NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, March 7 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Vanessa Roberts Avery, issued the following news release on March 6, 2023: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRIAN HUGHES, 58, formerly of Madison, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to 30 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for defrauding investors of two companies, and for t  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 8 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: Officers with Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) Boston's Fugitive Operations Team in Hartford, Connecticut, arrested a 38-year-old unlawfully present Ecuadorian woman wanted on charges of fraud and embezzlement in Ecuador. Officials arrested her in New Britain, Connecticut, on Feb. 27. The Ecuadorian citizen, who entered the United States th  more

WASHINGTON, March 9 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Two former Wall Street traders were each sentenced today to one year and one day in prison for engaging in a multi-year fraud scheme to manipulate U.S. commodities markets for publicly traded precious metals futures contracts. According to court documents, Edward Bases, 61, of New Canaan, Connecticut, a former senior trader employed at Deutsche Bank and Bank of America in New York, and John Pacilio, 59, of  more

WASHINGTON, March 11 -- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued the following news release: Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff will discuss the 2022 safety performance of the Millstone nuclear power plant during a meeting with the Connecticut Nuclear Energy Advisory Council on Thursday, March 16. The two-unit plant, operated by Dominion Nuclear, is located in Waterford, Connecticut. The meeting will be held at the Waterford Town Hall, 15 Rope Ferry Road, beginning at 6:30 p.m. NRC staff resp  more