News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Two Sapulpa men pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to child exploitation crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to San Jacinto Community College District (SJCCD), Houston, Texas, to renovate and equip the EDGE Center at the Houston Spaceport to create an aerospace technician training program. This EDA grant, to be matched with $250,000 in local investment, is expected to save 216 jobs.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Ejembi Onah Charged with Wire Fraud and Money Laundering After Obtaining Approximately $150,000 in Loans.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: A Grosse Pointe Park resident was arrested today in connection with a federal criminal complaint charging him with obtaining by fraud, embezzling, and unlawfully converting to his own use the funds of the Holy Cross organization, a large charitable organization based in Clinton, Michigan, that receives federal funds, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima S. Mohsin.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding $1.2 million in CARES Act Recovery Assistance grants to help the state of Ohio prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Berwyn Development Corporation, Berwyn, Illinois, to capitalize a Revolving Loan Fund that will provide...
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
Release: BURBANK, California - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers at Hollywood Burbank Airport (BUR) have discovered two firearms this year in the carry-on luggage of departing passengers. Each of the firearms was discovered during the routine screening of carry-on property at the airport security checkpoint.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Carrizozo, N.M. - The Bureau of Land Management Roswell Field Office will close the Valley of Fires Recreation Area from April 12-23 for maintenance and upgrades. The closure includes camping as well as day-use areas. The Malpais Nature Trail and the Valley of Fires Visitor Center will also be closed.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WILMINGTON, N.C. - Jason Hyland, 39, of Duplin County, was sentenced yesterday to 134 months in prison for Conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine and possession with intent to distribute 500 grams or more of a mixture and substance containing methamphetamine.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced up to $35 million for a new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) program focused on developing technologies to reduce methane emissions in the oil, gas, and coal industries. This funding opportunity will support projects that can be replicated easily and commercialized quickly to cut methane accumulation in the atmosphere and mitigate the effects of climate change.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: LYNCHBURG, Va. - Eric Joseph Gravette, who was convicted in September 2020 of federal drug conspiracy and weapons charges, was sentenced recently in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg to 262 months in federal prison, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar, Lynchburg Police Chief Ryan Zuidema, and Charlie Patterson, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives Washington Field Division (ATF) announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: A Dubuque, Iowa, man’s conviction and life sentence for distributing heroin resulting in a death was upheld April 7, 2021, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - Brothers Mehran David Kohanbash and Joseph Kohan, and their nephew, Nima Rodefshalom, have been sentenced for their roles in an elaborate fraud scheme that stole millions of dollars from health care systems across the United States.
By State Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1 million grant to the city of Sioux City, Iowa, to build a hangar at the Sioux Gateway Airport to be leased by a new aviation school that would provide...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - The United States Attorney’s Office, the Office of the Rhode Island Attorney General, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Rhode Island State Police today publicly updated information on criminal investigations and prosecutions of individuals who are alleged to have targeted and...
By State Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
Release: On behalf of the United States of America, I extend best wishes and heartfelt concern to the people of Burma for Burma’s New Year, Thingyan.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Wendy W. Berger today sentenced John Armstrong (32, North Fort Myers) to 35 years in federal prison for two bank robberies, an attempted bank robbery, a Hobbs Act robbery, and three counts of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Gregory A. Presnell today sentenced Irving Cepeda-Chico (39, Kissimmee) to 14 years in federal prison for 12 counts of distribution of controlled substances and 1 count of conspiracy to distribute such substances. Cepeda-Chico had pleaded guilty on Nov. 20, 2020.
By State Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on his new bipartisan, comprehensive China legislation with Chairman Menendez entitled the Strategic Competition Act. This legislation lays out a strategic approach towards Beijing so that the United States can effectively compete with China for decades to come.
