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News Tipoffs - Connecticut Editors Newsletter for Wednesday July 17, 2024 ( 7 items )  

Conn. U.S. Attorney: Convicted Newington Landscape Contractor Fined $1.75 Million for Tax Evasion
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on July 16, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that ANTHONY NIRO, 61, of Newington, was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to three years of probation and ordered to pay a fine of $1.75 million for tax evasion. Judge Williams noted Niro's medical condition and fa  more

Conn. U.S. Attorney: Middletown Man Admits Trafficking Meth
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, July 17 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut issued the following news release on July 16, 2024: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Stephen Belleau, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that JASON FABEL, 46, of Middletown, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to possession with intent t  more

Contracts for July 15, 2024
WASHINGTON, July 16 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: U.S. TRANSPORTATION COMMAND Alaska Marine Lines Inc., Seattle, Washington (HTC71124DW001); American President Lines LLC, Arlington, Virginia (HTC71124DW002); American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier LLC, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida (HTC71124DW003); Crowley Government Services Inc., Jacksonville, Florida (HTC71124DW004); Farrell Lines Inc., Norfolk, Virginia (HTC71124DW005); Federated Maritime LLC, Boca Raton, Flor  more

Contracts for July 16, 2024
WASHINGTON, July 16 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news release: NAVY Laurel Technologies Partnership, doing business as DRS Laurel Technologies, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, is awarded a maximum $417,221,175 fixed-price-incentive-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, and cost reimbursable, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for development, integration, and production of hardware solutions. This contract combines purchases for the Navy (85.6%); t  more

Middletown Man Admits Trafficking Meth
BOSTON, Massachusetts, July 16 -- The U.S. Department of Justice Drug Enforcement Administration's New England Division issued the following news release: MIDDLETOWN, Conn. Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Stephen Belleau, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that JASON FABEL, 46, of Middletown, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Omar A. Williams in Hartford to po  more

NUWC Division Newport engineer wins Society of Women Engineers Helen Martha Sternberg Award for 2024
WASHINGTON, July 16 -- The Naval Sea Systems Command issued the following news: Molly "Meagan" Haradon, a junior computer software engineer in the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport's Weapons Software and Computer Systems Branch in the Undersea Warfare Weapons, Vehicles and Defensive Systems Department, was named the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Helen Martha Sternberg Award winner for 2024. The annual award recognizes a female mathematician, computer scientist, or comput  more

R.I. U.S. Attorney: Co-Leader of Drug Trafficking Organization That Imported Over 100 Kilos of Cocaine Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 16 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Rhode Island issued the following news release: The co-leader of a years-long drug trafficking conspiracy that shipped over 100 kilograms of cocaine from Puerto Rico to Rhode Island has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha. As reflected in court documents, Efrain Colon-Garcia, 43, and his wife, Yaniris Colon-Senquiz, 47, formerly of Woonsocket, co-  more