News from July 2017
By DOT News Wire | Jul 28, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By State News Post | Jul 28, 2017
The US State Department published a one page notice on July 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 28, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on July 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 28, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 28, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on July 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: PHMSA Call for Public Comment on International Standards on the Transportation of Dangerous Goods. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced today its Federal Register (FR) Notice asking for public comment on issues being considered ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - Acting United States Attorney Corey R. Amundson announced that LUCILLE WILLIAMS, age 54, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Shelly D. Dick to stealing funds of a Federal agency, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 641. During the guilty...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Princeton heroin dealer pleaded guilty today to a federal drug charge, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Terrance Raheem Simmons, 41, entered his guilty plea to distribution of heroin.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - The former Chief Accounting Officer for a Memphis business conglomerate was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of JEREMY DAVID MOUNT, 41, for producing and receiving child pornography. MOUNT, who pleaded guilty on February 9, 2017, was sentenced on July 27, 2017, before U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, Minn.

By DOL Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate HELP Committee, today released the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision to delay oversight over certain tobacco products...

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Three Florida residents were found guilty by a Miami jury on July 26, 2017, for participating in a sweepstakes mail fraud scheme.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: On July 26, 2017, Craig Sizer, 49, of Miami, Florida, was sentenced by United States District Judge Marcia G. Cooke to 180 months in prison for orchestrating two investment fraud schemes that targeted elderly and unsophisticated investors throughout the nation and defrauded over 700 victims out of $23 million. Sizer previously pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud.

By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Kevin Wayne Taylor (40), a resident of Phenix City, Alabama and former Lee County Deputy Sheriff, was sentenced on Thursday, July 27, 2017 to 240 months in federal prison for receipt and possession of child pornography, announced A. Clark Morris, Acting United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Defendant previously convicted of multiple sex offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - This week, Alvin Edison Moreno, 53, of Sells, Ariz., a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins to 37 months in prison. Moreno had previously pleaded guilty to one count of abusive sexual contact of a minor. The minor victim is also a member of the Tohono O’odham Nation. Moreno will be placed on lifetime federal supervision and be required to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

By US DOT Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: This article by Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Bill Shuster (R-PA) appears in the next issue of The Air & Space Lawyer.

By Commerce Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chairman Pat Tiberi (R-OH) announced a new initiative to deliver relief from the regulations and mandates that impede innovation, drive up costs, and ultimately stand in the way of delivering better care for Medicare beneficiaries. Working...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: Lori Desiere, 45, a former Spring Hill, Tennessee resident, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury in Nashville, Tenn., and charged with seven counts of wire fraud for executing a $120,000 fraud scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 28, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A Wood County man pleaded guilty yesterday to a federal methamphetamine crime, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. Joseph Daniel Mills, 39, of Walker, entered his guilty plea to possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine.