News from November 2016
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Eisenhower National Historic Site and the Gettysburg Foundation invite you to celebrate this holiday season at the home and farm of Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower. The National Park Service decorates the Eisenhower home for Christmas, December 1 through 31, 2016. The celebration includes a holiday reception on Saturday, Dec. 10, complete with cider and cookies courtesy of Gettysburg Tours, Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man was sentenced today to 40 months in prison for distributing large quantities of heroin in and around downtown Newark, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - On Nov. 17, 2016, a federal grand jury returned a 10-count indictment against Aracelis N. Ayala aka Gordita aka Fluff, 34, Turrel Thomas, 21, and Raheem Miller aka Caesar, 24, charging them with two Hobbs Act robberies, conspiracy, related gun charges, and territorial offenses, United States Attorney Ronald W. Sharpe announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: FBI Investigating a Bank Takeover and Robbery at the First NBC in Kentwood, Louisiana.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2016 – This week millions of Americans will gather family and friends around the dinner table to give thanks. But for those preparing the meal, it can be a stressful time. Not to mention, for many it is the largest meal they have cooked all year, leaving plenty of room for mistakes that could cause foodborne illness.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department reached a settlement today resolving claims that the Denver Sheriff Department discriminated against work-authorized immigrants in violation of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). The Denver Sheriff Department is the largest sheriff department in the state of Colorado.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: A Newport Beach, California, man was sentenced today in connection with a fraudulent debt relief firm, the Justice Department and U.S. Postal Inspection Service announced. The defendant worked at Nelson Gamble and Associates and Jackson Hunter Morris and Knight, companies that offered to settle credit card debts but instead took victims’ payments as undisclosed up-front fees.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Ahmad Sheikhzadeh, 60, a U.S. citizen and resident of New York City, New York, pleaded guilty to filing a false income tax return that substantially understated the amount of cash salary the defendant received from Iran’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations (IMUN) and conspiring to facilitate the ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging Mohamed Rafik Naji, 37, of Brooklyn, New York, with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization. Naji was arrested ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: An Oregon, Ohio psychiatrist was sentenced today to serve 18 months in prison in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio for tax evasion, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney Carole ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch today released the following statement on the recent acts of violence and ambush style shooting of law enforcement officers: “Over the last several days, the nation has witnessed a disturbing spate of violence against law enforcement officer across the country. Since ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that Randel Branscum, 56, formerly the chief sheriff’s deputy and jail administrator for the Stone County Sheriff’s Office in Mountain View, Arkansas, was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison for instructing a group of prisoners to beat another inmate and then arranging for the assault to occur.
By Commerce News Now | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker delivered remarks at the Warner Theater to celebrate the conclusion of the 2016 U.S.-China Tourism Year. U.S. and Chinese leaders designated 2016 as the U.S.-China Tourism Year in an effort to strengthen tourism and commercial ties between the two countries. In the U.S., government and industry worked together to enhance the tourism experience for Chinese visitors and improve cultural understanding.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: NEW YORK – Sixty-three workers employed on the federally funded reconstruction of Chambers Street between Broadway and West St. in Lower Manhattan will receive a total of $1,190,861 in back wages following an investigation and litigation by the U.S. Department of Labor, in keeping with a consent order approved by the department’s Office of Administrative Law Judges.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 21, 2016
News Release: SEVEN HILLS, Ohio – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration ’s Cleveland office has opened an investigation after learning a 28-year-old employee of W.F. Hann & Sons was injured while installing sewer lines in an 8-foot trench in Seven Hills on Nov. 19, 2016.
By Labor Gazette | Nov 21, 2016
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 21, 2016
The US Interior Department published a five page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Nov 21, 2016
The US State Department published a one page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 21, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Nov 21, 2016
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Nov. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
