News from May 2021
By Homeland Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – Today, Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin after consultation with the Intelligence Community and law enforcement partners. The NTAS Bulletin advises that the United States is facing threats that have evolved significantly ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: A federal court in the Northern District of Mississippi has permanently enjoined a Senatobia, Mississippi, tax return preparer from preparing returns for others and from owning, operating, or franchising any tax return preparation business in the future.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury in the Central District of California returned an indictment Wednesday charging a Deputy U.S. Marshal with conspiracy to commit cyberstalking, cyberstalking, and perjury.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – An Ohio man and rheumatology professor and researcher with strong ties to China was sentenced to 37 months in prison for making false statements to federal authorities as part of an immunology research fraud scheme. As part of his sentence, Zheng was also ordered to pay more than $3.4 million in restitution to the National Institute of Health (NIH) and approximately $413,000 to The Ohio State University.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON – A Virginia man and former Army Green Beret was sentenced today to 188 months in prison for conspiring with Russian intelligence operatives to provide them with U.S. national defense information.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: The Department of Justice today filed a criminal information charging Swiss Life Holding AG (Swiss Life Holding), Swiss Life (Liechtenstein) AG (Swiss Life Liechtenstein), Swiss Life (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Swiss Life Singapore), and Swiss Life (Luxembourg) S.A. (Swiss Life Luxembourg), collectively, ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Three Peruvian nationals pleaded guilty to operating a series of call centers in Peru that defrauded Spanish-speaking U.S. residents by threatening, among other things, arrest and deportation.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: A North Carolina businessman was sentenced today to three years in prison for tax fraud and illegal possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Oklahoma has returned separate indictments charging 11 defendants with murder and other various violent crimes arising out of Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: The president and owner of Oil Chem Inc. was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for violating the Clean Water Act stemming from illegal discharges of landfill leachate — totaling more than 47 million gallons — into the city of Flint sanitary sewer system over an eight and a half year period.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: A resident of Palm Beach County, Florida, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for not reporting his foreign financial accounts from 2006 through 2015 and for willfully evading the assessment of millions in taxes from 2007 through 2014.
By DOJ Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: A Florida man was sentenced today to more than four years in prison for operating an investment scheme in which he used investor funds to repay other investors and misappropriated funds for himself.
By Fed Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced its approval of the applications under section 3 of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 by (1) The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to acquire BBVA USA Bancshares, Inc., Houston, Texas, and thereby indirectly acquire its subsidiary state member bank, BBVA USA, Birmingham, Alabama, and (2) PNC Financial's subsidiary, PNC Bancorp, Inc., Wilmington, Delaware, to acquire BBVA USA.
By Fed Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: The Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced the third extension of a rule to bolster the effectiveness of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). Like the earlier extensions, this one will temporarily modify the Board's rules so that certain bank directors and shareholders can apply to their banks for PPP loans for their small businesses.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will travel to Copenhagen, Reykjavik, and Kangerlussuaq from May 16-20.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: On behalf of the people of the United States, I congratulate the people of Paraguay as you celebrate the 210th anniversary of your independence.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman has just completed his first visit to the region as U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa, traveling to Egypt, Eritrea, Sudan, and Ethiopia from May 4 to 13, 2021.
By State Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: The following is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price: Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani today. Secretary Blinken conveyed Eid greetings and expressed his deepest condolences to the families of those lost in recent violence in Afghanistan, including in the ...
By State Newswire | May 14, 2021
News Release: MR PRICE: Good afternoon, everyone, and thanks very much for joining today’s call. We’re glad to have an opportunity to speak about the Secretary’s travel next week. We’re joined today by Ambassador Marcia Bernicat. She is the Acting Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental ...
By Commerce News Now | May 14, 2021
News Release: U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina M. Raimondo met virtually today with Brazilian Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes. During the call, Secretary Raimondo informed Minister Guedes of her recent appointment of three new private sector members to the U.S. Section of the U.S.-Brazil CEO Forum. The Secretary and Minister Guedes also discussed their mutual commitment to continue to work through the Forum and U.S.-Brazil CEO Commercial Dialogue to grow bilateral trade and investment.
