News from March 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: HOUSTON - Authorities are seeking potential victims following the arrest of a 32-year-old Spring man on federal civil rights violations, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Audrey Strauss, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the conviction today of HAMID “Ray" AKHAVAN and RUBEN WEIGAND, following a four-week trial before the Honorable Jed S. Rakoff. AKHAVAN and WEIGAND devised a complex scheme involving fake companies, false websites...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - Eight people were charged in federal court in Boston in connection with an investigation into a Boston-based fentanyl and cocaine trafficking and money laundering organization.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: At the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), February 22 - March 23, the United States actively reengaged with the Council after a two-and-a-half-year absence and announced its candidacy for a member seat for the 2022-2024 term. With introspection about the United States’ own human rights...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Devonnte White, 29, of Huntersville, North Carolina, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to possessing with intent to distribute 400 grams or more of fentanyl. The charge carries a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, a maximum of life, and a $10,000,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: HIGH REPRESENTATIVE BORRELL: I’m very pleased to welcome Secretary Blinken in person here in Brussels after our initial virtual exchanges. Today we open a new chapter in our relations marked by stronger cooperation on key foreign policy and security issues. I’m happy to see that our meeting confirms that a strong European Union-U.S. partnership is crucial to support democratic values as well as global and regional stability, prosperity, and conflict resolution.
By State Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: At the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC), February 22 - March 23, the United States actively reengaged with the Council after a two-and-a-half-year absence and announced its candidacy for a member seat for the 2022-2024 term. With introspection about the United States’ own human rights...
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC -Today, U.S. Senator Rob Portman, Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, announced that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (TVTP) program will distribute up to $20 million in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: ROANOKE, Va. - Jeffery Leedy, a former emergency medical services worker for Roanoke County Emergency Medical Services, pleaded guilty yesterday in U.S. District Court in Roanoke to tampering with vials of fentanyl and hydromorphone, Acting United States Attorney Daniel P. Bubar announced.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: AgLab, a new science-education website operated by USDA's Agricultural Research Service, is now "open for business" to student and educators alike at.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Defendant Laundered More Than $1.1 Million through a Hong Kong Shell Company.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: Defendant had Applied to be a Substitute Middle School Teacher.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that distributed at least 12 pounds of methamphetamine in the Joplin area, as well as for illegally possessing numerous firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
Release: SEATTLE - Ahead of what is projected to be a busy spring break travel period, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) highlighted its use of touchless technologies and modified security procedures to help protect the health and safety of travelers departing Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Daniel Miller, age 26, of Stamford, New York, was sentenced today to serve 210 months (17.5 years) in federal prison for using his cellphone to upload child pornography to an online cloud storage account announced Acting United States Attorney Antoinette T. Bacon and Special Agent in Charge Thomas F. Relford of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a drug-trafficking conspiracy that distributed at least 12 pounds of methamphetamine in the Joplin area, as well as for illegally possessing numerous firearms and thousands of rounds of ammunition.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: LOUISVILLE, KY. - Travis Puckett, 23, originally of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, previously pled guilty before United States District Judge Rebecca Grady Jennings for attempted online enticement of a minor, announced Acting United States Attorney Michael A. Bennett. Today, Judge Jennings sentenced Puckett to 10 years in prison followed by a 15-year term of Supervised Release. There is no parole in the federal system. Puckett will be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - The owner of Orange County-based temporary staffing companies, who previously was charged with failing to pay more than $29 million in payroll taxes, was indicted today on six additional federal charges that he caused one of his companies to file false tax returns that failed to report an additional $29.6 million in payroll taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2021
News Release: A Coppell businessman pleaded guilty today to orchestrating a fraudulent scheme to obtain approximately $24.8 million in forgivable Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans and laundering the proceeds.
By Homeland Newswire | Mar 24, 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 Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention.
