News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Edmond Andrew Yahnahki Shanta, 23, of Mescalero, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe, was sentenced on March 3 in federal court to two years and four months in prison for assault resulting in serious bodily injury in Indian Country. Shanta pleaded guilty to the crime on June 4, 2020.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: SENTENCING - LEONEL GENARO YANEZ. On March 5, Leonel Yanez, 47, was sentenced to 135 months in federal prison for possession with intent to distribute a methamphetamine. Yanez, an illegal immigrant from Morelia, Mexico, met an individual in Mesquite, Texas where he purchased car audio speakers which...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A Dominican man previously residing in Lawrence was sentenced today in federal court in Boston in connection with drug trafficking activities involving fentanyl.
By State Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina - Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett Dehart announced today that Ashley Shay Cook, 38, of Lexington, was sentenced to ten years in federal prison after pleading guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine and cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 12, 2021
News Release: PROVIDENCE - An Abington, Maryland, woman appeared in U.S. District Court in Providence, RI, on Thursday and admitted that she used the stolen identity of a customer of a Maryland business where she was employed in June 2018 and stolen blank checks from two businesses to fraudulently obtain money and services, including for the rental of a home in southern Rhode Island.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Rahn+Bodmer Enters into Deferred Prosecution Agreement for Criminal Misconduct; Agrees to Pay $22 Million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: South Korean National Pleads Guilty to Scheme to Defraud U.S. Department of Defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Memphis, TN - Henly Dolmon, Jr., 38, has been sentenced to 15 months for filing a false federal income tax return. Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph C. Murphy, Jr., announced the sentence today.
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: House Ways and Means Oversight Subcommittee Chair Bill Pascrell, Jr. announced today that the Subcommittee will hold a hearing entitled “Hearing with the IRS Commissioner on the 2021 Filing Season" on Thursday, March 18, 2021 beginning at 2:00 PM EDT. The hearing will take place in 1100 Longworth House Office Building in addition to being accessible via CISCO Webex.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Acting United States Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced that Kyle Robert Dore, 37, of Lake Charles, Louisiana, was sentenced today by United States District Judge James D. Cain, Jr. to 13 months in prison, followed by 1 year of supervised release, for escaping from federal custody.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
Release: House Appropriations Committee Chair and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Chair Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) delivered the following remarks at the Subcommittee's hearing on COVID-19 and the Mental Health and Substance Use Crises.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi - Joseph Benjamin Posey, Jr., 19, of Biloxi, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Sul Ozerden to 33 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of multiple firearms, announced Acting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: MISSOULA - A Missoula certified public accountant convicted of filing false tax returns for a couple’s businesses was sentenced today to two years in prison to be followed by one year of supervised release and fined $10,000, Acting U.S. Attorney Leif Johnson said.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON—Today, DHS filed for public inspection with the Federal Register a rule that formally removes from the Code of Federal Regulations the now-vacated 2019 rule on public charge inadmissibility. On March 9, 2021, a court order vacating the 2019 public charge rule went into effect, and DHS immediately stopped applying the rule. Today’s rule completes the last step in implementing that vacatur.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Two Louisiana women, former jail deputies, were sentenced today to over a year in prison and six months in prison respectively for their roles in covering up a civil rights violation arising out of an inmate’s death at the St. Bernard Parish Prison (SBPP).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: A South Korean national pleaded guilty today to participating in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Defense.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: Two Louisiana men, former jail supervisors, were sentenced today to five years in prison and over four years in prison respectively for being deliberately indifferent to an inmate’s serious medical needs.
By Fed Newswire | Mar 11, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON — Five federal regulatory agencies today requested public comment on 24 proposed Interagency Questions and Answers Regarding Private Flood Insurance.
