News published on Federal Newswire in March 2017

News from March 2017


The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on March 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on March 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a three page proposed rule on March 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on March 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on March 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Commerce Department published a one page notice on March 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Agriculture Department published a three page notice on March 6, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Christie Easter, 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Toheeb Odoffin, 28, of Chicago, each pleaded guilty today to charges related to their respective roles in a fraud scheme involving “Mystery Shoppers.".


News Release: Attorney Pleads Guilty for Role in Multi-Million Dollar Scheme to Fraudulently Obtain Copyright Infringement Settlements from Victims Who Downloaded Pornographic Movies.


News Release: Nevada Liquor Store Owner Sentenced To Prison For Conspiring To Defraud The United States And Tax Evasion.


Bergen County Doctor Convicted of Taking Bribes in Test-Referral Scheme with New Jersey Clinical Lab

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A family doctor practicing in Bergen County, New Jersey, was convicted today of all 10 counts of an indictment charging him with 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, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.


News Release: Spokane-Michael C. Ormsby, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Washington, announced that Ian Christopher Evans, age 31, of Orville, Washington, was sentenced on Feb. 28, 2017, after having previously pleaded guilty on Dec. 1, 2016 to Distribution of Child Pornography. Senior United...


Donna Young Sentenced for Bankruptcy Misrepresentation

News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Donna Young, 68, of Wilmington, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington following her guilty plea to a charge that she made false statements under penalty of perjury in a bankruptcy case she filed. U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III placed Young on one year of probation.


Passed in the House: Brady Bill Blocks Obama-era Regulation

News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-TX) today released the following statement after the House voted to pass his legislation that stops an Obama-era Labor Department regulation on unemployment insurance benefits...


News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury returned a two count indictment charging Eli Clark, 25, of Buffalo, NY, with possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine and maintaining a drug-involved premises. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $5,000,000 fine.


Smithton Resident Sentenced for Sexual Exploitation of a Minor and Possession of Prepubescent Child Pornography

News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on Friday, March 3, 2017, Kyle W. Oberg, 40, Smithton, IL, was sentenced on two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of possession of visual depictions of prepubescent minors engaged...


News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Leavenworth man who bragged on the Internet about sexually abusing a 4-year-old girl was sentenced Monday to 20 years in federal prison for distributing child pornography, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.


Olyphant Man Guilty of Attempted Enticement of a Minor for Sexual Purposes

News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Brian LaChance, age 27, of Olyphant, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty on March 3, 2017, before U.S. Magistrate Judge Joseph F. Saporito, Jr, to using a facility of interstate commerce to attempt to entice a minor to engage in illegal sexual conduct.


News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The California Desert District Advisory Council (DAC) seeks to establish a Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP) Implementation Subgroup to assist the BLM in the implementation of the DRECP in the California Desert. The subgroup will provide input and advice regarding...


Multi-state drug trafficking organization dismantled

News Release: Defendants indicted on drug and criminal enterprise charges for bringing kilograms of cocaine and methamphetamine to Central Indiana.