News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former Inca, of leader, of the Lowell Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (“Latin Kings") pleaded guilty today to racketeering charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Methuen man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - During a press conference held on Independence Mall this morning, Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams was joined by senior officials from more than 15 federal agencies operating in the Philadelphia area to announce their collective effort to combat the raging epidemic ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ADEDAYO ILORI pled guilty today before United States District Judge Lewis J. Liman to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud in connection with his role in a loan fraud scheme. ILORI also admitted...
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding an $800,000 CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Alabama Gulf Coast Convention and Visitors Bureau, Orange Beach, Alabama, to develop and implement a tourism recovery marketing campaign in response to the economic downturn that resulted from the coronavirus pandemic. This EDA grant will be matched with $200,000 in local investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Paul J. Carter, also known as Paul Hamilton, and formerly known as Paul J. Cristallo, was arrested yesterday for making false statements on a visa application.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK - Tayvon Whaley, age 29, and Anthony Miller, age 38, both of Binghamton, New York, appeared in federal court late yesterday afternoon on a criminal complaint charging them with federal drug charges, announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Ray Donovan, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Field Division.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. -Today, Rep. Stephen F. Lynch, Chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security; Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations; and Committee Member Rep. Katie Porter sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III urging the Department of Defense (DOD) to build upon his previous commitments to transparency and expand public and Congressional access to information.
By State Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
Release: The Burmese military regime has ignored the will of the people of Burma to restore the country’s path toward democracy and has continued to commit lethal attacks against protesters in addition to random attacks on bystanders. This includes security forces’ brutal actions on March 27 that left over 100 protestors dead. These attacks have led to over 500 deaths, including dozens of children.
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 $2.2 million grant to the city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to improve Pump Station 299 and increase capacity to support business development in the Baton Rouge Health District. This EDA project, to be matched with $560,000 in local funds, is expected to create 574 jobs and generate $21 million in private investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former accounting manager for a Los Angeles firm was sentenced today to 126 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $36 million from his employer’s client and then using the bulk of the illicit gains to pay off tens of millions of dollars in credit card debt.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment today against Calvin James Smith, 33, and Marques Julius Johnson, 39, of Sacramento, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - The owner of several Boston-based investment companies pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston to operating a Ponzi-like fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: A man who embezzled more than $120,000 in social security disability benefits has been sentenced to 15 months in federal prison, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court three years’ (36 months’) imprisonment and six years’ supervised release on his conviction of Possession of Material Depicting the Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Michigan man who robbed a credit union - and two days later attempted to rob a bank and led law enforcement on a high-speed pursuit that ended with him crashing his getaway car near Vandenberg Air Force Base - pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: HODGENVILLE - The Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park will observe National Jr. Ranger Day on Saturday, April 17, 2021.
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 $3 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Community Ventures Corporation, Lexington, Kentucky, to provide critical gap financing to small businesses economically impacted by the coronavirus pandemic in the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky. This EDA grant will be matched with $600,000 in local investment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced that Duane Richard Forrest, age 48, of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, was sentenced to a total of fifty years for photographing and videotaping his sexual exploitation of two boys in their early teens. He was also ordered to pay $10,200 in special assessments.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 8, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Morgan C. Brown, 25, of Blair, Nebraska, was sentenced on April 7, 2021, in federal court in Omaha, Nebraska, for conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of actual methamphetamine, and for using a firearm during and in relation to a drug trafficking...
