News from May 2017
By DOT News Wire | May 10, 2017
News Release: March 2017 Freight Transportation Services Index (TSI)
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: With the increase in dust storms, scientists have also documented a spike in Valley fever, an infectious disease caught by inhaling a soil-dwelling fungus found primarily in the Southwest.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Ronald Eugene Robinson, 62, of Tulsa, pled guilty to Accessing with Intent to View Child Pornography, announced Loretta F. Radford, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma. Chief United States District Court Judge Gregory K. Frizzell will sentence Robinson on Aug. 10, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal jury found Certified Public Accountant Gregory N. Cason, 45, of Morgantown, West Virginia, guilty of tax fraud today, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging a Newport News man with the armed robbery of a local business in July 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that WILLIAM LIEBERMAN, 41, of Boca Raton, Florida, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to conspiracy and tax offenses stemming from his role in a securities fraud scheme.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: HARKERS ISLAND, NC - The Cape Lookout Lighthouse public climbing season begins Tuesday, May 16, 2017. The park is seeking volunteers who can assist with leading tours of the lighthouse and orient park visitors during the summer. The current lighthouse, lit in 1859, serves as a beacon for the region and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced Theodore Gerald Reiss, age 81, of Halethorpe, Maryland today to 90 months in prison, followed by a lifetime of supervised release, for distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Yesterday afternoon, Christopher E. Creek, 56, of Champaign, IL, pled guilty to a charge of bank fraud in federal court in Benton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. The charge arose from Creek’s participation as a developer for the construction of an apartment complex in Carbondale, IL, known as the Pointe at SIU.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that DUSTY ALLEN DRYWATER, age 34, of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 168 months imprisonment and 5 years of supervised release for DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 846, 841(a)(1), and 841(b)(1)(B); and for FELON IN POSSESSION OF A FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2) & 2.
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MAY 10, 2017 - According to new U.S. Census Bureau data, voter turnout increased to 65.3 percent for non-Hispanic whites, but decreased to 59.6 percent for non-Hispanic blacks in the 2016 presidential election (Figure 2). This compared to 2012, when more non-Hispanic blacks (66.6 percent) voted than non-Hispanic whites (64.1 percent) for the first time in this series.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MAY 10 - NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that that George Kinney, 34, of Plainfield was arrested yesterday and charged in a criminal complaint with distributing fentanyl.
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - During a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing today, the Committee’s top-ranking Democrat, Claire McCaskill, highlighted the Missouri National Guard’s innovative efforts to strengthen Missouri’s and the country’s cybersecurity. McCaskill invited witness Kevin Keeney, a captain in Missouri’s National Guard and who in his civilian life is director of cyber incident response at a Fortune 200 company, to testify at the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Elhadj Barry, age 32, a resident alien originally from Guinea, was indicted on May 9, 2017, by a federal grand jury for conspiracy to use fraudulent credit cards and failure to appear in court.
By Homeland Newswire | May 10, 2017
Release: LIBERAL, Kan. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has installed the latest checkpoint screening technology at Liberal Mid-America Regional Airport (LBL).
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Abingdon, VIRGINIA - An Ohio woman, who conspired with an inmate at the United States Penitentiary in Lee County, Virginia (USP-Lee) to smuggle methamphetamine into USP-Lee, was sentenced yesterday, Acting United States Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Beginning Monday, Olympic National Park crews will start work on Boulder Creek Trail which begins at the end of the Olympic Hot Springs Road in the Elwha Valley. This project involves the use of heavy equipment for the demolition and removal of the Crystal Creek bridge and installation of an alternate...
By Commerce Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Elijah E. Cummings, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued the following statement after President Donald Trump abruptly fired Federal Bureau of Investigations Director James Comey...
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury has convicted a Chicago dermatologist on fraud charges for billing health-insurance programs for purported pre-cancerous treatments that were not medically necessary.
By DOJ Newswire | May 10, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging five individuals and a Virginia-based company with unlawful cigarette smuggling, Assistant United States Attorney, Criminal Chief Randolph J. Bernard announced today.
