News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a former 17 year veteran police officer with the Fairview Township Police Department pled guilty today to federal charges stemming from the theft of seized money that was evidence in two separate drug cases.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that WILLIAM J. WELLS was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to 46 months in prison for securities and wire fraud charges stemming from his scheme to defraud more than 30 investors, including friends, colleagues...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: DANNY JAMES HEINRICH, 53, pleaded guilty today to federal child pornography charges. As part of his allocution, HEINRICH admitted in court that on Oct. 22,1989, he abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling. HEINRICH also admitted that, in January 1989, he abducted and sexually assaulted 12-year-old J.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney G.F. Peterman, III announced eight agencies in the Middle District of Georgia received Department of Justice grant funds totaling $372,584.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2016 – Leaders from seven state departments of agriculture and 23 U.S. agribusinesses and organizations will accompany Deputy Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services Alexis Taylor on a trade mission to Hong Kong and Shanghai Sept. 7 to Sept. 15 to extend USDA's Women in Agriculture initiative abroad and expand export opportunities for U.S. food and agricultural products.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2016 – USDA Rural Development Under Secretary Lisa Mensah today announced grants to preserve and repair affordable housing for very-low- and low-income families living in rural areas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Department Will Continue to Carefully Monitor ABI’s Compliance with Distribution Obligations and Competitive Effects of ABI’s Craft Acquisitions Deputy Assistant Attorney General Juan Arteaga of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division released the following statement today on the division’s decision to close its investigation into Anheuser-Busch InBev’s (ABI) acquisition of Virginia-based craft brewer, Devils Backbone.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: A Greenville, Texas, resident pleaded guilty today to one count of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John R. Parker for the Northern District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: A federal grand jury sitting in Charlotte, North Carolina, returned an indictment on Aug. 16, which was unsealed today, against a Monroe, North Carolina, resident charging him with one count of attempting to interfere with the due administration of the internal revenue laws and five counts of filing a false income tax return, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Matthew Gust, 26, was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for setting fire to a Somali restaurant in Grand Forks, North Dakota, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, and U.S. Attorney Christopher C. Myers of the District of North Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Danny James Heinrich, 53, of Annandale, Minnesota, pleaded guilty today to federal child pornography charges. As part of his allocution, Heinrich admitted in court that on Oct. 22, 1989, he abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling. Heinrich also admitted that, in January ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: Defendant Was Shot After He Refused Repeated Commands to Drop Handgun Jesse A. Olivieri, 31, of Ashland, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty today to a federal charge stemming from a confrontation with law enforcement in which he brandished a gun near the White House, announced U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips for the District of Columbia and Chief Robert D. MacLean of the U.S. Park Police.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: A Sun Valley, California, man pleaded guilty today to charges related to a 2013 shooting at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in which he murdered a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer.
By Fed Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday announced the termination of the enforcement action listed below: FirstFed Bancorp, Inc. Employee Stock Ownership Plan and FirstFed Bancorp, Inc., both of Bessemer, Alabama Written Agreement dated June 27, 2011 Terminated Sept. 1, 2016 Search of Federal Reserve enforcement actions. For media inquiries, call 202-452-2955.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: PERRYSBURG, Ohio ‒ For the second time in five months, federal inspectors have cited an Indiana framing contractor for failing to protect workers from fall hazards on residential construction sites. Preventable falls account for nearly 40 percent of all deaths in the construction industry.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: LANSING, Ill. – For a Joliet construction contractor in business more than 50 years, the dangers of working in an unprotected trench should be nothing new. Yet, the company’s history of allowing employees to work in unsafe trenches continues – this time to excavate utility lines 7-feet deep in June 2016 at a Torrence Avenue job site.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA – As they recover from the impacts of Hermine, a hurricane that continued as a tropical storm, Florida’s emergency workers, employers and the public at-large should be aware of the hazards they may encounter and take necessary steps to stay safe, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges.
By Labor Gazette | Sep 6, 2016
News Release: CEDARBURG, Wis. – As he hand-polished a 40-inch long metal cylinder, a 36-year-old lathe operator became entangled in the machine’s operating spindle and suffered injuries that led to his death two days later.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Sept. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 6, 2016
The US Interior Department published a three page notice on Sept. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
