News from July 2017
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
The US Interior Department published a two page proposed rule on July 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jul 19, 2017
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on July 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Jul 19, 2017
The US Agriculture Department published a two page notice on July 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON – The FHWA today released its latest National Highway Construction Cost Index, a quarterly estimate of the rising cost of domestic highway construction and maintenance over time. It is the first time the Index – now called “NHCCI 2.0” – has been published since the agency made major methodological revisions to improve its accuracy.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS, WY - Significant resource damage and visitor safety concerns from off-trail travel on the hills south of Grand Prismatic Spring led the park to construct and recently open the Grand Prismatic Spring Overlook Trail. To alleviate traffic congestion, safety concerns, and resource impacts, the park also made a parking area near the Fairy Falls Trailhead at Midway Geyser Basin. Parking is very limited at this popular destination.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Bureau of Reclamation Acting Commissioner Alan Mikkelsen announced that Ruth Welch has joined Reclamation as its director, Policy and Administration. As director, Welch oversees the development, formulation, evaluation and implementation of Reclamation's programmatic, human resources, and civil rights laws, regulations, policy and related matters affecting its mission objectives including programmatic internal controls. This also includes the WaterSMART Program.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - John Richard Blazer, 71, of Marion, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 33 months in prison for orchestrating multiple investment fraud schemes. Blazer pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in December 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - TERRANCE TRENT MOSLEY, 29, of Cleveland, Ohio, was sentenced today to 480 months in prison by the Honorable David L. Russell, announced Mark A. Yancey, United States Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Mr. Chairman, thank you for holding this hearing. I also would like to thank our witnesses for taking time to be with us today.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Last month, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) conducted its 400th foreign fugitive arrest of the fiscal year. Since Oct. 1, 2009, ERO has arrested and removed more than 1,700 foreign fugitives who were sought in their native countries for crimes such as homicide, rape, and kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Jacobsen pleaded guilty today to wire fraud and money laundering charges in connection with a scheme to use sham companies and collusive lawsuits to create the appearance that mortgage liens had been invalidated, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The former general counsel of VO Financial Corp. was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for conspiring to obstruct justice in a federal criminal case tried in 2013, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas returned a one-count indictment last week charging Bilal Ahmed Khaleeq, a Dallas attorney and his assistant, Amna Cheema with conspiracy to commit marriage fraud, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Fayetteville, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, and Tracey D. Montaño, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, announced that Lisa Van Genderen, age 53 of Rogers, Arkansas, was sentenced today to three years of probation...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - A Phenix City man was arrested today after being indicted by a federal grand jury for conspiring to file fraudulent refund claims, mail fraud, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, announced Acting U.S. Attorney A. Clark Morris for the Middle District of Alabama, and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Moses Okot, 29, of Portland was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 10 years in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Okot pled guilty on March 29, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The former general counsel of VO Financial Corp. was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for conspiring to obstruct justice in a federal criminal case tried in 2013, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated that Yancy Kevon Wilson, age 23, and Randy Jones, Jr., age 23, both of Kershaw County, were sentenced yesterday afternoon in federal court for various charges stemming from the June 23, 2015, armed robbery of Sandhills Bank in Bethune, South Carolina.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Shane Lopez, age 22, of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to five years in prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge James M. Munley, for his role in a heroin trafficking ring that operated in Schuylkill County from 2012 through May 2016.
By State Newswire | Jul 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) today released the following statement after a classified briefing on the Trump administration’s efforts to defeat ISIS.
