News from September 2017
By Commerce News Now | Sep 19, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 19, 2017
The US Transportation Department published a six page proposed rule on Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Commerce News Now | Sep 19, 2017
The US Commerce Department published a five page proposed rule on Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By USDA Wire | Sep 19, 2017
The US Agriculture Department published a one page notice on Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: July 2017 Passenger Airline Employment Data
By DOT News Wire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Funds to Speed Emergency Repairs for Roads and Bridges Damaged by Months of Wildfires
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: DALLAS, Texas - Javier Giovanni Araujo, 34, of Austin, Texas, appeared this morning before U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul D. Stickney and pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to produce child pornography and one count of transportation of child pornography, announced John Parker, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: A Guatemalan man who had previously been deported following a federal conviction for unlawfully using identification documents was sentenced on Sept. 18, 2017, to two years in federal prison.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
Release: Washington, DC, Sept. 19, 2017 - Students in Georgia schools affected by Hurricane Irma will be provided free meals through the end of September, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today, along with additional flexibilities in federal child nutrition programs in Georgia and Florida aimed at making it easy for children to be fed.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: SANTA FE, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management is seeking input on the analysis of 26 parcels in northern New Mexico for the March 2018 competitive oil and gas lease sale. The parcels are located in Rio Arriba, Sandoval, and San Juan counties.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Morgantown, West Virginia man was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges related to campaign fraud, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Dr. Clifford Jacobson, M.D., 67, of Rochester, NY, pleaded guilty to illegally distributing a controlled substance, before U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Orlando Hernandez, age 32, a prisoner at United States Penitentiary, Canaan, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury for assaulting a federal correctional officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that Danny Ferguson, age 42, of Kyle, South Dakota, was found guilty of Arson following a federal trial in Rapid City, South Dakota.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the guilty pleas of three defendants for their involvement in a years-long, multi-million dollar heath care fraud and tax conspiracy. THURLEE BELFREY, 52, ROYLEE BELFREY, 52, and LANORE BELFREY, 42, pleaded guilty on Sept. 14, 2017...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Emeka H. Chijioke, 40, formerly of Atlanta, Ga., and Nigeria, pled guilty today to a federal charge of health care fraud stemming from a scheme in which he defrauded the District of Columbia’s Medicaid program out of more than $500,000.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: (BUTTE, Mont.) - As fire restrictions go to Stage 1 in Broadwater, Jefferson, and Lewis & Clark counties, the Bureau of Land Management is also re-opening the North Hills area to shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Jason Dean Barnes (41, Jacksonville) has been found guilty of receiving child sexual abuse images and videos over the Internet using a “dark web" application following a bench trial. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 5 years, up to 20 years, in federal prison. A sentencing date has been set for Dec. 18, 2017.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - On Sept. 11, the Bureau of Land Management’s Royal Gorge Field Office issued a decision to lease the Salida East Recreation Site to Colorado Parks and Wildlife. With the approved lease, CPW and the BLM will work together to construct and manage approximately 25 campsites in a developed campground as part of the Arkansas Headwaters Recreation Area.
By State Newswire | Sep 19, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement in response to a speech by Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma about the humanitarian crisis facing the Rohingya minority.
