News from May 2021
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that LEE BLANCHETTE, 58, of Farmington, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to one count of bank fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today, that THOMAS LANDRY (“LANDRY"), age 46, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Susan Morgan to concurrent sentences of 151 months (Count 1) and 48 months (Count 2), respectively.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Assistant U. S. Attorney Melanie K. Pierson (619) 546-7976.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Monticello man was sentenced today to 30 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for conspiring to commit arson at a Minneapolis bank.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: State Route 410/Chinook Pass and State Route 123/Cayuse Pass through Mount Rainier National Park will reopen for the season by 8 a.m. Friday, May 28, in time for Memorial Day weekend, as will Stevens Canyon Road, from SR 123 to the Grove of the Patriarchs Trailhead.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - The final two defendants charged as a result of a long-term investigation known as “Second Wave" pleaded guilty this week and admitted their roles in a drug trafficking enterprise operating in and around Charleston and the Upper Kanawha Valley between 2018 and August 2020. Tonya Simerly...
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: Leonard C Boyle, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ERIC CHAMBERS, 37, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to 260 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for his role in several violent armed robberies in 2017 during which two individuals were shot and wounded.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: The Finance Committee meets this morning to discuss four nominations that will round out President Biden’s team leading the Treasury Department.
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Reform passed four good governance bills, including the No CORRUPTION Act (H.R. 3327), the Performance Enhancement Reform Act (H.R. 2617), the Air America Act of 2021 (H.R. 1297), and the Gold Star Children Act (H.R. 3367).
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: CONCORD - Joseph Taylor, 31, of Manchester, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for possession of a firearm and ammunition by a convicted felon, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Erie, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud and engaging in monetary transactions in property derived from specified unlawful activity, Acting United States Attorney Stephen R. Kaufman announced today.
By DOE Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - An EM team at the Savannah River Site (SRS) has finished safely removing sediment from a key component of a basin used to store spent nuclear fuel from former production reactors, and from foreign and domestic research reactor programs.
By Interior Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: WEST GLACIER, Mont. [May 24, 2021] - Glacier National Park announces that Many Glacier Road will remain closed to vehicle, hiking and bicycling traffic through Memorial Day weekend.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Mercer County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 84 months in prison for his role as a member of a drug trafficking conspiracy and his possession of multiple semiautomatic firearms in furtherance of his unlawful drug-trafficking activities, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig announced.
By Homeland Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: PENSACOLA, Fla - FEMA has approved a grant of $2,024,999 to Bay County to install permanent emergency bypass pumps at 36 lift stations within the county. The grant is funded by FEMA’s Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).
By Commerce Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: The Census Open Innovation Labs, in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), is set to host a virtual event May 25, 2021, showcasing digital solutions designed to address COVID-19 diagnostic data challenges. These digital solutions were created through a COVID-19 TOPx tech sprint with input from leading government and industry experts.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: RICHMOND, Va. - A Richmond man who was convicted by a federal jury in March was sentenced yesterday to 12 years in prison for distributing fentanyl in the Mosby Court neighborhood.
By DOE Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: RICHLAND, Wash. - DOE recently bestowed the prestigious 2021 Classification Award of Excellence to an employee of EM Richland Operations Office contractor Hanford Mission Integration Solutions (HMIS) for his outstanding contributions to the Department’s classification program.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: MACON, Ga. - The primary supplier of a heroin distribution ring operating between Atlanta and Macon, which funneled up to 30,000 doses of heroin into the region over a three month span, pleaded guilty to his crime in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 25, 2021
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LILBEAR GEORGE, 31, and CHUKWUDI OFOMATA, 35, both of New Orleans, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Lance Africk to Count Three of the Second Superseding Indictment, charging them with Using, Carrying, Brandishing, and Discharging...
