News from September 2017
By USDA Wire | Sep 28, 2017
The US Agriculture Department published a five page notice on Sept. 28, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Funds to speed repairs to hurricane-damaged roads and bridges
By DOT News Wire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON—U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced the appointment of seven new members to the Federal Aviation Administration's 13-member Management Advisory Council (MAC). The MAC advises the FAA's senior management on policy, spending, long-range planning, and regulatory matters.
By DOT News Wire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Funds to speed repairs to hurricane-damaged roads and bridges
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former bank teller pled guilty today to stealing more than $185,000 from a longtime customer of the bank, a homeless man, announced U.S. Attorney Jessie K. Liu and Andrew Vale, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Abel Montero-Mendoza, 32, of Oxford, PA, was charged today by Indictment with illegal reentry after deportation, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment alleges that on or about Nov. 3, 2014, Montero-Mendoza, an alien, and native and citizen of Mexico, was found in the United States after having been deported from the United States on or about Sept. 17, 2005 and June 15, 2010.
By USDA Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has filed an administrative complaint under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act (PACA) against C & D Produce Outlet South Inc.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Incident information. Photos of Hurricanes Irma and Maria damage and response. Homestead, Fla. - A new deployment of the National Park Service Eastern Incident Management Team (EIMT) has been dedicated to the NPS response to the impacts of Hurricanes Irma and Maria to national parks in the Caribbean.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Defendant Used Money for Island Vacations and Other Personal Benefit.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Claire McCaskill of Missouri and Mike Lee of Utah introduced a bill today that requires federal agencies to update Congress after a terrorist attack with what happened and what can be done to address security gaps and prevent future attacks.
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
Release: PASCO, Wash. - The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has implemented new and stronger carry-on baggage security screening procedures at three Washington airports including Tri-Cities Regional Airport, Yakima Air Terminal - McAllister Field in Yakima; and Pangborn Memorial Airport in Wenatchee. The new procedures require travelers to place all electronics larger than a cell phone in bins for X-ray screening.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Northfield, New Jersey, man today admitted defrauding New Jersey state health benefits programs and other insurers out of millions of dollars by submitting fraudulent claims for medically unnecessary prescriptions, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick and New Jersey Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida- U.S. District Judge Harvey Schlesinger today sentenced Wesley Eugene Parker (25, Fernandina Beach) to 15 years in federal prison for distributing cocaine. He pleaded guilty on May 22, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland -The Department of Justice has awarded a $750,000 grant to the Baltimore Police Department Community Collaboration Division to improve supervision strategies that will reduce recidivism rates in Baltimore City announced Acting United States Attorney Stephen M. Schenning.
By Interior Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Keystone, SD - On Tuesday, Sept. 26, an early celebration of National Public Lands Day occurred with the reopening of the Blackberry Trail. In coordination with the Black Hills Backcountry Horsemen of South Dakota and generous donors through the Mount Rushmore Society, the equestrian and hiking trail has been rehabilitated and reopened.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Jamie Hussey, 35, of Gorham, Maine, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to three months in prison and one year of supervised release for federal program fraud. She was also ordered to pay $92,877 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on Sept. 27, 2017, United States District Court Judge Matthew W. Brann sentenced Loretta Galloway, age 56, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to six months’ home-confinement and to pay full restitution of $83,874 for unlawfully collecting thousands of dollars in Social Security Benefits that she was not entitled to.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: This morning, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) air traffic controllers handled the landing of the first commercial air carrier flight in weeks into the Cyril E. King International Airport in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (TIST). Working from a mobile air traffic tower the FAA moved to the island last weekend, the controllers are now managing a mix of commercial, military, relief and recovery flights to and from the storm-ravaged island.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that LEANDA JOANNE PRATHER, age 37, of Canadian, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 3 years probation for EMBEZZLEMENT OF MAIL BY POSTAL EMPLOYEE, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1709.
By US DOT Newswire | Sep 28, 2017
News Release: At the request of U.S. national security and law enforcement agencies, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is using its existing authority under Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR) § 99.7 - “Special Security Instructions" - to address concerns about unauthorized drone operations over 10 Department of the Interior (DOI) sites, including the Statue of Liberty and Mount Rushmore.
