News from June 2017
By DOT News Wire | Jun 20, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a four page rule on June 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 20, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on June 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jun 20, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a three page rule on June 20, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A family doctor practicing in Bergen County, New Jersey, was sentenced today to 41 months in prison for accepting bribes in exchange for test referrals as part of a long-running and elaborate scheme operated by Biodiagnostic Laboratory Services LLC (BLS), of Parsippany, New Jersey, its president and numerous associates, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Juan Carlos Quezada-Lara, 31, a previously deported Mexican national illegally residing in Albuquerque, N.M., made his initial appearance today in federal court on a criminal complaint charging him with violating federal firearms laws. Quezada-Lara remains in custody pending a preliminary hearing and detention hearing, both of which are scheduled for tomorrow.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee released the following statement on the U.S. Department of Education’s guidance to implement year-round Pell Grants. As ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee dealing with the U.S. Department of Education, Senator Murray worked to restore year-round Pell Grants in the bipartisan FY17 appropriations bill passed in May.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Mission, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Possession with Intent to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A Guatemalan national who has been previously removed from the United States three times, and who is wanted by police in Champaign, Illinois, for allegedly causing a fatal crash while driving under the influence on New Year’s Day, was added Monday to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Most Wanted list.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - As the Department of Justice continues its efforts to fulfill President Trump’s commitment to reducing violent crime in America, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced today that 12 cities are joining the Department’s newly organized National Public Safety Partnership (PSP). The announcement ...
By DOE Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: A free webinar called “What Energy Project Is Right for My Tribe?" will take place Wednesday, June 28, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Mountain Time. This webinar is part of the 2017 Expanding Tribal Energy Development Through Partnerships webinar series sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Indian Energy and the Western Area Power Administration.
By State Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel (D-NY), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the Chairman Emeritus of the Committee, today announced the release of a new U.S. Government strategy on future engagement with the Caribbean. The...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - On Thursday, June 16, 2017, a grand jury brought an eight-count indictment against Sacramento residents Latomba Bishop, 32; Joshua Yadon, 33, and Norman Thompson, 36, charging them with conspiracy to obtain mail by fraud, access device fraud, mail fraud, and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - - Troy Derby, Assistant Special Agent-in-(ASAC) of DEA’s Kansas City District Office, announced today that Nelson Olmeda, also known as “Diego," 27, of Rosenberg, Texas, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool, District Court Judge of the United States District Court, Western District of Missouri, to 20 years in federal prison without parole. Olmeda was also ordered to forfeit to the government $21,302.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: ST. LOUIS - - James Shroba, Special Agent-in-(SAC) of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) St. Louis Division Office, announced today that that three Nixa, Mo., residents have pleaded guilty in federal court to their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, which resulted in the murder of Mexican national, ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Juan Carlos Quezada-Lara, 31, a previously deported Mexican national illegally residing in Albuquerque, N.M., made his initial appearance today in federal court on a criminal complaint charging him with violating federal firearms laws. Quezada-Lara remains in custody pending a preliminary hearing and detention hearing, both of which are scheduled for tomorrow.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: On Thursday, June 22, at 10:00 a.m., the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, chaired by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), will hold a hearing to examine student safety in the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Job Corps program. The hearing will take place in room 2175 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: Majority of images and videos depict children between the ages of five and 10-years-old.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Riverside, California, man today admitted his role in a conspiracy to steal 94,000 credit and debit cards from customers at approximately 80 Michaels’ Stores and use that information to make fraudulent withdrawals from the customers’ bank accounts, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Garden Grove man was arraigned this afternoon on an indictment that charges him with illegally importing a large shipment of a highly regulated chemical compound known as R-22 under the pretense that he was actually bringing into the United States a safe refrigerant that does not destroy the ozone layer.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 20, 2017
News Release: EL CENTRO, Calif. - A 59-year-old Coachella Valley high school teacher is facing felony state child sexual exploitation charges for allegedly contacting a minor under the age of 14 with the intent to commit sexual and lewd offenses.
