News from December 2019
By DOT News Wire | Dec 12, 2019
The US Transportation Department published a two page proposed rule on Dec. 12, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: WASHINGTON – U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao today announced that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Build America Bureau (the Bureau) will provide up to a $502.9 million Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) loan to the Hampton Roads Transportation Accountability Commission (HRTAC) in Virginia to help finance several of HRTAC’s Regional Priority Projects.
By DOT News Wire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: RRIF Express pilot provides expedited federal financing for short line and regional freight railroads, including $26 million in financial support
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: LITTLE ROCK- A convicted murderer has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Today, United States Chief District Judge D.P. Marshall, Jr., sentenced Patrick Johnson, 22, of Little Rock, to 120 months’ imprisonment. Ten years is the statutory maximum penalty for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A Jefferson City, Missouri, man has been convicted by a federal jury of providing false information in two unsuccessful attempts to purchase firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Defendant possessed document titled “How to Practice Child Love," and more than 5,000 images and 440 videos depicting sexual abuse of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Christopher P. Tenorio (619) 546-8413.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Washington D.C.- Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, praised Committee passage of the reauthorization of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, which includes the Adoption Opportunities Act and the Family Violence...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: On Dec. 10, 2019, former fugitive Stanley Simms was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard to 96 months in prison, to be followed by 40 years of supervised release, for possessing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Maria Chapa Lopez announces the unsealing of an indictment charging 11 individuals with federal drug trafficking offenses. Ahmad Rashad Weston, a/k/a “Blood," (42, St. Petersburg); Charleston Shellie Long, a/k/a “Shellie," (38, St. Petersburg); Shyron Deonta Givens...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Daryl Henry, 24, and Pablo Ceniceros-Deleon, 19, pleaded guilty today to a federal hate crime and other charges in connection with their involvement in a scheme to target gay men for violent crimes following an investigation by the FBI’s Dallas Field Office, announced Assistant Attorney Eric Dreiband of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Multiple Convicted Felons Found Possessing Firearms and Drugs in the Same Vehicle.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN ULRICH, who previously served as the vice president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 812 (the “Union") and as a trustee of the Union’s employee health benefit plan (the “Plan")...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Scott W. Brady announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: The National Park Service is pleased to announce that the 2020 Commercial Use Authorization (CUA) application process for Wright Brothers National Memorial, Cape Hatteras National Seashore, and Fort Raleigh National Historic Site is now open.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Robert J. Higdon, Jr. announced that today in federal court, BRYAN PAUL WINQUIST, 39, of Cordova, Tennessee, was sentenced to 1 month of intermittent confinement and 9 months of house arrest as terms of a 3 year period of probation on a charge of Theft of Government Property. WINQUEST was also ordered to pay a $3,100.00 fine and $11,669.06 in restitution to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that JOSE HUMBERTO DELSIB-MARTINEZ (hereinafter “Delsib), age 40, a native of Honduras, pleaded guilty on December 5, 2019 to a three-count superseding bill of information, which charged him with being an illegal alien in possession...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joseph W. Cronin, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service’s Boston Division, announced that IGNACIO BRUNO, 33, of South Windsor, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to 102 months of imprisonment, followed by four years of supervised release, for trafficking cocaine.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
Release: BOSTON--The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is now offering the use of “blended lanes" at airports in Massachusetts. Blended lanes provides TSA Pre✓® screening to confirmed TSA Pre✓® individuals and their accessible property at smaller airports that do not have a dedicated TSA Pre✓® checkpoint. At the nation’s larger airports, blended lanes are utilized during off-peak hours when TSA Pre✓® passenger volume is too low for dedicated TSA Pre✓® lanes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 12, 2019
News Release: CHICAGO - A former associate clerk in the Office of the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County was sentenced today to two years in prison for lying under oath to a federal grand jury.
