News from May 2017
By Commerce News Now | May 26, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a seven page rule on May 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | May 26, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a five page rule on May 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | May 26, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on May 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | May 26, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a four page proposed rule on May 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | May 26, 2017
The US Agriculture Department published a three page proposed rule on May 26, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

By DOT News Wire | May 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today the U.S. Department of Transportation announced Deputy Secretary Jeffrey Rosen will serve as the Department’s Regulatory Reform Officer and Chairman of the Department’s Regulatory Reform Task Force (RRTF). The RRTF was formed earlier this year in accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order 13777, which directs each agency to establish an RRTF to make recommendations to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens.

By DOT News Wire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Grants Increase Production Efficiency and Support a Highly Skilled Workforce

By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - More than 45 members or associates of the Gangster Two-Six Nation street gang are facing federal or state charges for their alleged roles in dealing guns and drugs on Chicago’s South Side and surrounding suburbs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Brian Clayton Charles, 49, of Tucson, Ariz., made his initial appearance yesterday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico that charges him with assaulting a federal law enforcement officer and mailing threatening communications,.

By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: LUBBOCK, Texas - Rene Ortiz, of Lubbock, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Sam R. Cummings to 200 months in federal prison on a methamphetamine distribution conviction, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.

By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Agility Public Warehousing Co. KSC (Agility), a Kuwaiti company, has agreed to globally resolve criminal, civil, and administrative cases arising from allegations that Agility overcharged the United States when performing contracts with the Department of Defense (DOD) to supply food for U.S.

By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Ceradoy was convicted of possession of child pornography in 2005 and attempted sexual exploitation of a minor in 2014.

By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Ignacio Beato, age 46, of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, pled guilty today before United States District Judge James M. Munley to conspiracy to engage in monetary transactions through a financial institution, with funds that were the proceeds of wire fraud. Beato is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 31, 2017.

By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: SAN JOSE - Mario Cardenas was sentenced yesterday to 100 months in prison based on his conviction on charges of Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) conspiracy and use of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Defense Contractor Resolves Criminal, Civil and Administrative Liability Related to Food Contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Little Eagle, South Dakota, woman convicted of Theft of a Postal Money Order was sentenced on May 18, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Charles B. Kornmann.

By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: FOLSOM, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation prepared final environmental documents for an advanced meter system in the City of American Canyon located in Napa County. Reclamation proposes to provide the City with CALFED Water and Energy Efficiency Grant funds to install an advanced metering infrastructure...

By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: (HARTFORD, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent-in-Charge of the DEA’s New England Division, and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney today announced that Halby Lopez, also known as “Harv," 41, of New Haven, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny in Hartford to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By Interior Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: MORENO VALLEY, Calif. - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has initiated Stage III Fire Restrictions for BLM-managed public lands within Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, Imperial, Inyo, Kern, and San Diego counties. The restrictions will remain in effect until further notice.

By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that Jose Manuel Garcia Vargas, 41, was sentenced in federal court in Omaha on May 26, 2017, for receiving child pornography. The Honorable Robert F. Rossiter, Jr. sentenced Garcia Vargas to five years of imprisonment. There is no parole in the...