News from May 2021
By DOJ Gazette | May 7, 2021
The US Justice Department published a two page notice on May 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Member of White Supremacist Gang Pleads Guilty to Violent Assault and Conspiracy to Sell Firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Convicted of sex abuse offense. A Guatemalan man who illegally returned to the United States after being deported once was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in federal prison. Moses Suarez-Garcia age 39, a citizen of Guatemala, illegally present in the United States and residing in Dubuque, Iowa, received...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Moustapha Diakhate, 45, of Stamford, was arrested today on a federal criminal complaint charging him with bank fraud and wire fraud offenses related to his receipt of nearly $2.9 million in COVID-19 relief funds guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: DENVER - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has provided more than $1.8 million in Public Assistance funding for the COVID-19 response in Thornton, Colo. The assistance was made available under a major disaster declaration issued March 28, 2020. FEMA has disbursed a total of $831 million for Colorado’s COVID-19 response to date.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Former Deputy Campaign Manager Pleads Guilty to Theft of Campaign Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Charleston, South Carolina --- Acting United States Attorney M. Rhett DeHart announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of South Carolina will be honoring the 10 South Carolina law enforcement officers and three law enforcement K9s lost in the line of duty in 2020, while also recognizing the daily sacrifices made by all law enforcement officers, during National Police Week, observed from Sunday, May 9 through Saturday, May 15, 2021.
By Homeland Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Norfolk, Virginia - As vaccination opportunities expand in the Commonwealth of Virginia, the FEMA-supported Military Circle Mall Community Vaccination Center, in partnership with Virginia Department of Health, will kick off an additional opportunity for residents to receive their first doses of Pfizer.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Shawn R. Marshall, 40, formerly of Akron, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 46 months in prison for mailing threatening communications from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: The week of May 9th to May 15th will be recognized around the country as National Police Week. This tradition of recognizing the service and sacrifice of law enforcement began in 1962, when President John F. Kennedy issued the first proclamation for Peace Officer’s Memorial Day and National Police Week.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Bolivar, TN - On May 4th and 5th, 2021, the Hardeman County Sheriff’s Office conducted a sex offender compliance operation, Operation Chickasaw, which was supported operationally and tactically by the United States Marshals Service and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation.
By USDA Newswire | May 7, 2021
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture the follow activity.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Two South Jersey men were arrested for conspiring to manufacture and distribute firearms, including machine guns, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced today.
By DOL Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Dear Mr. Dodaro: As chairs of the House Committee on Education and Labor and the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), we write to request the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct a review of target-date funds (TDFs). The employer-provided retirement system must...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Defendant used embezzled funds to pay for vehicle and Vermont vacation home.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that the following persons were arraigned or appeared this week before U.S. Magistrate judges on indictments handed down by the Grand Jury or on criminal complaints. The charging documents are merely accusations and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - An Anchorage man was sentenced to 18 months and 19 days in federal prison followed by one year of supervised release for kidnapping his two young children in 2014 while on a family vacation in the Philippines.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: Had recently stolen the gun. A Decorah man who unlawfully possessed a gun while a drug user was sentenced yesterday to 46 months in prison. Lester Wallace Erickson, III, age 30, from Decorah, Iowa, received the prison sentence after a Dec. 21, 2020, guilty plea to possession of a firearm by a prohibited...
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Joplin, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine that was shipped via UPS from Arizona.
By DOJ Newswire | May 7, 2021
News Release: DAVENPORT, Iowa - On Tuesday, May 4, 2021, United States District Court Chief Judge John A. Jarvey sentenced Christopher Mateo Perez, age 29, of Rock Island, to 180 months in prison for Felon in Possession of a Firearm announced Acting United States Attorney Richard D. Westphal. Perez was ordered to serve three years of supervised release to follow his prison term as well as pay $100 to the Crime Victims’ Fund.
