On May 17, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice announced the establishment of a COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force to ramp up enforcement efforts against COVID-19-related fraud.
The Treasury Department projects that there will be a $7 trillion tax gap over the next decade and is hoping to reduce that through increased funding for the Internal Revenue Service.
An inmate at a federal prison in Lee County pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to kill a fellow inmate in relation to an assault that occurred in 2020.
June 9, 2021
Christopher Lee Dubry, age 25, of La Plata
6/9/2021: U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Christopher Dubry, age 25, of La Plata, Maryland, to 10 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for possession of child pornography. Judge Hazel also ordered that, upon his release from prison, Dubry must continue to register as a sex offender in the places where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
The sentence was announced by Acting United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Jonathan F. Lenzner; Special Agent in Charge James R. Mancuso of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Baltimore; and Colonel Woodrow W. Jones III, Superintendent of the Maryland State Police.