WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 5, 2025 NAVY Systems Planning and Analysis Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, is being awarded a $98,585,373 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00002) to a previously awarded and announced contract (N00030247002) for support services for Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missile Weapons Surety, Policy, and Compliance. Tasks to be performed include systems engineering and system integration, test/fl  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release: * * * Former executive of injured child benefit program sentenced to nine years in prison for stealing over $6.7M RICHMOND, Va. - A Providence Forge man was sentenced today to nine years in prison for embezzling funds from his former employer, the Virginia Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Program (Birth-Injury Program). According to court docu  more

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia issued the following news release: * * * Henrico man sentenced to nearly four years in prison for fraudulent check scheme RICHMOND, Va. - A Henrico man was sentenced today to three years and 10 months in prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud. According to court documents, from at least June 2018 through April 2020, Deonte Trent, 31, engaged in a scheme known as "card-cracking." Trent of  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on March 4, 2025: * * * West Virginia Ambulance Business Owner Sentenced for Tax Crimes A West Virginia man was sentenced yesterday to three years in prison for not paying the taxes withheld from employees' wages at an ambulance service he operated and obstructing the IRS' efforts to collect those taxes. According to court documents and evidence presented in court, from 2012 through part of 2017, Christop  more

CHARLESTON, West Virginia, March 5 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of West Virginia issued the following news release: * * * Ohio Woman Sentenced to Prison for Federal Drug Crime CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Emariel Kanay Tyler, 20, of Akron, Ohio, was sentenced today to one year and six months in prison, to be followed by one year of supervised release, for use of a communication facility to facilitate a drug trafficking offense. According to court documents and statemen  more

WASHINGTON, March 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice issued the following news release on March 5, 2025: * * * West Virginia Business Owner Pleads Guilty to Employment Tax Crimes A West Virginia man pleaded guilty today to one count of willful failure to pay over employment taxes on behalf of his business. According to court documents and statements made in court, Dean E. Dawson operated RPC Group LLC, a Hurricane, West Virginia, real estate appraisal business. Dawson was responsible for wi  more