News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Gary Jones, the former President of the international United Auto Workers union, was sentenced to 28 months in prison today for conspiring with other UAW officials to embezzle UAW funds and to defraud the United States announced Acting U.S. Attorney Saima S. Mohsin.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Cincinnati - Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) issued Final Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Transportation Services contract. The contract resulting from this procurement is anticipated to be a single-award Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - Lloyd Wings, 41, of St. Louis, pleaded guilty to seven counts of armed robbery, two counts of brandishing a firearm in furtherance of a crime of armed robbery and one count of conspiracy to commit armed robbery. Wings appeared today before United States District Court Judge Ronnie L. White and admitted that he participated in a conspiracy to commit armed robberies and committed a series of armed robberies.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Today’s hearing, which the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee is holding jointly with Mr. Pascrell’s Oversight Subcommittee, focuses on the growing gap between taxes owed to the government and taxes actually paid -- what is commonly referred to as the “tax gap.".
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont stated today that Shiquan Mangual, 27, of Hartford, Connecticut was charged by Criminal Complaint in United States District Court for the District of Vermont with possession with intent to distribute controlled substances.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Water levels at Bighorn Canyon have slowed the placement of facilities on Bighorn Lake. Launch levels at Horseshoe Bend have reached and surpassed the minimum required. Both Horseshoe Bend and Ok-A-Beh Marina are open. The Ok-A-Beh Marina has variety of services including pontoon rentals and a small...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: VALDOSTA, Ga. - A Southwest Georgia businessman and owner of a tractor supply company has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a complicated fraud involving millions of dollars of loans by multiple creditors.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: The wife of Joaquin “El Chapo" Guzman Loera, leader of the Mexican drug trafficking organization known as the Sinaloa Cartel, pleaded guilty today to charges related to international drug trafficking, money laundering, and a criminal violation of the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (the Kingpin Act).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - JON YOUNG, age 35, of New Orleans, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on June 9, 2021 before the Honorable Sarah S. Vance to an indictment charging him with violating the Federal Controlled Substances Act, announced U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: GUAYNABO, Puerto Rico - Various sports facilities in Aguadilla, Aibonito, Barranquitas, Carolina and Toa Baja will be repaired thanks to an obligation of nearly $13.3 million in funds from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Some of these are in the design and planning process, while work in others has already been completed.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Howard Hoffberg, M.D., age 65, of Reisterstown, Maryland, pleaded guilty on June 9, 2021, to the federal charge of conspiracy to violate the anti-kickback statutes, in connection with a scheme to accept payments from a pharmaceutical company in exchange for prescribing a drug the company marketed for breakthrough pain in cancer patients for off-label purposes.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
Release: Today, the United States is designating Sa’id Ahmad Muhammad al-Jamal and other individuals and entities involved in an international network he has used to provide tens of millions of dollars’ worth of funds to the Houthis in cooperation with senior officials in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A married couple from Butler County, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court on fraud and tax charges, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R, Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Two members of the racially motivated violent extremist group “The Base" pleaded guilty today to firearms and alien-related charges arising from federal charges in Maryland and Delaware.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: A west Texas man was sentenced today to 365 months in federal prison for abducting a 9-year-old girl from a birthday party, announced Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Prerak Shah.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced today that Carl Dean Churchman, a former Westinghouse Electric Corporation Vice President and the Project Director of the V.C. Summer Nuclear project, pled guilty today in federal court to making a false statement to an FBI agent during the investigation of the failed nuclear project at the V.C. Summer site.
By State Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
Release: The United States condemns the ongoing suspension of Twitter by the Nigerian government and subsequent threats to arrest and prosecute Nigerians who use Twitter. The United States is likewise concerned that the Nigerian National Broadcasting Commission ordered all television and radio broadcasters to cease using Twitter.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, delivered the following remarks at a hearing entitled, “The HHS’s Fiscal Year 2022 Budget.".
By Interior Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The Bureau of Reclamation is continuing increased flow releases from New Melones Reservoir to assist with Delta outflow requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 10, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Esteven Matos, 29, of Buffalo, NY, along with Lydia Cortes, 50, and Felix Ayende, 45, both of Lackawanna, NY, with narcotics conspiracy, possessing with intent to distribute...
