News from July 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Keith A. Penn, 41, of Tallahassee, Florida, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to drug trafficking and firearm charges. Jason R. Coody, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida, announced the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: HUNTSVILLE, Ala. - A federal judge yesterday sentenced Norman David Ray Fischer, 41, of Owens Cross Roads, to 211 months in prison on gun and drug charges, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Mickey French.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: Avanos Medical Inc., a U.S.-based multinational medical device corporation, has agreed to pay more than $22 million to resolve a criminal charge relating to the company’s fraudulent misbranding of its MicroCool surgical gowns.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - On Thursday, July 8, 2021, Raymond Erfort was sentenced to 120 months in prison for possessing 497 grams of cocaine with intent to distribute, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is investing $2.5 million in the state of Oklahoma to diversify the regional economy and create new job opportunities.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: Avanos Medical Inc. to Pay $22 Million to Resolve Criminal Charge Related to the Fraudulent Misbranding of Its MicroCool Surgical Gowns.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released a staff report analyzing financial data from 14 of the largest drug companies in the world to evaluate the amount they spend to enrich investors and executives, the amount they invest to research and develop new treatments, and the potential impact of direct Medicare price negotiations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Robert Seifert, age 63, of Utica, New York, plead guilty today to making telephonic threats to employees of the Albany Stratton Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: A 19-year-old Tulsa man arrested for a series of robberies and carjackings that occurred in Tulsa and Broken Arrow pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - A federal grand jury returned a four-count indictment today against Jesus Manuel Morfin Villa, 27, of Delano, charging him with distribution of methamphetamine and distribution of fentanyl, charging Omar Vayas Duran, 41, of Delano, with distribution of fentanyl, and charging both Villa and Duran with conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and fentanyl, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By State Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
Release: The United States expresses its deep concern with the Kyrgyz Republic’s recent approval of a law imposing onerous financial and programmatic reporting requirements on non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The new requirements threaten the ability of NGOs to improve the lives of citizens and impede the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that MICHAEL AVENATTI was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court by United States District Judge Paul G. Gardephe to 30 months in prison for attempting to extort NIKE, Inc., and for defrauding a client. AVENATTI was previously found guilty on Feb. 14, 2020, following a three-week jury trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on July 7, 2021 ALLEN EDGERSON, age 43, of Moreno Valley, California, pled guilty today to charges relating to methamphetamine trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - A 46-year old Cincinnati man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling heroin laced with fentanyl to three people who overdosed on it.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Aug. 25, 2020, a federal grand jury indicted Herlin Hernandez-Trinidad (a/k/a “Rainely), and on Jan. 26, 2021, a federal grand jury indicted Jose Crespo-Lorenzo (a/k/a “El Colombiano"). In both...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Lexington doctor and his wife, who works as his office manager, were charged today in a superseding indictment in connection with an international money laundering scheme involving importing illegal, misbranded drugs.
By DOL Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: ATLANTA - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration urges response crews and residents to recognize the hazards created by flooding, power loss, structural damage, fallen trees and storm debris in areas affected by Tropical Storm Elsa.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: CHEYENNE OKLAHOMA: Washita Battlefield National Historic Site successfully hosted the seventh annual Owa Chita summer camp this past week (June 28-July 2). 25 local campers enjoyed a variety of activities related to the natural resources and history of the park. Some of the activities included candle...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: CHICAGO - A criminal complaint filed today in federal court accuses a man of forcibly assaulting two federal agents and a task force officer in Chicago yesterday morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 8, 2021
News Release: ABINGDON, Va. - A Cahokia, Illinois man pleaded guilty today to transporting a minor from Virginia to South Dakota with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity.
