BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2024: A Mexican man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy. In March 2023, 20 kilograms of cocaine was seized during a traffic stop, along with a tracking device that had been installed in the vehicle by a Mexican drug cartel. Erasmo Lira-Mendez, 39, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 6 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on Sept. 5, 2024: A New York City man pleaded guilty today to conspiracies to engage in computer hacking, trafficking in stolen payment card numbers and money laundering. Vitalii Antonenko, 32, pleaded guilty before United States District Judge William G. Young to one count of conspiracy to gain unauthorized access to computer networks and to traffic in unauthor  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Sept. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts issued the following news release on Sept. 6, 2024: A Stoughton man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for his role in a wide-ranging fentanyl trafficking conspiracy. The defendant was on federal supervised release at the time that he committed the offenses, after being granted compassionate release in 2020. Angel Morales, 53, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Angel Kell  more

BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sept. 7 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland issued the following news release: Medical device manufacturer THD America, Inc., located in Natick, Massachusetts, and its corporate parent, THD SpA of Italy (collectively, THD), have agreed to pay $700,000 to resolve allegations that THD violated the False Claims Act by knowingly causing physicians to use incorrect codes to obtain inflated reimbursement from Medicare and State Medicaid programs for th  more

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, Sept. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Transportation's John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center issued the following news: The U.S. DOT Volpe Center's new building has been recognized for its high performance in resiliency and sustainability with a LEED Platinum certification, the highest mark of excellence for sustainability as awarded by the U.S. Green Building Council. Conceived as a vertical campus, the project brings the entirety of the U.S. DOT Volpe Cen  more