News from December 2017
By Labor Gazette | Dec 6, 2017
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Dec. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Labor Gazette | Dec 6, 2017
The US Labor Department published a one page notice on Dec. 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Defendants planned to use stolen technology for competing startup with offices in China and the U.S.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Thomas Charles Bardrick, age 21, of Fort Smith, Arkansas, was sentenced to 3 years probation for Interstate Transportation Of Stolen Property, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 2314 and 2.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM CARL BARTLETT, 65, of Eastpoint, Florida, formerly of Cheshire, Connecticut, pleaded guilty today before U.S. Magistrate Judge William I. Garfinkel in Bridgeport to two counts of illegally transporting protected wildlife.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Washington - Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.V.), and U.S. Representatives Elijah Cummings (MD-07) and Maxine Waters (CA-43) will hold a press conference TOMORROW, Thursday, December 7 to discuss the importance of research funding and highlight...
By USDA Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
Release: Washington - FAS Program Announcement FAS-ESR-097-17, issued at 9:00 a.m. on Nov. 30, which announced export sales of 525,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to China in the 2017/2018 marketing year was issued in error. The correct announcement is as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A local tax return preparer who managed a tax preparation business in Dallas, who admitted to filing fraudulent tax returns, was sentenced today, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Kernersville man was recently sentenced to 70 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to bank fraud, announced Sandra J. Hairston, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
Release: DULLES, Va. - A Loudoun County, Virginia, man was caught with a loaded handgun at Washington Dulles International Airport Dec. 5 after a Transportation Security Administration officer detected him trying to carry the semi-automatic weapon past a security checkpoint. The.45 caliber handgun was loaded with 13 bullets.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: Victim Was a Visiting Artist from North Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the United States is seeking a warrant to seize one of the antiquities trafficked by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a gold ring that was identified in its previously filed civil complaint and that is believed to have been confiscated by authorities in Turkey.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on December 5, 2017, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against James A. Huskisson, also known as Jason Desantes (age: 45) of Ozone Park, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An internal medicine doctor with a practice in West New York, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, N.J., its president and numerous associates, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Four Houston area men have been sentenced for their involvement in a string of robberies of La Michoacana establishments that occurred during the Christmas 2015 season, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Billie Hawkins, and Laroderick Martin, both 21, Jirron Curtis, 22, and Marcus Malbro, 19, pleaded guilty at varying times between November 2016 and May 2017 to aiding and abetting two robberies and one count of either discharging or brandishing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ANDREW SACCO, 44, of New Haven and formerly of Durham, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 48 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for participating in a large-scale fencing operation. Judge Shea also ordered SACCO to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Jerry Defazio, age 39, of Archbald, Pennsylvania, was charged in a criminal information with providing and attempting to provide contraband, including illegal drugs, to inmates at the Lackawanna County Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Mexican national riding on a bus passing through Kansas City, Mo., was indicted by a federal grand jury today after law enforcement officers found 23 pounds of methamphetamine in his carry-on bags.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 46-year-old local man has been sentenced to prison for his conviction of distribution of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Ronald Eugene Lowrey Jr. pleaded guilty July 6, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 6, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Reclamation and the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) today released a beta version of an updated water resources and water supply reliability planning tool for review and comment. Water managers in California use the model - known as CalSim - to examine operations of the interconnected Central Valley Project (CVP) and State Water Project (SWP) given assumptions for hydrology conditions, project facilities, and regulatory criteria.
