News from October 2021
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A former bank teller was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for her role in a scheme to fraudulently obtain funds from customer bank accounts.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - A Gordonsville, Virginia man pleaded guilty today to federal Hobbs Act robbery charges in connection to a series of armed robberies that took place at commercial businesses in Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and Stafford County.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: HARRISBURG, Pa. - Delaware and Dauphin counties are now eligible to receive Public Assistance (PA). PA provides funding for repairs of public infrastructure. Federal aid has been granted to augment state and local recovery efforts in the areas damaged by the Remnants of Hurricane Ida. Damage assessments are continuing, and additional counties may be designated at a later date.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: BATON ROUGE, La. - If you disagree with FEMA’s decision on disaster assistance, you have the option to submit an appeal and have FEMA look at your case again.
By Press Release | Oct 22, 2021
The White House today announced the intent to nominate Martha Williams as Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Martha has been serving as Principal Deputy Director of the Fish and Wildlife Service since January 20, 2021, exercising the delegable authority of the Director. The nomination will now be considered by the U.S. Senate.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Parmelee, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Sexual Abuse.
By DOL Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: DRUMMONDS, TN - The death of a 67-year-old worker at a Drummonds worksite in April 2021 might have been prevented had their employer not ignored federal workplace requirements, a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration investigation has found.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: BOSTON - A U.S. Postal employee pleaded guilty today in connection with stealing mail believed to contain controlled substances.
By State Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
Release: The below is attributable to Spokesperson Ned Price.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: Miami, Florida - A man who coerced two women and a girl into selling themselves for sex in Miami during the 2020 Superbowl was found guilty of commercial sex trafficking by a federal jury in Ft. Lauderdale this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Jan Sharp announced that Jose Ivan Marino-Meza, 25, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced today by United States District Judge John M. Gerrard to 11 years and three months in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute 50 grams or more...
By State Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Mitt Romney (R-Utah), chairman and ranking member of the East Asia Subcommittee on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), chairman of the Senate ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - Yesterday, Virgil Fabian Brown, Jr., 44, of Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Michael T. Liburdi to 54 months in prison, followed by ten years of supervised release. Brown previously pleaded guilty to two counts of Abusive Sexual Contact.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: Conspiracy filled more than 1,500 unlawful prescriptions in 32-month period.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 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 | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: ST. LOUIS - This week the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals Service, and U.S. Postal Inspection Service arrested 17 people in Missouri, Arizona, California, and Mexico linked to an organized multi-state drug trafficking conspiracy.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - On Wednesday, a federal grand jury returned a fifty-count indictment, charging Linh Cao Nguyen, M.D., 48, of Peoria, Arizona, with Health Care Fraud, False Statements Relating to a Health Care Matter, and Aggravated Identity Theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Vermont announced that Mark Anthony Eusebio, 28, of New York, New York, was sentenced today in United States District Court in Burlington to 30 months of incarceration following his guilty plea to conspiring to distribute and possess with intent...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams and Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw hosted a town hall meeting this week to discuss the Asian Community Safety Initiative, in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 22, 2021
News Release: A federal grand jury recently returned a three-count indictment charging Lestreonia Renee Rodrigue, age 26, of Plaquemine, Louisiana, with mail fraud and wire fraud. Rodrigue appeared for her arraignment today and pled not guilty to the pending charges.
