News from January 2017
By DOT News Wire | Jan 4, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Jan. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jan 4, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on Jan. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Gazette | Jan 4, 2017
The US Justice Department published a five page rule on Jan. 4, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: 2017 Blue Room Lecture Series Launched: Public Talks on History, Art,.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: BELLEVILLE, Ill. - Federal investigators proposed penalties of $214,782 to an Illinois roofing contractor after a recent inspection at a home construction site in Troy found workers exposed to fall hazards. Statistics show falls cause four of every 10 deaths in the construction industry.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Troy A. Paul, 48, of Nampa was sentenced today in United States District Court to 30 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for access with intent to view child pornography, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Paul pleaded guilty on Aug. 16, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - A federal grand jury has charged James Denney, 30, of Cincinnati, with two counts related to the promotion of child pornography in an indictment returned in Cincinnati.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Glen Jean, West Virginia - The rich heritage of southern West Virginia is celebrated through the winning photographs in the 2016 Hidden History Photo Contest exhibit. These history-based photographs taken by West Virginia photographers are currently on display at the Hatfield and McCoy Convention and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), and James O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), announced...
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Battle Mountain, NV. -- The Bureau of Land Management, Battle Mountain District (Tonopah Field Office) intends to conduct slash pile burning in Nye County around the community of Ione and in Esmeralda County near the community of Lida. The burns will serve as continuations of the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fuels reduction projects in those areas and are necessary for the enhancement of fuel breaks designed for community protection in the event of a wildfire.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that MELVIN STEEN, a/k/a “SKEET," age 35, of Slidell, and RYAN ELLENDER, age 36, of New Orleans, pled guilty today to one count of conspiring to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine.
By Commerce Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: NIST is frequently asked to provide unusual, sometimes downright exotic, measurements and calibrations in support of U.S. commerce. But even old hands in the Fluid Metrology Group were surprised last fall when they were called into a dispute over the metrics of maple sap.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: JAN 04 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced that Manuel (34) of New York City, was sentenced to serve 15 years in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute oxycodone pills and failing to appear in Court.
By Interior Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: As part of the President’s Centennial Initiative: ‘Every Kid in a Park,’ Shiloh rangers and volunteers presented 86 programs to 1,806 fourth grade students over a 20 day period in the Spring and Fall of 2016. Programs included a Civil War era “Camp of Instruction," and the exploration of Shiloh’s Native American past. All programs were presented on site and allowed the children to spend the majority of their trip outdoors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN VOLOSHIN, 60, formerly of New Haven and Woodbridge, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to one count of wire fraud and also admitted to violating a condition of his federal supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former Joplin, Mo., police officer was sentenced in federal court today for violating the civil rights of a woman he arrested by attempting to get her case dismissed in exchange for a sexual relationship.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad announced that on January 4, 2017, a federal grand jury returned an indictment against Darren M. Warner, also known as, “Krazy" (age: 54) of Bellevue, Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: A North Royalton woman was charged in federal court for embezzling approximately $2 million from Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Cleveland, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Anthony Williams, age 55, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 86 months’ imprisonment by United States District Court Judge Yvette Kane for unlawfully distributing prescription painkillers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 4, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted six members of a Chicago street gang known as the Hobos of participating in a criminal organization that engaged in narcotics distribution and committed murders, attempted murders and armed robberies.
