News from April 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NICOLE M. BALKAS, 31, of Bridgeport, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of health care fraud.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Every year on April 28, the U.S. Department of Labor and its Occupational Safety and Health Administration commemorates Workers Memorial Day, when we remember and honor the men and women who have lost their lives on the job. Many of these devastating losses were preventable if standards had been followed, appropriate controls existed and if safety and health programs were a priority.
By USDA Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Washington - "Mexico’s Supreme Court released a final, unanimous ruling today on a case that puts U.S. fresh potatoes one step closer to finally gaining access to Mexico following nearly 20 years of negotiations. This decision is important for American agriculture and for positive bilateral relations...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man pleaded guilty today to conducting a scheme to take over victims’ social media accounts and steal hundreds of thousands of dollars in cryptocurrency.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - A former Georgia Deputy pleaded guilty to possessing unregistered firearms resulting from an FBI-led investigation into a violent extremist group, said Peter D. Leary, the Acting U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Washington D.C.- Ways and Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX), Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), and Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (R-NC) today released legislation - the Lower Costs, More Cures Act - to lower drug costs for Americans without limiting access to cures.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Today, Republican Leader of the Education and Labor Committee Virginia Foxx (R-NC) issued the following statement after Committee Democrats postponed this week’s scheduled subcommittee hearing to examine the status of mandating an unnecessary one-size-fits-all ‘emergency’ Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulation on COVID-19 in all workplaces...
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
Release: On this occasion of North Korea Freedom Week, we stand with the millions of North Koreans who continue to have their dignity and human rights violated by one of the most repressive and totalitarian states in the world, including the more than 100,000 individuals who suffer unspeakable abuses in the regime’s...
By DOL Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, CA ‒ Every 99 minutes, about one worker suffers fatal injuries and fails to return home safely at their work day’s end. That’s 15 workers a day, 100 a week, more than 5,200 a year - a frightening reality, but one that the nation’s employers can change by following workplace safety and health standards and regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging an Arlington man with sex trafficking of minors, production of child pornography, and other commercial sexual exploitation offenses involving young adults.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that SALVATORE TAGLIAFERRO, the president of Local 926 chapter of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America (the “Union"), was found guilty today in Manhattan federal court of honest services...
By State Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
Release: The United States notes President Farmaajo’s April 28 commitment to return to the September 17 election agreement and resume talks immediately with Federal Member State leaders. We call on the President and Parliament to act swiftly to annul the April 12 mandate extension bill.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury in Michigan returned a superseding indictment today that adds new charges of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction against three defendants and adds federal firearms violations against two defendants in the case alleging a conspiracy to kidnap the governor of Michigan, Gretchen Whitmer.
By Homeland Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: REGION 1 - FEMA recently obligated $1,210,103 to reimburse the Boston Public Health Commission for the cost of COVID-19 community-based testing sites at five local health centers between May 13 and Aug. 31, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Jeanine Henderson Arnett, 43, the former Executive Director of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and her husband, Diallo Arnett, 47, pled guilty on April 20, 2021 and April 28, 2021, respectively, to a charge stemming from her embezzlement of over $150,000, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: Defendant allegedly supplied 60 pounds of methamphetamine to the Fairbanks area.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces that Eber Uriel Perez-Ramirez, age 29, of Aurora, CO, was sentenced to 10.5 years in federal prison following his prior guilty plea to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute controlled substances, in violation of 21 U.S.C. § 846.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Jamestown, New York, has been sentenced in federal court to 46 months in jail on his conviction of violating federal firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - On April 27, 2021, Richard Allen Strickland, a 55-year-old resident of Hartford, Alabama, was sentenced to 87 months in prison for illegal drug distribution, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Sandra J. Stewart. In addition to his prison sentence, Strickland was ordered to serve three years of supervised release. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 28, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A Chinese national pleaded guilty today in federal court in Boston in connection with illegally procuring and causing the illegal export of $100,000 worth of U.S. origin goods to Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), a Chinese military university that is heavily involved in military research and works closely with the People’s Liberation Army on the advancement of its military capabilities.
