By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The U.S. Attorney’s Office has reached a comprehensive settlement with New Jersey Transit Corporation (NJ Transit) to resolve allegations that it violated the civil rights of people with disabilities by failing to operate a paratransit service that complied with Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Patrick Joseph McAloon (67, St. Augustine) to 7 years and 2 months in federal prison for distributing videos and images of children being sexually abused. The court also ordered McAloon serve a 10-year term of supervised release and pay $15,000 to victims of his offenses. McAloon had pleaded guilty on July 28, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: RENO - A Reno man was returned to the United States from Mexico where he was arrested on a federal warrant for drug trafficking violations. On Dec. 13, 2022, the defendant made his initial appearance in the Southern District of California and was ordered detained.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A local tax preparer has been ordered to federal prison following her conviction of preparing false and fraudulent tax returns on behalf of taxpayers, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: DEL RIO, Texas - A federal grand jury in Del Rio returned an indictment last week charging a Mexican national with smuggling goods from the United States and possessing a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Jonathan Richard Chapman, 42, of St. Albans, pleaded guilty today to attempted distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that John Wiedenhofer, Jr., 49, of Fredonia, NY, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra, Jr. to theft of mail by a postal employee, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of $250,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, Ketty Larco-Ward, Inspector in Charge of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, Boston Division, and Waterbury Police Chief Fernando C. Spagnolo today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging CHRISTOPHER JUSINO-RODRIGUEZ, 30, and CHADDIEL FERRER, 28, both of Waterbury, with cocaine trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WICHTA, KAN. - A federal grand jury in Wichita returned an indictment charging a Kansas man with crimes related to drug trafficking and firearms.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Matthew Capsel, 28, of Ottawa, Illinois, was sentenced to 18 months in prison today for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Hector Javier Torres Tapia, age 32, a Mexican citizen, formerly of Council Bluffs, was sentenced on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, to 18 months in prison following his plea of guilty to illegally reentering the country.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Javier Perez, 44, of Brookhaven, PA, was convicted at trial of possessing child pornography arising from the recovery of videos of child pornography from his personal computer.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced DWAYNE THOMPSON, 37, of West Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 156 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for heroin trafficking offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A Chanute, Kansas, man serving with the Army National Guard was sentenced in federal court today for sexually exploiting an 11-year-old southwest Missouri victim to produce child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld James Wells’ murder convictions which were handed down by a trial jury in October 2019 for the April 2012 murders of two U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) employees, Electrician’s Mate First Class James Hopkins and retired Chief Boatswain’s Mate Richard Belisle at a United States Coast Guard base on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Charles Calvin Akins, 52, of Many, Louisiana, has been sentenced by United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote to 15 months in prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - Ocenture LLC, a privately held company headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, and its subsidiary, Carelumina LLC (collectively, “Ocenture"), have agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations that they caused the submission of false claims to Medicare by paying and receiving kickbacks in connection with genetic testing samples.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that KARL SEBASTIAN GREENWOOD, who co-founded OneCoin with RUJA IGNATOVA, a/k/a “the Cryptoqueen," pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to wire fraud and money laundering charges in connection with...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON -A 49-year-old former special agent with Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) has been sent to prison following her conviction of obstructing justice, making false statements and accepting money and gifts for official acts, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 27, 2022
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Quinn Matthew Sorensen, age 23, of Missouri Valley, was sentenced on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, to 168 months in prison following his plea of guilty to Transportation of a Minor and Coercion and Enticement of a Minor. Sorenson will be required to register as a sex offender. He was ordered to 12 years of supervised release following his release from prison.
