News published on Federal Newswire in April 2017

News from April 2017


The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page rule on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Labor Department published a one page rule on April 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation Announces Pacesetter Award Winners for 2016 Navigation Season

News Release: WASHINGTON – The U.S. Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation (SLSDC) today announced that six U.S. ports in the Great Lakes St. Lawrence Seaway System received the agency’s Robert J. Lewis Pacesetter Award for registering increases in international cargo tonnage shipped through their ports during the 2016 navigation season.


News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Ranking Member Claire McCaskill of Missouri on Wednesday requested a briefing from the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) on its growing operational demands and the resources it needs to succeed.


News Release: As part of National Park Week, Chamizal National Memorial will celebrate National Junior Ranger Day with special activities for families and kids of all ages from 9:45 am to 1 pm on Saturday, April 15th. During this annual event, in national parks across the country, Junior Rangers learn about what makes...


News Release: BOSTON - A man accused of a fraudulent $1.5 million real estate investment scheme in Quincy, Mass., and who had been a fugitive for 20 years in connection with an unrelated New York grand theft and larceny indictment, was arrested today in Delray Beach, Fla., on federal charges in connection with the Quincy scheme.


News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that THOMAS M. MURTHA, 61, of Newtown, has been charged by a federal criminal complaint with wire fraud related to his alleged theft of more than $900,000 from victims.


Statement of Acting U.S. Attorney Joon H. Kim on the Conviction of William T. Walters for Insider Trading

News Release: “Today, Billy Walters lost his bet that he could cheat the securities markets on a massive scale and get away with it scot-free. As a unanimous jury swiftly found, Walters received inside information about Dean Foods for years - directly from one its board members - and illegally traded on it, netting...


News Release: Two Arrested for Sex Trafficking of Children.


Middlesex County, New Jersey, Man Charged With Theft Of Trade Secret Materials From Dupont

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Middlesex County, New Jersey, man has been charged with stealing computer files containing trade secrets from a DuPont manufacturing facility in Parlin, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.


Reclamation Releases Final Environmental Documents for the Proposed Inclusion of the Gilbert Property into Contra Costa Water District

News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation has released the Final Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impact for the proposed Contra Costa Water District Gilbert Property Inclusion Project. The inclusion of the Gilbert Property into Contra Costa WD’s Central Valley Project service area will allow the development to receive Project water.


News Release: Michael ‘The Situation’ Sorrentino and His Brother, Marc Sorrentino, Indicted on Additional Charges Including Tax Evasion, Structuring and Falsifying Records.


Local Firearms Dealer Convicted for Possessing Unregistered Destructive Device

News Release: G.F. Peterman, III, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, announces that Mark Mann, owner and operator of Mann's World, LLC d/b/a The Rifleman, was convicted by a jury in federal court on April 6, 2017, of illegal possession of a destructive device, a Finnish Lahti 20mm anti-tank rifle, before the Honorable Marc T. Treadwell, United States District Judge, in Macon, Georgia.


Conway Man Pleads Guilty To Fentanyl Trafficking

News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that William Bergeron 26, of Conway, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court on Thursday, April 6, 2017, to possessing fentanyl with the intent to distribute.