News from November 2016
By DOT News Wire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: FMCSA Issues Safety Advisory for the Immediate Repair of DOT407 and DOT412 Cargo Tanks Manufactured by Keith Huber Incorporated Prior to May 1, 2013. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is issuing a safety advisory to provide notice to owners and operators of DOT407 and DOT412 cargo ...
By DOT News Wire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Transportation today issued a Show Cause Order tentatively denying the application of American Airlines, Inc. and Qantas Airways, Ltd. to expand their existing alliance for services between the United States and Australia/New Zealand.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A citizen of Honduras, who has been removed from the United States or voluntarily returned to Mexico at least five times previously, was sentenced today in Federal Court for the illegally reentering the United States after previously being deported, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: COVINGTON, Ky. - A Milford, Ohio woman, who possessed heroin and crack cocaine with the intent to distribute them, and used a firearm to further her drug trafficking, was sentenced today to 78 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: All 14 Defendants Have Now Pled Guilty in Largest Debt Collection Scheme Ever Prosecuted.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - Today, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Ranking Member of the Committee on Homeland Security, released the following statement on the President-elect’s selections for key national security positions - Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General, Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn as National Security Advisor, and Rep. Mike Pompeo as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Today the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced a $250,000 settlement agreement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with the Arlington County Sheriff’s Office (ACSO) that it failed to provide appropriate auxiliary aids and services to an individual who is deaf.
By Homeland Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, released the below statement following the announcement that President-elect Donald Trump has selected retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn to serve as his national security advisor.
By DOE Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) this week sent a letter to National Park Service (NPS) Director Jonathan Jarvis requesting an immediate 60-day extension of the public comment period for Director’s Order #100, regarding “Resource Stewardship for the 21st Century." The Park Service is attempting to finalize this sweeping last-second policy proposal by the end of December, in part by limiting the public comment period to just 30 days.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: A San Angelo, Texas, man pleaded guilty today to fraud and obstruction of justice charges in connection with two investment companies he ran that defrauded investors out of approximately $900,000 over a four-year period.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the Department of the Interior released their finalized Five-Year Plan for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Oil and Gas Leasing Program from 2017-2022. Chairman Rob Bishop (R-UT) released the following statement.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Battle Mountain, NV. -- The Bureau of Land Management, Battle Mountain District has begun selling permits for Christmas trees and has extended a program to give free Christmas tree permits to fourth graders.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Defendant Forced His Way Into Victim’s Apartment.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyler M. Purvis-Mitchell, 22, of Albany, New York was sentenced to 19 months in prison for unlawfully possessing a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Razak A. Dosunmu, 61, of Washington, D.C, was sentenced today to 15 months in prison for offering bribes to a procurement official with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), while negotiating aviation fuel contracts worth over $1 billion.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A Bolingbrook man was sentenced today to 40 months in federal prison, followed by 20 years of supervised release, for attempting to travel overseas to join a foreign terrorist organization in Syria.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Daniel Wise, age 55, formerly of Tafton, Pennsylvania, currently residing in New York, NY, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge James M. Munley in Scranton, to 2 years’ probation and 100 hours’ community service, for making false declarations in bankruptcy proceedings. Judge Munley also ordered Wise to pay a $30,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: Slot Machines Placed in Shops in Bakersfield, Ceres, Delano, Fresno, Lamont, Lodi. Modesto, Sacramento, and Elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 18, 2016
News Release: A 67 year-old Detroit man was taken into custody after a criminal complaint was filed in federal court charging him with sex trafficking, announced United States Attorney Barbara L. McQuade.
