BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 18 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: DALLAS, TX - A Dallas fentanyl trafficker who admitted to dealing more than 142,000 counterfeit pills was sentenced today to 20 years in federal prison. Terrill Antwan Ray, 48, pleaded guilty in April 2023 to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute a controlled substance and was sentenced Monday by Chief U.S. District Judge David Go  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, March 19 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release: A Stoughton man has pleaded guilty to managing a large-scale drug trafficking organization (DTO) that shipped dozens of parcels containing kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to various addresses throughout Eastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Patrick Joseph, 41, pleaded guilty on March 14, 2024 to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to dist  more

WASHINGTON, March 17 -- The Securities and Exchange Commission's Accounting and Auditing Enforcement issued the following order (No. 4493) on March 15, 2024: * * * On March 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island entered a final judgment against Evoqua Water Technologies Corp.'s former division-level finance director, Imran Parekh, in a case the Commission previously filed alleging improper accounting practices. Evoqua is based in Pennsylvania and has a major divisio  more

NEWTON, Massachusetts, March 19 -- The U.S. Air Force's Hanscom Air Force Base issued the following news: By Jessica Casserly, 66th Air Base Group Public Affairs Lauren Jones, Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development in Massachusetts, spoke about various workforce-related partnerships between the state and Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., during her New Horizons keynote address March 13. As a keynote speaker at the 2024 event, Jones provided insight into Massachusetts' workforce development  more