News from November 2016
By DOE Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: As a part of the Obama Administration's effort to cut energy waste in the nation's buildings and facilities, today the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National League of Cities launched the Better Buildings Zero Energy Districts Accelerator to move the building market toward adopting sustainable practices to help districts achieve zero energy use in buildings.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Nov. 16, 2016 BOS 2016-176. PROVIDENCE, R. I. - A Wolcott, Connecticut, contractor repeatedly exposed its employees to falls of 18 feet while performing roofing work in Middletown, an inspection by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has found. OSHA inspectors...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Michael Charles Clarke, age 43, of York, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty on Nov. 15, 2016, before Senior Judge Sylvia Rambo in Harrisburg to production, possession and transportation of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Rahimi Allegedly Detonated and Attempted to Detonate Bombs on Public Streets in the Chelsea Neighborhood of Manhattan.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A former vice president of Lenox National Bank was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Springfield for embezzling more than $150,000 from the bank.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A total of eight people are set to appear in federal court today in relation to a drug trafficking conspiracy involving cocaine and methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Christopher Fleisher, age 36, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge William W. Caldwell in Harrisburg to 46 months’ imprisonment for firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A jury today found a former Labette, Kan., banker guilty on federal charges in an embezzlement case, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOL Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Employer name: Flacks Painting & Waterproofing Inc.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Twelve Individuals Charged in ATM Skimming Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, Zwanger-Pesiri Inc., a Long Island radiology company, pleaded guilty to two counts of health care fraud for illegally performing and billing for procedures that had not been ordered by treating physicians. After accepting the guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that ROBERT LEROY CRAWLEY, age 37, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 120 months imprisonment for FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1), 924(a)(2) and 924(e)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Hunter Lane Barrett, 21, of Weston, West Virginia pled guilty to using excessive force, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced WALTER PORTER, a/k/a “Moonie," a/k/a “Urkel," age 40, of New Orleans, was sentenced today for his participation in the November 2010 murder of Christopher “Tiger" Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Two Accomplices Earlier Sentenced for the Crimes.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: IDAHO FALLS, ID - The Idaho Falls District of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking applicants for seasonal wildland firefighting jobs in Idaho Falls, Pocatello, and Salmon. Selected employees will work on wildland fire engine crews, detecting and suppressing wildfires on public lands. Previous firefighting experience is not a requirement for entry level positions.
By Interior Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Bureau of Reclamation has selected three projects to receive $299,685 under an innovative pilot-scale water treatment technologies and process for inland desalination. The selected projects will receive funding through cooperative agreements and will include a period of pilot testing at the Brackish Groundwater National Desalination Research Facility in Alamogordo, New Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: GREAT FALLS - Thomas Joseph Wehner Jr., 40, of Moyie Springs, Idaho, was sentenced today to serve 210 months in prison and 6 years on supervised release for distribution of methamphetamine resulting in death. The charges stemmed from a six-count indictment in February of this year. Wehner entered a guilty plea to the single count in August. U.S. District Court Judge Brian Morris issued the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that TARAY BUTLER, age 21, of Algiers, pled guilty today to multiple counts of violating federal firearm and narcotics laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Norman Yazzie, 56, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Shiprock, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to using and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Yazzie will be sentenced to ten years in prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
