NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 23 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John H. Durham, issued the following news release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that VICKI MILLER, 56, of Colchester, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Kari A. Dooley in Bridgeport to a fraud offense stemming from an embezzlement scheme. According to court documents and statements in court today, from approximately June 2017 until August 2018,  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 19 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John H. Durham, issued the following news release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Jason J. Molina, Acting Special Agent in Charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Boston, and Christopher W. Fonda, Supervisory Immigration Officer for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Office of Fraud Detection and National Security, announced that JODIAN STEPHENSON, a  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 20 -- The U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut, John H. Durham, issued the following news release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Administrator Carmen Rottenberg, U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service, announced that MEMET BEQIRI, also known as Matt Beqiri, 32, of Tolland, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to a charge related to his me  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Aug. 22 -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the appointment of Dennis Deziel of Maryland to become regional administrator for Region 1. Mr. Deziel will oversee environmental protection efforts in the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut and in 10 Tribal Nations. Dennis Deziel has spent much of his  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 -- The U.S. Air Force Auxiliary Civil Air Patrol issued the following news: By James A. Ridley II The partnership between Civil Air Patrol and the National Football League Alumni Association, announced this summer, kicked off Sunday with former linebacker Niko Koutouvides' visit to the Connecticut Wing Cadet Encampment at Camp Nett in Niantic. Koutouvides spoke to the cadets about his experiences as a nine-year veteran of the NFL and what it took to make it to the professi  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release: National Transportation Safety Board Member Jennifer Homendy called on U.S. railroads Tuesday to fully implement Positive Train Control (PTC). At a press event in New Haven, Connecticut, with Senator Richard Blumenthal and rail advocates, Homendy pushed for railroads to fully implement PTC, a safety system designed to prevent train-to-train collisions, overspeed derailments, switches left in the   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 -- The National Transportation Safety Board issued the following news release: National Transportation Safety Board Member Jennifer Homendy will join Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal and rail safety advocates at a press conference scheduled for Tuesday, calling for the full implementation of Positive Train Control. The event coincides with the 50th anniversary of a train collision in Darien, Connecticut, that killed four people and injured 43 others. Following its inv  more

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Aug. 20 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued the following news release: * * * - The Bridgeport resident pleaded guilty to arranging numerous fraudulent marriages so noncitizens could obtain Green Cards. * * * John H. Durham, United States attorney for the District of Connecticut; the acting special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) in Boston; and a supervisory immigration officer for U.  more