BATTLE CREEK, Michigan, Jan. 27 -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Logistics Agency issued the following news: Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services Anchorage got its close-up Jan. 21 when the site was featured on NBC-affiliate KTUU-TV's recurring segment "Inside the Gates." The weekly news production introduces the public to various commands and missions behind the fences of the sprawling Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson and its tremendous economic impact on the Anchorage area  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission issued the following litigation release (No. 21-civ-10199; E.D. Mich. filed [January 28, 2011): The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Detroit-area businessperson Viktor Gjonaj for allegedly defrauding members of the Albanian-American community out of approximately $26.4 million, some of which he spent playing the Michigan State Lottery. According to the SEC's complaint, from at least mid-2016 to 2019, Gjonaj raised ap  more

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Jan. 29 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Andrew Birge, issued the following news release on Jan. 28, 2021: United States Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded a total of $152,430 in Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) grant funds to local partners for the year 2021. The PSN grant program works to reduce and prevent violent crime by supporting a combination of community-based violence prevention programs an  more

DETROIT, Michigan, Jan. 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Matthew Schneider, issued the following news release on Jan. 27: FCA US LLC (FCA, a/k/a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles), one of the big three American automobile manufacturers, has been charged with and has agreed to plead guilty to conspiring to violate the Labor Management Relations Act, also known as the Taft-Hartley Act, by making illegal payments to officers of the United Auto Workers union, United States Atto  more

DETROIT, Michigan, Jan. 28 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Matthew Schneider, issued the following news release on Jan. 27: Edward "Nick" Robinson, the former President of the United Auto Workers Midwest CAP and the former Director of the UAW Labor and Employment Training Corporation, was sentenced to 12 months in prison and was directed to pay $342,000 in restitution to the UAW and the IRS, pending a final restitution hearing, based on convictions for conspiring with  more

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan, Jan. 29 -- The U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Andrew Birge, issued the following news release on Jan. 27, 2021: One of six men accused of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer pleaded guilty to that offense today in federal court, U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today. Ty Gerard Garbin, of Hartland, Michigan, admitted his guilt in a change of plea hearing conducted by Chief United States District Court Judge Robert J. Jonker. T  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, Jan. 27 -- 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 997 million pounds of milk during December, up 4.9 percent from a year ago, according to Marlo Johnson, Regional Director of USDA, NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Production per cow in Michigan averaged 2,270 pounds for December, 45 pounds above December 2019. The dairy herd was  more