News from August 2017
By Commerce News Now | Aug 8, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a three page notice on Aug. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Aug 8, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Aug. 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: PHMSA Announces Pipeline and HazMat Safety Grant Funding Opportunities. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration published Notices of Funding Opportunity for the Hazardous Materials Community Safety Grant (CST) and its Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) for pipeline safety. The CST ...
By DOT News Wire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Transportation has provided a list of 10 proposed FY 2017 FASTLANE Small Project grant awards totaling $78.88 million to the authorizing committees of jurisdiction for a 60-day Congressional review period.
By DOT News Wire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Freight by Mode since the Recession
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: TEXARKANA, Texas - A 44-year-old Texarkana man has pleaded guilty to federal violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Visitors will have the opportunity to enjoy the August 21 partial Solar Eclipse. A solar eclipse happens when the moon casts a shadow on the Earth, blocking the sun’s light. With a solar scope or with protective eyewear, visitors can safely view the eclipse.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On Aug. 2, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the formation of the Opioid Fraud and Abuse Detection Unit, a new Department of Justice pilot program to utilize data to help combat the devastating opioid crisis that is ravaging families and communities across America. This...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A superseding indictment was unsealed today charging Arash Amiri Abedian, 31, and Danial Jeloudar, 27, with aggravated identity theft; wire fraud; and criminal conspiracy and other charges relating to access device fraud, unauthorized access to, and theft of information from, computers, and threatening to damage a computer.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - An East Side Money Gang member was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for trafficking crack cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Mark Heltzel, age 53, of Dallas, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on August 4, 2017, by Senior United States District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo to 18 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to commit money laundering.
By Interior Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: On Friday, August 25th from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., Tumacácori will host a Family Game Night in celebration of the National Park Service’s 101st birthday. “Tumacácori is all about families, past and present," says Superintendent Bob Love, “And families play games.".
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - LYLE LIVESAY, 29, of Delray Beach, Florida, and BRANT HOLLOWAY, 36, of Del City, Oklahoma, have both pled guilty to conspiring to commit bank fraud against seven financial institutions, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: OMAHA, NE-On August 8, 2017, four suspects who were convicted of a Sept. 10, 2016 robbery of a U.S. Bank location in the Omaha area were sentenced for their roles in carrying out the robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican national was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for passport fraud and identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: PHH Corp. PHH Mortgage Corp. and PHH Home Loans (collectively, PHH) have agreed to pay the United States $74,453,802 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly originating and underwriting mortgage loans insured by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s...
By State Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Chief Judge Kristi K. DuBose sentenced Sophia McGadney on August 4, 2017 to 5 years on probation and ordered her to pay the total amount of loss for the theft. McGadney was charged with violating 18 USC § 641, Theft of Government Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that the husband of a former St. Joseph, Mo., business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today on a charge related to a nearly $1.5 million tax fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 8, 2017
News Release: PHH Agrees to Pay Over $74 Million to Resolve Alleged False Claims Act Liability Arising from Mortgage Lending.
