By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.- The FBI, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, is issuing a national public safety alert regarding an explosion in incidents of children and teens being coerced into sending explicit images online and extorted for money-a crime known as financial sextortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that GENE MURRAY, age 49, was sentenced on Dec. 14, 2022 for failing to register as a sex offender under the federal Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) 18 U.S.C. § 2250(b).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - BioTelemetry, Inc. and its subsidiary CardioNet, LLC, both headquartered in Pennsylvania (collectively, “BioTelemetry"), have agreed to pay $44,875,000 to resolve allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by knowingly submitting claims to Medicare, TRICARE, the Veterans Health...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Larry Todd Wilcox, age 55, of Berwick, Pennsylvania, was indicted on December 8, 2022, by a federal grand jury on drug trafficking charges. The case was unsealed following Wilcox’s arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Seattle - A 44-year-old Seattle man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to ten years in prison for possession of images of child rape and abuse, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Jason Alan Legg was on probation for the rapes of two 13-year-olds when a Washington State Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two New Jersey men have been charged with possessing with intent to distribute approximately one kilogram of cocaine and approximately 100 grams of fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - THEODORE HOLMES, age 34, a resident of Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, pled guilty on Dec. 13, 2022, before U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ST. PAUL, Minn. - A Chinese national was sentenced to 60 months in prison for cyberstalking a female Minnesota college student, and a concurrent 54 months’ imprisonment sentence for stealing the victim’s identity as a part of his cyberstalking scheme, followed by three years of supervised release, announced United States Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WICHITA, KAN.- A federal jury convicted a Kansas man of defrauding federal and state agencies by a total of $355,550 in COVIID-19 business recovery funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Andrew Barthalomew Trujillo, 38, of Tucson, Arizona, was sentenced December 5, 2022, by United States District Judge John C. Hinderaker to 24 months in prison. Trujillo previously pleaded guilty to Assault by Strangulation.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal court today issued an order prohibiting Qualgen LLC, an Oklahoma company, Shaun P. Riney, Qualgen’s Chief Executive Officer, and Jasen Lavoie, Qualgen’s Director of Quality, from manufacturing and distributing drugs that are not in compliance with the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Diamond Bar man pleaded guilty today to a federal criminal charge for deliberately failing to pay more than $200,000 for one three-month period’s payroll taxes that were owed by a San Gabriel Valley employment staffing company.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Jamon L. Woodson, 39, of Dunbar, pleaded guilty today to being a felon in possession of ammunition in connection with a shooting outside a Charleston business.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Five men were charged in an indictment and a New Jersey woman pleaded guilty in connection with a transnational technical support scam that targeted more than 20,000 victims, many of whom were elderly, in the United States and Canada, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Defendant Accused of Stealing from Labor Union while Serving as its Chairman.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Justice Department announced the launch of the Law Enforcement Language Access Initiative, a nationwide effort to assist law enforcement agencies in meeting their obligations to provide meaningful language assistance to limited English proficient (LEP) individuals. The Initiative will build on the department’s longstanding work to ensure that law enforcement agencies are complying with their language access obligations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: A California man was sentenced yesterday to 42 months in federal prison for his role in accessing, monitoring and conveying confidential and sensitive information that could be used to identify and locate Twitter users of interest to the Saudi Royal Family.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Memphis, TN - Antwon Brown, 30, has been sentenced to 138 months in federal prison for being a convicted felon in possession of firearms, possession of marijuana and methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, and possession of firearms in furtherance of drug trafficking. United States Attorney Kevin Ritz announced the sentence today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA - United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today that Dion Williams has been sentenced in federal court to 20 years (240 months) on his conviction of violating the federal narcotics and firearms laws and for assaulting a federal agent with a dangerous weapon, and to an additional five years (60 month) for violating the terms of his supervised release for a previous drug crime conviction.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania, in partnership with Homeland Security Investigations - Philadelphia (HSI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation - Pittsburgh (FBI), and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), is issuing a public safety alert regarding an alarming increase in the online exploitation of children and teens.
