ANCHORAGE, Alaska, March 25 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Alaska, S. Lane Tucker, issued the following news release: A federal District Court judge sentenced an Anchorage man to 21 years imprisonment followed by six years of supervised release on March 22, 2023, for his role in a drug trafficking organization that spanned multiple states. According to court documents, Dustin Noonan pleaded guilty to drug conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy for his role in a lucrative drug tra  more

DETROIT, Michigan, March 24 (TNSres) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Detroit District issued the following news release: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, revises schedule following public scoping for Enbridge Line 5 Tunnel permit application review. Enbridge Energy seeks authorization to cross the Straits of Mackinac and impact adjacent wetlands for construction of the Line 5 Tunnel. The Detroit District, responsible for evaluating the permit application, received more t  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release on March 23, 2023: * * * Funds from EPA's New Climate Pollution Reduction Grant Program were made possible by President Biden's Inflation Reduction Act * * * The Biden-Harris Administration announced Michigan would receive a $3 million planning grant to develop innovative strategies to cut climate pollution and build clean energy economies. Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agenc  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- The Federal Communications Commission's Wireline Competition Bureau issued the following public notice (WC Docket No. 23-113) on March 24, 2023: * * * Re: Copper Retirement Network Change Certification Received Michigan Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T Michigan (AT&T), an incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC), has filed certification that public notice of network change(s) involving the retirement of copper has been provided through its publicly accessible Internet s  more

WASHINGTON, March 24 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release on March 23, 2023: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights (OCR), in partnership with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan (DOJ), entered into an agreement with Dearborn Obstetrics and Gynecology, P.C. (Dearborn OBGYN), to resolve an alleged federal civil rights violation. OCR received a complaint alleging that Dearborn OBGYN ref  more

WASHINGTON, March 14 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: The Justice Department announced today that it has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit under the Fair Housing Act against the owner and manager of rental properties in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, alleges that Mohamad Hussein, who owns or manages over two dozen rental properties in Dearborn Heights, has subjected actual and   more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A Michigan business owner was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison for failing to collect and pay over to the IRS employment taxes withheld from his employees' wages. According to court documents and statements made in court, Yigal Ziv of West Bloomfield owned and operated Multinational Technologies, Inc. (MTI), a software development firm based in Walled Lake. Ziv was responsible for filing  more

WASHINGTON, March 13 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: Two Michigan nonprofit organizations, the Michigan Education Association (MEA) and the Michigan Education Special Services Association (MESSA), have agreed to settle allegations that the organizations violated the False Claims Act (FCA) by applying for and obtaining loans under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) for which they knew or should have known they were ineligible. Congress created the PPP in   more

WASHINGTON, March 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release: A Southfield, Michigan-headquartered bank holding company has agreed to plead guilty to securities fraud for filing false securities statements relating to its 2017 initial public offering (IPO) and its 2018 and 2019 annual filings. According to a signed plea agreement that will be publicly filed in court, Sterling Bancorp, Inc. (the Company) was the holding company for its wholly owned subsidiary, Sterli  more

DETROIT, Michigan, March 24 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Dawn N. Ison, issued the following news release: The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan resolved its investigation of Dearborn Obstetrics and Gynecology, P.C. The complainant, who is deaf and utilizes American Sign Language (ASL) as her primary means of communication, alleged that Dearborn Obstetrics failed to provide her with free ASL interpretation services and dismissed he  more

DETROIT, Michigan, March 22 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Dawn N. Ison, issued the following news release on March 21, 2023: A Center Line woman was sentenced to 18 months in prison today based on her conviction for stealing over $300,000 as part of a wire fraud scheme targeting pandemic unemployment assistance benefits, announced United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison. Joining Ison in the announcement were James A. Tarasca, Special Agent in Charge of the Detroit Fiel  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 22 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Dairy herds in Michigan produced 927 million pounds of milk during February, up 3.1 percent from a year ago, according to Marlo D. Johnson, Regional Director of the USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Production per cow in Michigan averaged 2,130 pounds for February, 30 pounds above February 2022. The dairy  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 21 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Michigan honey production for 2022 totaled 3.36 million pounds, down 34 percent from 2021. This estimate included honey from producers with 5 or more colonies. Nationally, Michigan ranked ninth in honey production in 2022. Yield s from Michigan's 82,000 honey producing colonies averaged 41 pounds in 2022, down 10  more

WASHINGTON, March 23 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia issued the following news release on March 22, 2023: A Michigan man was sentenced on a felony charge for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Anthony Puma, 50, of Brownstown, Michigan was sentenced yeste  more

BECKLEY, West Virginia, March 24 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia, Will Thompson, issued the following news release on March 23, 2023: Kyle L. Thomas, also known as "Trip," 23, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced today to one year and 10 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for distribution of fentanyl. According to court documents and statements made in court, on October 18, 2021, Thomas sold a quantity of fentanyl to a confiden  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 (TNSres) -- The White House issued the following fact sheet on March 23, 2023: * * * Congressional Republicans Plans To Gut Medicaid and the ACA Would Have Devastating Consequences in Michigan Congressional Republicans have yet to release a budget, but the plans that have been offered and reported so far are a five-alarm fire for American families - especially when it comes to their health care costs. Not only has virtually every Republican budget or fiscal plan over the  more

WASHINGTON, March 22 -- The White House sent to the Senate the nominations of 15 individuals for positions in the federal government on March 21, 2023: * * * * James J. Blanchard, of Michigan, to be a Member of the United States Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy for a term expiring July 1, 2025, vice Anne Terman Wedner, term expired. * Tanya Monique Jones Bosier, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of fifte  more