News from March 2017
By DOT News Wire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has declared Georgia-licensed truck driver Christopher M. Speyrer to be an imminent hazard to public safety and has ordered him not to operate any commercial motor vehicle (CMV) in interstate commerce. Speyrer was served the federal order on Mar. 10, 2017.
By DOT News Wire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: National Transportation Noise Map
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Israel Brito-Rodriguez, 49, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, pleaded guilty yesterday to conspiracy to defraud the United States, announced Jack Smith, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: The 2016 Centennial Year of the National Park Service was a banner year for the service as a whole and for William Howard Taft National Historic Site in particular. Here at the Taft House, we welcomed 30,723 visitors, an increase of almost 26% over 2015 and the largest visitation in the history of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - An Overland Park man pleaded guilty Monday to distributing child pornography on the Internet while posing as a 46-year-old woman, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - An East Liverpool, Ohio woman was indicted today by a federal grand jury sitting in Martinsburg for allegedly stealing from her employer, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Anthony Margarito Berumen, 32, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 42 months in prison followed by six years of supervised release for his conviction on methamphetamine trafficking charges.
By US DOT Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: The FAA today released its annual Aerospace Forecast Report Fiscal Years 2017 to 2037 , which projects sustained and continued growth in nearly every aspect of air transportation from general aviation private flying to large commercial airline passenger levels.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - A federal judge today delivered verdicts against four defendants charged with misdemeanor trespassing; tampering with government vehicles and equipment; and destruction and removal of government property during the 41-day armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: During the National Park Service’s centennial year in 2016, visitors logged a record-breaking 331 million visits and spent more than 1.4 billion hours enjoying NPS sites nationwide, according to official numbers announced by the National Park Service last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Marc T. Woodley., age 32, of Plattsburgh, New York, was sentenced today to 16 months in prison following his conviction for unlawfully possessing a shotgun.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Peter J. Messitte sentenced Travis Lee, age 31, of La Plata, Maryland, today to 75 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for possession of unauthorized access devices and aggravated identity theft, as well as violating his supervised release in a previous credit card fraud case.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Louis Frances Bradley, age 66, of Baltimore, Maryland, pleaded guilty on March 20, 2017, to production of child pornography. Bradley has four previous state convictions on charges related to the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - One resident of Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of violating federal narcotics laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Defendants Forfeit $100,000; Pay to Destroy Big Blue Cockfighting Venue.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 13-count superseding indictment charging Oliver Kimmons, 49, of Lockport, NY, with possession and distribution of heroin and fentanyl, maintaining a drug premises, and sex trafficking. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Larry Valadez, 34, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 69 months in prison for his conviction on methamphetamine and heroin trafficking charges. Valadez will be on supervised release for four years following his prison sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: Also Charged with Defrauding Nursing Home, Family Friends.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: The Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development, chaired by Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-KY), held a hearing today to discuss reauthorization of the Higher Education Act (HEA), focusing on ways to streamline and simplify federal student aid.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 21, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), Chairman of the Senate Aging Committee, today reintroduced the Save Access to a Valuable Investment Needed to Generate Savings (SAVINGS) ...
