News published on Federal Newswire in May 2017

News from May 2017


News Release: WASHINGTON-U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and James Lankford (R-Okla.) introduced the bipartisan Federal Agency Customer Experience Act in order to roll back federal rules that made it difficult for agencies to get feedback from the public concerning their satisfaction with agencies’ performance.


News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - A federal grand jury in Albuquerque, N.M., returned an indictment yesterday afternoon charging Albuquerque resident Robert Arellano, 63, with 13 counts of violating the animal fighting prohibitions of the federal Animal Welfare Act, announced James D. Tierney, Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Jeffrey H. Wood, Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.


News Release: Today, SHAWN N. ANDERSON, Acting United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that defendant JERRY FRANCISCO, age 42, from Tamuning, was sentenced in District Court to a six month term of imprisonment, to be followed by six months of home detention, two...


Manchester Man Pleads Guilty To Federal Firearms Offense

News Release: Concord, N.H. - Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced that Christian Cherry, 33, previously of Manchester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of firearm.


News Release: The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and more than 4,200 of its law enforcement and community partners collected more unused prescription drugs than at any of the 12 previous National Prescription Drug Take Back Day events.


USDA Awards First Loans in the Rural Energy Savings Program

News Release: WASHINGTON, May 10, 2017 – Acting Deputy Under Secretary Roger Glendenning today announced that USDA is providing zero-interest loans to two rural energy providers to help business and residential customers lower energy use and costs.


News Release: A federal grand jury in Albuquerque, new Mexico returned an indictment yesterday charging Robert Arellano, 63, of Albuquerque, with 13 counts of violating the animal fighting prohibitions of the federal Animal Welfare Act, announced Acting U.S. Attorney James D. Tierney for the District of New Mexico, and Acting Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey H. Wood for the Department of Justice’s Environment and Natural Resources Division.


News Release: A federal grand jury returned an eighteen-count superseding indictment against Anthony Shelton, 19; Nigel Garrett, 21; Chancler Encalade, 20; and Cameron Ajiduah, 18, charging them with conspiring to cause bodily injury to persons because of the sexual orientation of those persons, the Justice Department’s ...


News Release: Three related return preparers in South Florida prepare false tax returns for their customers, according to a new civil lawsuit filed by the Justice Department. The suit filed in the Southern District of Florida asks the court to permanently bar Fred Pickett Jr. and his children, Jalisa Steele and Fred ...


News Release: Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced the initiation of new countervailing duty (CVD) and/or antidumping duty (AD) investigations of cold-drawn mechanical tubing from China, Germany, Italy, India, Korea and Switzerland.


Court upholds OSHA finding that railroad company violated Maine employee’s whistleblower rights

News Release: BOSTON – A federal appeals court has affirmed that Pan Am Railways, Inc., must pay $260,000 in punitive and compensatory damages to – and take corrective action on behalf of – an employee who was subjected to retaliation for filing a Federal Railroad Safety Act whistleblower complaint.


The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on May 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on May 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on May 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a two page notice on May 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.


The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on May 10, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.