News from February 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New Jersey senior care company will pay $714,996 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by making false representations in connection with submissions to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Florence, South Carolina --- United States Attorney Peter M. McCoy, Jr. announced today that Michael Quantrell Barr, 30, of Myrtle Beach, was sentenced to nearly four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing with intent to distribute heroin and distributing heroin.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Today the U.S. Census Bureau released data from the 2019 Annual Survey of Manufactures.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Stephen R. Clark sentenced Kevin White to 120 months in prison today. The 27-year-old Hazelwood, Missouri, resident pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $2.4 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, Toledo, Ohio, to create a Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) that will provide critical gap financing to coronavirus-impacted...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Milik I. Stanley, of Columbus, Ohio, and Susan Manuel, of Wheeling, West Virginia, have admitted to their roles in a drug trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Andrew Murray announced today that Fredrick Thomas Gettins Strohm, 41, of Jackson County, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and three years of supervised release for embezzling more than $95,000 from an Indian tribal organization. U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: LEAKE COUNTY, MS - A family of six travelling on the Natchez Trace Parkway near Milepost 145 was stranded overnight. A fallen tree caused their trailer to become stuck. The driver unhooked the trailer and continued driving. The vehicle slid off the roadway forcing the family to spend the night on the Parkway. With the assistance Leake County volunteer fire department, the family was rescued around noon today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Adam W. Gagnon, 43, of Manchester, pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to possession of fentanyl with intent to distribute, United States Attorney Scott W. Murray announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, Florida - In a case arising from anticipated protests at the Florida Capitol last month, a federal grand jury returned an indictment today charging Daniel A. Baker, of Tallahassee, with two counts of transmitting a communication in interstate commerce containing a threat to kidnap or injure. Lawrence Keefe, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the indictment.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Maine man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Boston for travelling to have sex with a minor and child pornography.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul and Chairman Gregory W. Meeks sent a letter to President Biden urging him to consider using the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act to sanction those responsible for the recent assassination of Lebanese activist Lokman Slim.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A venture capitalist and political fundraiser was sentenced today to 144 months in federal prison for falsifying records to conceal his work as a foreign agent while lobbying high-level U.S. government officials, evading the payment of millions of dollars in taxes, making illegal campaign contributions, and obstructing a federal investigation into the source of donations to a presidential inauguration committee.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: EMINENCE, MO - Join park rangers on Saturday, Feb. 27, at 5:00 PM at the Alley General Store for a guided evening hike to identify owls. It will be a “hoot of a time"!.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: BAYFIELD, WISCONSIN - Public access to the mainland ice caves in Apostle Islands National Lakeshore remain closed due to unstable ice conditions. As recently as February 4, there was open water at the caves, and ice cover on Lake Superior was at record lows. In spite of the recent cold temperatures...
By Homeland Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
Release: LATROBE, Pa. - Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers caught an Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, man with a.380 caliber handgun loaded with six bullets at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport security checkpoint yesterday, Wednesday, Feb. 17.
By State Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
Release: The United States is deeply concerned by recent political developments in Georgia. We call on all parties to exercise restraint and avoid any actions or rhetoric that could escalate tensions or result in violence. We urge the Georgian government to act in line with its Euro-Atlantic aspirations and to reinforce its commitment to the principles of democracy, individual liberty, and rule of law by ensuring that its judicial and prosecutorial system is free of political bias.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: Harrisburg, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Ethan Shane Williams, a 21-year old man with past addresses in Whitehall, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A San Dimas man pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge that he fraudulently obtained more than $500,000 in COVID-19-related unemployment benefits in the names of foreign nationals he falsely claimed were local real estate agents hit hard financially by the pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 18, 2021
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Tuscaloosa man to federal prison for possession of marijuana and guns used in furtherance of drug dealing, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
