News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - John Leon Rupert, 29, of Scarborough, Maine pleaded guilty in federal court to making interstate threats, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Dubai-Based Alade Sodiq and Others in the United States and Europe Conspired to Use Phone “Spoofing" Service and Other Means to Transfer Millions in Fraudulently Obtained Funds.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: ST. CROIX FALLS, Wisconsin: St. Croix National Scenic Riverway plans to conduct prescribed burns in the Riverway corridor on several dates between April 14 and May 31, depending on weather conditions. The National Park Service (NPS) will conduct these burns as part of an effort to improve prairie and savanna habitat along the St. Croix and Namekagon rivers.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, N.Y. -Charles W. Whitcher, 41, of Port Leyden, New York, pled guilty today to distribution and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, possession of pseudoephedrine with the intent to manufacture methamphetamine, and maintaining a drug-involved premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Pakistani National Indicted and Sanctioned for Human Smuggling Conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that five men were indicted by a grand jury on multiple federal charges for fraudulently obtaining and misappropriating Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP") loan funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The chief financial officer of Rockport Physical Medicine PA has agreed to pay $273,000 to resolve allegations she falsely billed Medicare for the use of acupuncture devices, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Arman Mkhitaryan, 33, of Glendale, arraigned today on a 33-count indictment charging him with bank fraud and credit card fraud, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A South Florida tax preparer, who was indicted by a Grand Jury in the Southern District of Florida on March 25, 2021, was arrested today. Samuel Mompoint, 57, a resident of Miami-Dade County, Florida, is charged with seventeen counts of willfully aiding and assisting in the preparation and presentation of materially false tax returns for the calendar years 2014 and 2015.
By State Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
Release: United States Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL). Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO):. Support for the Rule of Law, Independent Media, and Civil Society in Lebanon. This is the announcement of funding opportunity number SFOP0007885. Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance...
By US DOT Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee, and U.S. Representative Sam Graves (R-Mo.), Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, today sent a letter to President Joe Biden ...
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Cedar City, Utah - On Monday, April 12, Cedar Breaks National Monument will close the seasonal snowmobile trail through the park. Snowmobile use inside Cedar Breaks National Monument is restricted to the designated trail along Rim Road (the road through the park). The closure is necessary to begin preparing for the 2021 Summer Season, including plowing the park road and removing winter operations signage.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A California man was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for his role in a bank fraud scheme resulting in approximately $1.3 million in losses, Acting U.S.Attorney Rachael Honig announced.
By State Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
Release: In 2020, U.S.-funded demining teams finally cleared all mines and UXO from MM6 and released these lands back to local authorities. The channel also was fully cleared of explosive hazards, cleaned up, and renovated, which restored roughly 27 acres of cultivated land and 1km of access road to productive...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Lynn man was sentenced in federal court in Boston yesterday for robbing multiple convenience stores in Lynn.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Wednesday, April 14, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “An Epidemic within a Pandemic: Understanding Substance Use and Misuse in America."
By EPA Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Wednesday, April 14, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “An Epidemic within a Pandemic: Understanding Substance Use and Misuse in America."
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Health Subcommittee Chairwoman Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) announced today that the Health Subcommittee will hold a fully remote legislative hearing on Wednesday, April 14, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT). The hearing is entitled, “An Epidemic within a Pandemic: Understanding Substance Use and Misuse in America."
By Interior Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: HOMESTEAD, Fla. - Biscayne joins the nation in celebrating National Park Week with both in-person programs and with virtual opportunities for visitors on April 16-25.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 7, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Jaquan Jeremiah Wright, 22, of New York, pleaded guilty today to possession of a firearm by a prohibited person. Wright was arrested on a federal criminal complaint in February 2021 in connection with a long-term investigation into a methamphetamine trafficking organization operating in Charleston. He was later charged by an Information on March 16, 2021.
