News from January 2017
By DOT News Wire | Jan 9, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on Jan. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 9, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page notice on Jan. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on Jan. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jan 9, 2017
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on Jan. 9, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: DOT Designates 18 “Beyond Traffic Innovation Centers” to Study Transportation Challenges
By DOT News Wire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO – The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit Administration (FTA) today announced approximately $1.07 billion in federal grant funds to the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) for the first phase of the Red and Purple Modernization Project. The project will reconstruct a section of the rail lines on the north side of Chicago in order to expand capacity on one of the busiest corridors of the CTA system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dr. Yusuf Siddiqui, 72, of Williamsville, NY, pleaded guilty to obtaining controlled substances by fraud before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Victor Lopez-Mejia, of Honduras, has pleaded guilty to re-entering the United States after having been deported previously.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - FBI agents in Texas today arrested the former controller for a Birmingham-based fitness center franchise on charges she defrauded that company and a subsequent retail store out of more than $100,000, announced U.S. Attorney Joyce White Vance and FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger C. Stanton.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah - The Red Cliffs Campground will close temporarily Jan. 9 while the potable water system in the Bureau of Land Management’s Red Cliffs Recreation Area is upgraded.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: A Jamaican man pled guilty today, in federal court in Cedar Rapids, to participating in a mail fraud scheme that defrauded an elderly Illinois couple. Ricardo Fredrick Smith a/k/a “Rickey Ricardo Smith" a/k/a “Ricky" a/k/a “Stinger", 39, from St. James Parish, Jamaica, was convicted of one count of Mail...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: (BUFFALO, N.Y. - - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge James J. Hunt, Drug Enforcement (DEA) New York Division announced today that Dr. Yusuf Siddiqui, 72, of Williamsville, NY, pleaded guilty to obtaining controlled substances by fraud before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of four years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A Rockwall, Texas, man, Richard Deon Murrell, was sentenced last week by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 190 months in federal prison, following his guilty plea in April 2016 to his role in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: MILWAUKEE - The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Milwaukee Police Department are looking for the public’s help to identify a suspect in the attached photo/video who may be responsible for the BP Gas Station arson during the Sherman Park riots Aug. 13, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: BOSTON -A federal jury in Boston sentenced Gary Lee Sampson, 57, to death in connection with a murdering spree in July 2001.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Oliver Schmidt, a Volkswagen (VW) engineer, was charged in a criminal complaint unsealed today for his alleged role in a nearly decade-long conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and U.S. Volkswagen customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in hundreds of thousands of Volkswagen “clean diesel" vehicles.
By State Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, made the following statement regarding yesterday’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: Release Date: Jan. 10, 2017. Contact: Brooke Nevitt, Lead Ranger. Email address: e-mail us. Phone: 670-234-7207, Ext 2020. Improvements and Repairs at American Memorial Park. Park officials would like to inform the public that construction efforts are currently taking place around the park to make improvements...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Lenin Gutierrez, 39, of Cranston, was ordered detained in federal custody today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with bank robbery. It is alleged that Gutierrez robbed a Citizens Bank branch office inside a Stop & Shop supermarket in Johnston on Dec. 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 9, 2017
News Release: HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - An Ohio man who was responsible for numerous overdoses in Huntington in August 2016 pleaded guilty today, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Bruce Lamar Griggs, also known as “Ben" and “Benz," 22, of Akron, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin.
