News from September 2016
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement after the Department of Labor announced its final rule requiring federal contractors to provide up to 7 paid sick days a year, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal grand jury today indicted a Mexican man on drug distribution and weapons charges, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: A Barrio Azteca (BA) gang associate was sentenced today to 240 months in prison for his participation in a racketeering conspiracy and drug trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Justice Department and Pittsfield Charter Township Resolve Lawsuit Over Denial of Zoning Approval for Islamic School.
By Commerce Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., warned of the damage to U.S. workers in the aluminum sector caused by China’s trade-distorting industrial policies, in testimony he submitted to a U.S. International Trade Commission hearing today. The ITC held the hearing to evaluate...
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: U.S. Department of Labor | Sept. 29, 2016 BOS 2016-152
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument will host a night sky program entitled "Slightly Spooky Star Stories" to enjoy the Halloween season by investigating some of the mysterious stories of the fall constellations.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Alexander Burton Blake, 26, of Cheektowaga, NY, pleaded guilty to distributing and possessing child pornography involving prepubescent children, before Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci. The charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Projects certified through the National Park Service's Federal Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program in Fiscal Year 2015 contributed more than $9.4 billion in output in terms of goods and services to the U.S. economy, and added $4.8 billion in gross domestic product, according to an by the Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Matthew Muller, 39, of South Lake Tahoe, pleaded guilty today to one count of kidnapping, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced that a Homer resident pleaded guilty Wednesday to failing to update his sex offender registration.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Tampering with Evidence, Accessory to First Degree Murder, False Statement, and Misprision of a Felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - Napoleon Robinson, 65, of Lauderhill, Florida, pleaded guilty yesterday evening to charges of evasion of employment tax payment.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Ian Mackie was sentenced to 14 years in prison on multiple child enticement charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a Halifax man pled guilty before U.S. District Court Judge William W. Caldwell, to a two count felony information, charging him with receipt of images depicting the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Rep. John Kline (R-MN), chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, released the following joint statement after the Department of Labor finalized new rules affecting federal contractors and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued new requirements regarding federal collection of employee pay data...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: HOUSTON - Benjamin Douglas Guidry has entered a guilty plea to two counts of sexual exploitation of children and for knowingly making a false claim in the nature of preparing and filing a false tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson along with Special Agent in Charge D. Richard Goss of IRS-Criminal Investigation (CI) and Special Agent in Charge Perrye K. Turner of the FBI.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced today that the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) and the Memphis Police Department (MPD) have both received Department of Justice (DOJ) grants that collectively amount to more than $800,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-A Tulsa County probate attorney made his initial appearance today in U.S. District Court on charges stemming from his embezzling $587,000 from probate estate accounts he controlled. United States Attorney Danny C. Williams Sr. of the Northern District of Oklahoma and Special Agent in Charge R. Damon Rowe of the IRS-CI’s Dallas Office announced the criminal charges at a news conference held this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 29, 2016
News Release: Barrio Azteca Gang Associate Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison for Participating in Racketeering Conspiracy.
