News from July 2018
By DOT News Wire | Jul 3, 2018
The US Transportation Department published a one page notice on July 3, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao was joined by Senator Deb Fischer and Congressman Don Bacon at an event in Omaha today as she received an update on the Lincoln South Beltway project, which was awarded a $25 million Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) discretionary grant in May.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Los Angeles man who made a series of online threats to kill law enforcement personnel and others at the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Inglewood Courthouse, a nearby school, and a private business pled guilty yesterday to a federal offense of making online threats.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Kenneth Brian Hanger (46, St. Augustine) has been arrested and charged by a federal criminal complaint with soliciting child pornography using the internet. In 1994, Hanger was convicted of aggravated indecent assault in Bradford County, Pennsylvania and is required to register...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: (ORLANDO, Fla.) - Michael Gordon Watson (41, Melbourne) was sentenced to 25 years in federal prison yesterday for possessing with the intent to distribute more than 1 kilogram of methamphetamine, more than 3 kilograms of marijuana, and a large quantity of MDMA. Watson also possessed two loaded firearms at the time of his arrest, which the court ordered him to forfeit. Watson pleaded guilty on March 13, 2018.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: WASHINGTON - Following reports that three men from Kansas and Missouri fraudulently obtained government contracts worth more than $350 million that were reserved for service-disabled veterans and disadvantaged businesses, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill demanded answers from the Small Business Administration...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY, UT - On July 2, the Bureau of Reclamation awarded a $4.7 million contract to pipe 6,800 feet of the Farson Lateral canal near Farson, Wyoming, to MD Nursery and Landscaping of Driggs, Idaho. In its current state, the canal, operated by the Eden Valley Irrigation and Drainage District, is an unlined earthen ditch. Piping will considerably improve the efficiency of the canal by eliminating losses from evaporation and seepage.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Claimants who wish to retain their mining claims on Bureau of Land Management federal public lands through the 2019 assessment year must pay a maintenance fee or file a maintenance fee waiver certificate on or before Tuesday, Sept. 4, to prevent the mining claim from being declared forfeit and void.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: United States Attorney John H. Durham and Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen today announced that ARLENE WERNER, PhD., has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal and state governments and has paid more than $126,000 to resolve allegations that she violated the federal and state False Claims Acts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: BLM and DEA agents seized 9,156 marijuana plants.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: PHOENIX, AZ-In 2017, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center-or IC3.gov-received about 11,000 complaints from people who claimed to have lost $15 million in tech support scams. That’s an 86% increase in losses from 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: Van Buren, MO: Two managed deer hunts will be conducted in October and November 2018 at Big Spring. These hunting opportunities are being extended to special groups of the nation's population, our youth and military service members with service-related injuries.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: HAMMOND- Daniel P. Bewley, 34, a tax return preparer from of Noblesville, Indiana, was sentenced before District Court Judge James T. Moody on his plea to a wire fraud scheme that spanned from 2011 to April 2014 involving his submission of fraudulent customer tax returns to the IRS. The defendant also pled guilty to one count of filing his own fraudulent federal tax return, announced U.S. Attorney Thomas L. Kirsch II.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: Springdale, UT- A rockfall came down on Hidden Canyon Trail late Monday afternoon, July 2. No one was injured. The rockfall occurred in the chains section, covering approximately 45 feet of trail in 1.5 feet of sand. Park staff monitoring the rockfall area on Wednesday witnessed another rockfall late in the day. The trail will remain closed until a hazard geologist examines the situation and the trail can be cleared.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Los Angeles man who made a series of online threats to kill law enforcement personnel and others at the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Inglewood Courthouse, a nearby school, and a private business pled guilty yesterday to a federal offense of making online threats.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - The Washington State Department of Ecology has approved an operating permit for the Analytical Laboratory at Hanford ’s Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) Project. The laboratory supports EM’s plans to begin treating tank waste through its Direct Feed Low-Activity Waste (DFLAW) vitrification approach.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: SIOUX FALLS, SD - United States Attorney Ron Parsons announced that John Edward Monette, 49, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has been indicted as part of a national undercover operation targeting Darknet vendors. Monette was indicted on May 8, 2018, for Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A Las Vegas man who possessed more than 15,500 photos and videos of child pornography, including the sexual abuse of infants and toddlers, was sentenced today to 68 months in federal prison to be followed by lifetime supervised release, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: Defendant Created Fake IDs and Business Checks to Steal from Banks and Businesses.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 3, 2018
News Release: MIAMI, FL - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited Bakery Management Corp., doing business as Bakery Corp., for exposing employees to caught-in, fall, and electrical hazards. The Miami-based commercial bakery faces proposed penalties of $67,261.
