News from December 2017
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on Dec. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Dec 18, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a two page notice on Dec. 18, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John Farley announced today that Judith Morale (formerly known as Judith Remo), 54, currently a resident of Webster, New York, has pleaded guilty to health care fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: LAKE CHARLES, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging a Fort Polk soldier with manufacturing and detonating a chemical weapon in the Kisatchie National Forest adjacent to the Fort Polk Army installation.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: National Park Service (NPS) Northeast Regional Director Gay Vietzke is pleased to announce Jonathan Meade as the region’s next associate regional director for resource stewardship and science. Since 2014, Meade has served as deputy regional director for Northeast Regional Office. Meade will begin this new assignment in January.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington has sentenced Prince George Kelly (36, Apollo Beach) to 5 years and 10 months in federal prison for possessing ammunition as a convicted felon. The Court also ordered him to serve three years of supervised release and to forfeit the ammunition seized in the offense.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: ELKO, Nev. - The California Trail Interpretive Center is presenting a temporary exhibit titled, “Whose Land is This?"
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal jury convicted a former police officer today of attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), a designated foreign terrorist organization, and obstruction of justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A federal grand jury has charged EUNJA VASQUEZ, 55, and LAWRENCE VASQUEZ, 61, of Edmond, Oklahoma, with Medicaid fraud, announced Mark A. Yancey, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma, and Mike Hunter, Oklahoma Attorney General.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Richard W. Moore of the Southern District of Alabama announces that United States District Court Senior Judge Callie V.S. Granade sentenced Eric Beard to 41 months in prison on Dec. 18, 2017. The defendant pled guilty to the charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Omar Faraj Saeed Al Hardan, the 25-year-old refugee who was born in Iraq and resided in Houston, has been ordered to federal prison for 16 years following his conviction of attempting to provide material support or resources to a designated foreign terrorist organization. He pleaded guilty Oct. 17, 2016.
By US DOT Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -- Today, the Ranking Democrats on the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure sent a letter to Secretary of the U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) Wilbur Ross and Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Mick Mulvaney offering their strong support for strengthening...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Gang-Affiliated Defendant Ran Heroin Distribution Operation in South Jamaica.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A doctor and his chiropractor son were sentenced to prison today for conspiring to defraud Medicare by using unqualified people to give physical therapy to Medicare recipients, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that Donald Jack Kilgore, age 67, of Porter, Oklahoma pled guilty to Felon In Possession Of Firearm And Ammunition, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - The U. S. Attorney’s Office reached a settlement agreement today with Young Shakespeare Players East (YSPE) resolving allegations that the theater company violated Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by failing to provide reasonable modifications to a child enrolled in the program and retaliating against another child for her advocacy.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: Gregory J. Haanstad, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that on Dec. 14, 2017, Manish Patel (age: 26) was sentenced to 38 months imprisonment, and ordered to pay $1,101,901.61 in restitution for committing wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Shreveport man who was previously convicted of two felonies pleaded guilty to possessing a loaded revolver.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will continue accepting 2016 OSHA Form 300A data through the Injury Tracking Application (ITA) until midnight on Dec. 31, 2017. OSHA will not take enforcement action against those employers who submit their reports after the Dec. 15, 2017, deadline but before Dec. 31, 2017, final entry date. Starting Jan. 1, 2018, the ITA will no longer accept the 2016 data.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 18, 2017
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who pleaded guilty to robbing an armored vehicle and stealing 18 firearms, including a silencer, from a gun store, was sentenced today to 63 months in prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Steven W. Myhre for the District of Nevada.
