News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Admitted She Continued to File Fraudulent Tax Returns After Her IRS E-Filing Privileges were Revoked as a Result of a Previous Felony Conviction.

By US DOT Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC - Today, Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR) and Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ) announced the Subcommittee will hold a hearing titled, “Full Steam Ahead for Rail: Why Rail is More Relevant Than Ever for Economic and Environmental Progress." This is the first Subcommittee hearing that newly elected Chair Payne will preside over.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Hot Springs, AR - Hot Springs National Park is planning to conduct prescribed fire operations between March 8 and March 19, 2021. Exact dates will be determined depending on favorable weather conditions and will be posted as soon as fire specialists make the determination to conduct a burn. Controlled burns may be completed along Blacksnake Road near Crabtree Cemetery.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Vaughn Watrous previously convicted for robbing seven banks.

By Commerce Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Senate Finance Committee Chair Ron Wyden, D-Ore., today released the following statement on the agreement on jobless benefits...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Acting United States Attorney Lisa G. Johnston announced that Trina Tellez-Mullins, 36, of Oak Hill, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for possession with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: SAIPAN, MP - The United States filed a civil complaint seeking to enjoin a Saipan physician from unlawfully dispensing opioids and other controlled substances. The government alleges that Dr. John L. Doyle unlawfully issued controlled substance prescriptions in violation of the Controlled Substances Act under Title 21 of the United States Code.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney Karin Hoppmann announces the return of an indictment charging Henry Lee White, III (26, Orlando) with sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, transportation of an individual in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution, coercion and enticement...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 21-year-old woman from Houston has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction for attempting to import approximately 55 kilograms of meth, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Man Sentenced for Role in Investment-Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - A Cynthiana, Ky., man, Randall Perry, 54, was sentenced on Thursday to 36 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Karen Caldwell, for mail fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: SENTENCING - GERSON GAMALIEL ROJO GUZMAN.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: BOISE - Michael Robert Gorley, 29, of Filer, Idaho, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 292 months in federal prison for sexual exploitation of children, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael M. Gonzalez, Jr. announced today. Chief U.S. District Judge David C. Nye also ordered Gorley to serve five years of supervised release following his prison sentence. Gorley pleaded guilty to the charge on May 12, 2020.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a settlement agreement with Danbury Hospital, which owns and operates Morganti Wound Care Center (“MWCC"), to resolve allegations that MWCC was not operating in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA").
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Ray Donovan, New York Division announced today that Alexis Lopez, 27, and Ivan Irizarry-Ramos, 35, both of Buffalo, NY, were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiring to possess with intent to distribute fentanyl. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: STATESBORO, GA: A Statesboro man arrested after a shooting on a residential street has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison while still facing state charges.

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Blair conspired to distribute 16 pounds of methamphetamine across California, Iowa and South Dakota.

By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: Hopkins, SC - Park rangers from Congaree National Park, along with staff from Kings Mountain National Military Park, Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park and the SC Forestry Commission, will be conducting a prescribed burn on Thursday, March 11, weather and conditions permitting. The...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: On Saturday, April 17, Petersburg National Battlefield will participate in the American Battlefield Trust’s annual Park Day. People interested in volunteering to help maintain the site where the longest event of the Civil War occurred are asked to preregister by contacting Volunteer Coordinator Meredith...

By DOJ Newswire | Mar 5, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Pennsylvania doctor today admitted participating in two conspiracies to receive bribes and kickbacks in exchange for ordering genetic tests, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.