News published on Federal Newswire in September 2016

News from September 2016


McLaughlin Man Sentenced for Simple Assault

News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man convicted of Simple Assault was sentenced on Sept. 20, 2016, by U.S. Magistrate Judge William D. Gerdes.


News Release: Attorney General Lynch Announces Support, Calls on Governors to Strengthen PDMP Efforts As part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to address the rising public health challenges caused by the national prescription opioids and heroin epidemic, Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch issued a memo this ...


News Release: Convicted of Illegally Selling Firearms and Underreporting More than $10 Million in Gross Receipts.


FBI Arrests Suspect in Albany Bank Robbery

News Release: FBI Arrests Suspect in Albany Bank Robbery.


News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has designated the geologically and historically significant Natural Bridge site in Rockbridge County, Virginia as an Affiliated Area of the National Park Service (NPS). The site, recently designated as a state park, will be managed by Virginia State Parks.


Devils Tower Star Parties

News Release: America's National Park Service sites contain some of the purest night skies in the world. As darkness falls on Devils Tower, a different kind of light illuminates the night sky. That light, which comes from objects in deep space, transforms the night from a place of darkness into a place of wonder.


News Release: For Immediate Release DHS Press Office Contact: 202-282-8010 WASHINGTON – On Sept. 22, Dušana Višňovská, Director General of the Slovak Ministry of Interior, signed an agreement to provide information on the travel of convicted child sex offenders between Slovakia and the United States. Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Chief Diplomatic Officer Alan Bersin had previously signed the agreement for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).


News Release: Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged a former north Alabama physician, who was the nation’s highest Medicare prescriber of opioid painkillers at the height of his practice, with illegally prescribing controlled substances and with a health care fraud involving $9.5 million in unneeded and unused urine ...


News Release: WASHINGTON – Ardit Ferizi, aka Th3Dir3ctorY, 20, a citizen of Kosovo, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for providing material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and accessing a protected computer without authorization and obtaining information in order to provide material support to ISIL.


News Release: The U.S. Departments of Justice, of the Army, and of the Interior today invited representatives from all 567 federally recognized tribes to participate in formal, government-to-government consultations on how federal decision-making on infrastructure projects can better allow for timely and meaningful ...


News Release: The government has intervened in a False Claims Act lawsuit against Energy & Process Corporation (E&P), of Tucker, Georgia, alleging that E&P knowingly failed to perform required quality assurance procedures and supplied defective steel reinforcing bars (rebar) in connection with a contract to construct a Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear waste treatment facility, the Justice Department announced today.


News Release: The Office of Justice Programs’ Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) today announced funding of more than $8.8 million in 20 separate awards to 19 state health and pharmacy boards and departments to better track and share prescription drug information to help reduce drug abuse, misuse, and diversion.


News Release: Convicted of Illegally Selling Firearms and Underreporting More than $10 Million in Gross Receipts A Salt Lake County, Utah man was convicted today by a federal jury of one count of dealing in firearms without a license and five counts of filing 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 W. Huber for the District of Utah.


Federal Reserve Board invites public comment on proposed rule that would strengthen existing requirements and limitations on the physical commodity activities of financial holding companies

News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday invited public comment on a proposed rule that would strengthen existing requirements and limitations on the physical commodity activities of financial holding companies. The proposal would help reduce the catastrophic, legal, reputational, and financial risks that physical commodity activities pose to financial holding companies.


The US State Department published a one page notice on Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a one page notice on Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US State Department published a two page notice on Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Federal Reserve System published a one page notice on Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Interior Department published a one page notice on Sept. 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.