News from July 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Catherine C. Blake today sentenced Victor Davis, age 41, of Baltimore, Maryland, to five years in federal prison, followed by four years of supervised release, for conspiracy to distribute and posses with the intent to distribute crack cocaine base. As part of ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Law enforcement officials today arrested 12 defendants charged in a federal grand jury indictment with conspiring to distribute at least $2 million worth of heroin by operating two Orange County-based call centers that took telephone orders for deliveries of the drug.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 13, 2021
News Release: MISSOULA - A Montana man who admitted trafficking drugs, including methamphetamine, in Montana and receiving meth through the mail in Butte was sentenced to prison July 13.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: MISSOULA - A Texas man suspected of sexually assaulting a minor girl while on a flight from Austin, Texas, to Bozeman had an initial appearance on a criminal complaint today, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif M. Johnson said.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A Border Patrol (BP) agent has been arrested on allegations he attempted to aid and abet smuggling cocaine through a BP checkpoint, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Sao Tome and Principe on the 46th anniversary of your independence.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. House Ways and Means Republican Leader Kevin Brady (R-TX) and U.S. Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Mike Crapo (R-ID) issued the following statement on President Biden’s decision to fire Social Security Administration Commissioner Andrew Saul...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON — Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas released the following statement on the confirmation of Jen Easterly as Director of the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA): “I congratulate Jen Easterly on her confirmation as Director of CISA. Jen is a ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: A federal jury in Newport News, Virginia, convicted Karl Burden-El Bey (aka Carl L. Burden) Friday of aiding and assisting in the preparation of false tax returns, theft of government funds and failing to file federal income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: The owner of a Brooklyn construction business, AD Custom Interiors Inc., pleaded guilty on July 9 to not paying payroll taxes to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division and the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) have signed the first interagency Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to foster cooperation and communication between the agencies to enhance competition in the maritime industry. Acting Assistant Attorney General ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: A Long Island woman pleaded guilty today to participating in a scheme to mail fraudulent prize notices that led recipients, many of whom were elderly and vulnerable, to believe that they could claim large cash prizes in exchange for a modest fee. None of the victims who submitted fees, which in total exceeded $30 million, received a substantial cash prize.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: The Florida Department of Children and Families (FDCF) has agreed to pay to the United States $17,500,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act in its administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Until 2008, SNAP ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services LLC (NRCS), its president and owner, Steven Michael Braithwaite, and its vice president and co-owner, Adam Thomas Braithwaite, pleaded guilty today in federal court in Omaha to charges stemming from an investigation into a 2015 fatal railcar explosion that killed two ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has entered into a proposed consent decree to settle a voting rights lawsuit with the Board of Elections of Oneida County, New York.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: Today, the U.S. Department of Justice, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), filed a complaint in federal court in the U.S. Virgin Islands against Limetree Bay Terminals LLC and Limetree Bay Refining LLC (jointly Limetree Bay) alleging that the companies’ St. Croix petroleum refinery ...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Department of Justice today released the following statement from spokesman Anthony Coley on department efforts to provide law enforcement assistance to the people and Government of Haiti: “At the request of the Haitian government, the Department of Justice, along with its U.S. government partners, ...
By Fed Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced its approval of the application by First Bank Corp. of Fort Smith, Arkansas, to acquire Central Bancshares of Poteau, Inc., and indirectly acquire The Central National Bank of Poteau, both of Poteau, Oklahoma.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: On behalf of the Government of the United States of America, I congratulate the people of Sao Tome and Principe on the 46th anniversary of your independence.
By State Newswire | Jul 12, 2021
News Release: The Department of State has imposed visa restrictions on 100 members of the Nicaraguan National Assembly and Nicaraguan judicial system, including prosecutors and judges, as well as some of their family members. The Department has revoked any U.S. visas held by these individuals.
