News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - An owner of a New Hampshire asbestos abatement company pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston to making false statements to employee pension plans.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newark man today admitted to narcotics distribution and firearm offenses in connection with a drug trafficking organization, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: Dunbar was previously charged with crimes including embezzlement, marriage fraud, and naturalization fraud in September 2020.
By US DOT Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - A new rule from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will enable the sharing of pilot records among employers in an electronic database maintained by the agency. The final rule for the Pilot Records Database requires air carriers and certain other operators to report pilots’ employment ...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: ANCHORAGE - A federal jury convicted a Compton, California, man yesterday for possession of methamphetamine with intent to distribute, attempted distribution of methamphetamine and cocaine, maintaining a place for drug purposes and illegally possessing firearms. The convictions followed a five-day jury trial before Chief United States District Judge Timothy M. Burgess.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Sean M. Andre, age 31, of Brooklyn, New York, pled guilty yesterday to conspiring with an Ulster County man to fraudulently obtain more than $5.6 million in government-backed loans meant for businesses struggling with the financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Raytown, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for drug trafficking and illegally possessing firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - The retired chief of the Bordentown Township Police Department was sentenced today to 28 months in prison for lying to FBI agents who were questioning him about violating an 18-year-old man’s civil rights during an arrest, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By DOE Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR), issued the following statement in response to reports that the Biden administration will rely on foreign countries to supply the nation with critical minerals instead of creating a United States supply chain.
By Homeland Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: Philadelphia’s two federally supported Community Vaccination Centers complete their mission on Tuesday, May 25th, 2021. Both the Center City Vaccination Center (CCVC) at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, and the Esperanza Community Vaccination Center (ECVC) in Hunting Park, will deliver their last vaccine doses Tuesday afternoon, having successfully delivered more than 350,000 vaccinations and accounting for nearly 25% of all vaccinations in Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Houston man has pleaded guilty to federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Nicholas J. Ganjei today.
By Commerce Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House Committee on Natural Resources held a markup, reporting a total of eight bills out of committee. Several of these bills were bipartisan, andpassed by unanimous consent:, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska),amends the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Today, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner announced a significant expansion of the U.S. Attorney’s Office’s collaborative initiative with state and local law enforcement to prosecute the illegal possession of firearms in Baltimore. The ...
By State Newswire | May 26, 2021
Release: SECRETARY BLINKEN: Let me start with a few words before taking some questions. And let me start, first of all, by congratulating the people of Jordan on the 75th anniversary of the kingdom’s independence this week. I’d very much like to thank His Majesty King Abdullah for a very warm welcome today and a very good conversation. Our time in Jordan has been brief, but we had very broad-ranging and very substantive discussions at the palace today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Sean Barrett, 30, of Sanborn, NY, who was convicted of delay or destruction of mail, was fined $600.00 by U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthy.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: Three men have been sentenced in U.S. District Court for child pornography crimes, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By State Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: Washington, DC- U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (R-Texas), lead Republican of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken requesting an explanation...
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: Federal charges in the Western District of Arkansas involve wire fraud and money laundering related to the theft of federal healthcare funds.
By DOJ Newswire | May 26, 2021
News Release: NEW BERN, N.C. - A federal jury convicted a Wilmington, North Carolina man yesterday on charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute one kilogram or more of a mixture and substance containing a detectible amount of phencyclidine (PCP), a quantity of cocaine, heroin, and marijuana and possession with the intent to distribute a quantity of PCP and aiding and abetting.
By State Newswire | May 26, 2021
Release: The United States strongly condemns the detention of civilian leaders of Mali’s transition government. We support the May 24 joint statement of ECOWAS and the African Union, and we are working closely with the local transition monitoring committee and other international actors to seek the immediate and unconditional release of those detained and resumption of the civilian-led transition.
