News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Robert Sampson, 52, of Gulf Breeze, Florida, pled guilty today to charges of Video Voyeurism and Disorderly Conduct. Sampson surreptitiously videoed eight fellow Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) employees using a hidden recording device that he placed in a restroom at the Veterans...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: CINCINNATI - A Cincinnati nightclub owner pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to federal firearms and tax crimes.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Deontres Javan Taylor (27, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to disaster assistance fraud involving Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) benefits. He faces up to 30 years in federal prison and payment of restitution to the United States in the amount of $8,083.19. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 3, 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 $3.1 million CARES Act Recovery Assistance grant to Ivy Tech Community College, Indianapolis, Indiana, to support renovations needed to enhance its healthcare workforce training programs. This EDA grant, to be matched with $771,130 in local funds, is expected to create 55 jobs and generate $3.5 million in private investment.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Visit the New Mexico Fire Information website at www.nmfireinfo.com.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Strengthening the resilience of rights-respecting democracies is one of the defining challenges of our era. Corruption eats away at the foundations of democratic societies. It makes government less effective, wastes public resources, and exacerbates inequalities in access to services, making it harder...
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: On Tuesday, park rangers responded to two separate incidents where individuals suffered leg injuries from falling on snow.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Presque Isle man was sentenced in federal court today for conspiring to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Donald E. Clark announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: DETROIT - Forty members and associates of a violent, armed, street gang were charged today on an indictment charging violations of Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), Violent Crime in Aid of Racketeering (ViCAR), and various drug and firearms offenses, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin. Thirty-eight individuals are in custody.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: PITTSBURGH, Pa. - The owner of several Pittsburgh-area businesses and former accountant for a nationwide supplier of eggs and related farm products to retail stores has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and tax fraud, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Seventy-One Year Old Attorney Defrauded Victims of Nearly $700,000.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Starting June 1 National Park Service (NPS) contractors will be onsite at the Great Kills Park during two different mobilizations conducting field activities associated with the NPS Comprehensive Environmental, Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) Remedial Investigation (RI).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Wagoner County Murder Case Dismissed After McGirt Decision Prosecuted By United States Attorney’s Office For The Eastern District Of Oklahoma.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: ST. GEORGE, Utah-An Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared for the proposed Shivwits Plateau Landscape Restoration Project (PEPC-98370/ DOI-BLM-AZ-A030-2021-0005). The project is located within the Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument, Mohave County, Arizona. The Monument and this project are cooperatively managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the National Park Service (NPS).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Eddie “Macho" Martinez-Marquez (32, Kissimmee) has pleaded guilty to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine. Martinez-Marquez faces a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years, and up to life, in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: CAPE GIRARDEAU - United States District Judge Rodney W. Sippel sentenced Justin A. Williams to 270 months in prison today. The 29-year-old Cape Girardeau resident pleaded guilty, in December, to one count of receiving child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - United States District Judge Henry E. Autrey sentenced Maurice Woodson to 276 months in prison today. The 34-year-old St. Louis, Missouri resident pleaded guilty, in February, to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine, one count of discharging a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime resulting in death and one count of witness tampering.
By State Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: AUSTIN - A federal judge sentenced 45-year-old Christopher Matthew Meredith of Shawnee, Kansas to 14 years in federal prison today for his scheme to defraud investors of more than $6.8 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 3, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned a five-count indictment charging ANTHONY HARRIS, 51, of Farmington, with multiple counts relating to the illegal distribution of oxycodone.
