DETROIT, Michigan, March 5 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Saima Mohsin, issued the following news release on March 3, 2021: A Canadian man was sentenced today to 71 months imprisonment after having pleaded guilty to possessing with intent to distribute marijuana and to unlawful entry into the United States, announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin. Mohsin was joined in the announcement by Special Agent in Charge Vance Callander of Homeland Securit  more

DETROIT, Michigan, March 2 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Saima S. Mohsin, issued the following news release on March 1, 2021: FCA US LLC (FCA, a/k/a Fiat Chrysler Automobiles), one of the big three American automobile manufacturers, pleaded 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, Acting United States Attorney Saima S. Mohsin  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued the following news release: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office for Civil Rights ("HHS OCR") and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan have entered into a Voluntary Resolution Agreement with Great Lakes Surgical Associates ("GLSA") to protect patients from discrimination on the basis of HIV status. The Complainant, an African American man and a Medicare beneficiary, init  more

WASHINGTON, March 4 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on March 3, 2021: The chief executive officer of a Michigan and Ohio-based group of pain clinics and other medical providers was sentenced today to 15 years in prison for developing and approving a corporate policy to administer unnecessary back injections to patients in exchange for prescriptions of over 6.6 million doses of medically unnecessary opioids. Mashiyat Rashid, 40, of West Bloomfield, Michigan,   more

DETROIT, Michigan, March 5 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Saima S. Mohsin, issued the following news release on March 4, 2021: As part of the federal response to the COVID-19 outbreak, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Michigan is reminding landlords of their obligations and tenants of their rights under the Centers for Disease Control's (CDC) Order temporarily halting residential evictions of tenants who meet certain income eligibility re  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, March 2 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Prices received by Michigan farmers for the full month of January 2021 are listed in the table below. Some Michigan highlights were: January corn, at $4.29 per bushel, increased $0.21 from December and increased $0.37 from last year; January soybeans, at $11.80 per bushel, increased $0.50 from last month and incr  more

DETROIT, Michigan, March 4 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following news release: The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) at Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW), in cooperation with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Delta Air Lines, is beginning a new round of testing of a biometric facial comparison technology at the TSA checkpoint to verify the identity of select Delta Air Lines SkyMiles(R) member  more