News from July 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An electrical engineer who schemed to illegally obtain integrated circuits with military applications that were exported to China without the required filing of electronic export information was sentenced today to 63 months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former union president was sentenced today to 28 months in federal prison for abusing her leadership position to embezzle union funds - corrupt behavior that depleted the union’s bank accounts and led her to double the due paid by union members.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Iranian National Pleads Guilty to Violating U.S. Sanctions Against Iran.
By State Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
Release: The United States and the Government of Rwanda virtually hosted on July 21-22 members of the UN General Assembly Special Committee on Peacekeeping (known as the C-34) for a preparatory meeting focused on capacity-building partnerships ahead of the December 2021 UN Peacekeeping Ministerial in Seoul, Korea.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Bridget M. Brennan announced that a federal jury found William R. Bauer, 84, of Port Clinton, Ohio, guilty of prescribing powerful controlled substances, including opioids, to patients without medical necessity and outside the usual course of medical practice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man convicted of Interference with Commerce by Robbery and Use and Brandishing of a Firearm During the Commission of a Crime of Violence was sentenced by Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Judge.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Beginning at midnight Friday, July 23, 2021, Olympic National Park and Olympic National Forest will implement a complete ban on all campfires, including charcoal. This includes the coastal areas of Olympic National Park. Gas or propane camp stoves may still be used in the wilderness backcountry and campgrounds, but should be operated well away from flammable vegetation and forest litter. Extreme caution is urged with any open flame.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Worcester man pleaded guilty yesterday to charges of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in connection with using stolen identities to fraudulently purchase MBTA passes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: District of Arizona to Participate in Cross-Jurisdictional Strike Force.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - A 47-year-old Katy woman has entered a guilty plea to scheming to defraud British Petroleum (BP), announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. -Three individuals made their initial appearances in federal court this afternoon on charges of participating in a bribery scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Jury Convicts Former Delaware Doctor of Unlawful Drug Distribution and Maintaining a Drug Premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JAQUAN GRAY, 27, of New Haven, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Robert N. Chatigny to 27 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for illegally possessing a loaded firearm. Pursuant to the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), the sentencing occurred via videoconference.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo announced that the Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is awarding a $1.1 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to the city of Fall River, Massachusetts, to support infrastructure upgrades needed to expand three local industrial parks that accommodate advanced manufacturing, life sciences and technology sector businesses. This EDA grant will be matched with $264,000 in local funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s New Jersey Division Susan A. Gibson and Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Rachael A. Honig announced two Newark men made their initial appearances today on gang-related narcotics distribution and firearms charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSEPH RYAN, 58, of Trumbull, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to six months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for unlawful possession and transfer of five firearms on behalf of his drug dealer. Judge Meyer also ordered Ryan to pay a $5,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that an Eagle Butte, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Prohibited Person in Possession of a Firearm.
By USDA Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced updated performance measures for the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program, the Acer Access and Development Program, and the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives. The updates will apply to the fiscal year 2022 grant cycle and beyond.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis Holmes announced that a Worthington, Minnesota, man and an Albert Lea, Minnesota, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a 500 Grams or More of Methamphetamine, were sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lawrence L. Piersol.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 22, 2021
News Release: Former Head of San Francisco Regional Center Thomas Henderson also Admits to Making a False Statement to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.
