News from June 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Defendant allegedly defrauded the U.S. Department of Defense and exported technical data controlled under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations and the United States Munitions List to Turkish manufacturer without an export license.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Robert Joseph Maher, 42, formerly of Stockton, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to six years and three months in prison for mail fraud and aggravated identity theft, Acting U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C.--U.S. Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, and U.S. Senator Richard Burr (R-North Carolina), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, reintroduced the Lower Costs, More Cures Act (LCMCA) to lower prescription...
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Education and Labor Committee Republican Leader Virginia Foxx (NC-05) and House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08) sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Miguel Cardona demanding transparency into the use of federal funds issued to K-12 and higher education institutions by the Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - Twin brothers - both former Orange County sheriff’s deputies - pleaded guilty today to federal charges and admitted that they defrauded Orange County taxpayers by submitting approximately two dozen fraudulent military orders to obtain military leave from the Sheriff’s Department so they would not be docked vacation days.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that ELI JUAN MOORE, age 25, a resident of LaPlace, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on June 17, 2021 to an Indictment. In Count One, MOORE pled guilty to conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute a quantity of a mixture...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Jackson, Miss. - An illegal alien from Mexico pled guilty today to attempting to bribe a federal officer, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Jack P. Staton, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in New Orleans.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 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 a Passaic County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 44 months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and distributing a quantity of heroin.
By DOE Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: WEST VALLEY, N.Y. - EM and its cleanup contractor at the West Valley Demonstration Project (WVDP) will resume using a rail line to ship waste offsite starting this month.
By Interior Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: FLAGSTAFF, ARIZONA-In response to the full Stage 3 closure of Coconino National Forest (Coconino National Forest - News & Events (usda.gov) due to extreme fire danger, the Flagstaff Area National Monuments (Walnut Canyon, Sunset Crater Volcano, and Wupatki) will modify operations as follows as of 8am Wednesday June 23, 2021.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M - Israfil Madriaga, 23, of Albuquerque, was sentenced on June 16 in federal court to 15 years and nine months in prison for attempted interference with commerce by robbery and violence, using, carrying and discharging a firearm in furtherance during and in relation to a crime of violence and possessing a firearm in furtherance of such crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement on the House floor in support of H.R. 704, the ARTS Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont, the U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and the Chittenden County State’s Attorney announced that pursuant to plea agreements filed in federal and state court, Eike Blohm, 39, of South...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Richard G. Frohling of the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Four Oaks man was sentenced yesterday to 420 months in prison and a life term of supervised release for sex trafficking of a minor and using the internet to operate a prostitution enterprise. On Dec. 17, 2020, Marvarlus Cortel Snead was convicted of the charges after a four-day jury trial. Snead was also ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution to the minor victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Christopher S. McCallister of Parkersburg, West Virginia, was sentenced today to three years of probation for a drug distribution charge, Acting U.S. Attorney Randolph J. Bernard announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) delivered the following statement on the House floor in support of H.R. 961, the Justice for Juveniles Act...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: Allegedly Failed to Pay Taxes for Nearly a Decade.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Carlo Di Padova, age 61, was sentenced last week to 18 months in prison for mailing a threatening communication and impeding, intimidating, and interfering with a federal official by threat.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former Boston Police officer pleaded guilty today in connection with an ongoing investigation of overtime fraud at the Boston Police Department’s (BPD) evidence warehouse.
