DETROIT, Michigan, May 12 -- The Acting U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Saima S. Mohsin, issued the following news release on May 11, 2021: Dennis Williams, the former President of the international United Auto Workers union, was sentenced to twenty-one months in prison today for conspiring with other UAW officials to embezzle UAW funds announced Acting U.S. Attorney Saima S. Mohsin. Joining in the announcement were Irene Lindow, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Departme  more

GLADSTONE, Michigan, May 11 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service unit - Hiawatha National Forest - issued the following news release: The US Forest Service is partnering with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and American Transmission Company (ATC) to transplant individual dwarf lake iris (Iris lacustris) and Houghton's goldenrod (Solidago houghtonii) plants from ATC property to suitable inland wetland habitats on National Forest System lands. In general, both spec  more

WASHINGTON, May 15 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on May 14, 2021: The president and owner of Oil Chem Inc. was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for violating the Clean Water Act stemming from illegal discharges of landfill leachate -- totaling more than 47 million gallons -- into the city of Flint sanitary sewer system over an eight and a half year period. Robert J. Massey, 70, of Brighton, Michigan, pleaded guilty on Jan. 14, to a criminal charge of  more

DETROIT, Michigan, May 8 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan issued the following news release: A Novi man was charged in a criminal complaint with aggravated identity theft, mail fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering in a scheme to defraud the State of Michigan's (SOM) Unemployment Insurance Agency (UIA), announced Acting United States Attorney Saima Mohsin. Mohsin was joined in the announcement by Irene Lindow, Special Agent-in-Charge, Chicago Region, U.  more

EAST LANSING, Michigan, May 13 -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service - Great Lakes Regional Field Office issued the following news release: Michigan wheat growers anticipate better yields in 2021 than they had last year, according to Marlo Johnson, Director of the USDA NASS, Great Lakes Regional Office. Michigan producers expect to harvest 520,000 acres, up 70,000 acres from last year. Wheat production in the State is expected to be 42.6 million bushel  more