News from May 2017
By DOL Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: MILTON, Fla. - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has issued a dozen citations and proposed $226,431 in fines following its investigation into the Nov. 29, 2016, death of a 26-year-old machine operator at a Pensacola-area electrical cable manufacturer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned a 14-count indictment charging Tracy Bankston, 50, of Buffalo, NY, with conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine, cocaine, butyryl fentanyl, and marijuana. The defendant was also charged with ...
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Moose,WY--Grand Teton National Park is hosting a new exhibit opening for Living Traditions, Reflections of the Past, on Friday, June 2, at the Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center from 3:30-5 p.m. The exhibit opening will include a presentation by National Park Service Ranger and collector of American Indian art Laine Thom at 4:15 p.m. followed by refreshments sponsored by Grand Teton Association.
By DOL Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) -Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, released the following statement on reports of a leaked interim final rule the Office of Management and Budget is considering that would allow employers to claim broad...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Bryan Fish, age 22, of Schenectady, New York, pled guilty today to two counts of making false declarations before a federal grand jury investigating an arson that killed four people in Schenectady.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Clarence C. Garretson, age 66, of Van Buren, Arkansas, was sentenced today to a term of LIFE in federal prison for his conviction on one count of transporting a minor in interstate commerce...
By US DOT Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the general aviation (GA) community’s national #FlySafe campaign is designed to educate GA pilots about the best practices to calculate and predict aircraft performance and to operate within established aircraft limitations.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Earlier today, Samuel Mebiame, a dual citizen of Gabon and France, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to pay bribes to senior government officials across Africa, in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA).
By Homeland Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: NEW YORK - More than two dozen members of a Bronx drug trafficking organization were arrested Wednesday following a joint operation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) New York, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in New York, and the New York City Police Department (NYPD).
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: The former CEO of garbage hauler Rizzo Environmental Services (RES), Charles B. “Chuck" Rizzo, 46, of Bloomfield Hills, was indicted today on five counts of bribery and three counts of conspiracy to commit bribery, in connection with garbage contracts in Clinton, Macomb, and Chesterfield townships, Acting United States Attorney Daniel L. Lemisch announced.
By Commerce Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Wednesday, June 7, 2017, to consider a number of pending nominations. The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Brent Roaix, 33, of Lewiston, Maine, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to robbing a federally insured credit union.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Gerren Johnson and William Jackson have been arraigned on federal charges of dealing in firearms without a license, smuggling goods from the United States to other countries, and illegal delivery of firearms to a common carrier. The defendants allegedly exported guns illegally to buyers all over the world.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that three inmates at the U.S. Penitentiary in Pollock, La., were sentenced last week for the assault of another inmate that resulted in injuries requiring hospitalization and several surgeries.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Alabama Man Sentenced to Prison for Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns Using Stolen IDs.
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Of Drug Trafficking Charges. FORT WAYNE - Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, Clifford D. Johnson, announced that Larry Norton, age 66, of Fort Wayne, Indiana was convicted of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine, after a six-day...
By State Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement...
By DOE Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Acting EM Assistant Secretary Sue Cange will participate in a panel discussion on June 7 for the House Nuclear Cleanup Caucus on achieving cost savings at EM sites.
By Interior Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. - The Bureau of Reclamation announces that Klamath River emergency dilution flows will not be required in 2017 to mitigate the effects of a parasite called Ceratanova shasta (or C. shasta) on outmigrating juvenile salmon. The announcement is made following weeks of monitoring parasite...
By DOJ Newswire | May 31, 2017
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - A Montgomery resident was sentenced to 42 months in prison for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud scheme, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clark Morris for the Middle District of Alabama and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
