land it owns. The land is located in a zone that, at the time of the Islamic Society’s zoning request, permitted the construction of places of worship as a matter of right.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: The owner and CEO of a Greenbelt, Maryland, building contracting company was convicted today for stealing $1.7 million from Local 657 of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) and other related offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Paul Carter, 46, of Milwaukee, pleaded guilty in the Eastern District of Wisconsin late yesterday to eight counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and one count of conspiracy to commit forced labor and sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Robert Paschalis, 25, of Toledo, Ohio, pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime for beating an African-American stranger he saw on the street. Paschalis’s co-defendant, Charles Butler, pleaded guilty to the same crime on Nov. 9.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON—A federal grand jury in Central Islip, New York, returned an indictment today charging Thomas Kokell, a fisherman from East Northport, New York, with conspiracy, mail fraud and falsification of federal records, the Justice Department announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Today, the President granted commutation of sentence to the following 79 individuals: * Lawrence Daro Adams – Houston, TX Offense: Possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine, aiding and abetting; Southern District of Texas Sentence: 240 months' imprisonment; five years' supervised release; $5,000 fine (July 20, 2001) Commutation Grant: Prison sentence commuted to expire on Mar. 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: A leader of the Almighty Imperial Gangsters Nation pleaded guilty today to participating in a racketeering conspiracy involving murder, attempted murder, aggravated battery, aggravated assault and narcotics distribution.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Four years ago this month, America’s eastern seaboard began the long and difficult process of rebuilding in the wake of Hurricane Sandy’s destruction, the second-costliest weather disaster in American history. Since then, extreme weather events have continued to claim lives, devastate our communities and negatively affect our economy.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 22, 2016
News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker delivered remarks at the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade (JCCT) Collaborative Program on the Digital Economy. As part of the “Reimagined JCCT,” this event brought the U.S. and Chinese business communities together with government officials from both countries for a discussion on a topic that is ripe for collaboration.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 22, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 22, 2016
The US Commerce Department published a one page rule on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 22, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 22, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Nov 22, 2016
The US State Department published a one page notice on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 22, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a six page notice on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 22, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 22, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
