By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department released the following statement from Attorney General Merrick B. Garland
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Defendants Had Ties to Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: CONCORD, N.H., - Philip Wetmore, 32, of Nashua, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking and possessing firearms in furtherance of his drug trafficking, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - William Lawrence Bryant, 32, of Fayetteville, pleaded guilty today to sexual exploitation of a minor and distribution of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I., - A Providence man charged in federal court with trafficking cocaine and fentanyl pleaded guilty today to federal drug distribution charges, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: A New York woman was arrested today for allegedly offering and paying illegal health care kickbacks and money laundering.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: HARTFORD, Conn. - Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that a federal grand jury in Hartford has returned an indictment charging the following five individuals with fentanyl trafficking offenses...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: A federal jury in Dallas convicted a Texas man today for receiving and possessing images of child sexual abuse.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: CONCORD. N.H., - Jabreel A. Amir, 41, of Waterbury, Connecticut, pleaded guilty in federal court to drug trafficking charges, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the convictions today in Manhattan federal court of GEORGE CONSTANTINE, a New York lawyer, and ANDREW DOWD, a New York orthopedic surgeon, for their participation in a massive trip-and-fall fraud scheme between...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 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 26, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that it has secured a settlement agreement with Walter J. Willoughby Jr., M.D., Ltd. (Willoughby Ltd.), a medical practice located in Las Vegas, Nevada. The settlement resolves the department’s determination that Willoughby Ltd. violated the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) by terminating a longstanding employee based on her Mexican-American national origin.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 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 26, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE, R.I., - Michael Wilkerson, 38, of Woonsocket, one of eighteen individuals arrested in October 2020 as the result of a wide-ranging FBI Safe Streets Task Force Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation into the trafficking of drugs and firearms in four Rhode Island cities pleaded guilty today to federal cocaine trafficking charges, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced today it has secured a settlement agreement with the Okaloosa County School District in Florida to resolve its investigation into allegations of physical and verbal abuse and discriminatory use of seclusion and restraint on students with disabilities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: 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 26, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging six Baltimore men for conspiring to participate in a violent racketeering enterprise known as the Black Guerilla Family (BGF) gang. The indictment, which was returned on Dec. 15, 2022 and unsealed today, charges the following defendants.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A known drug dealer from Umatilla County, Oregon was sentenced to federal prison today after he was convicted at trial on multiple felony drug and firearm charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Michael Kornaker, 52, of North Tonawanda, NY, who was convicted of wire fraud and violation of supervised release, was sentenced to serve 28 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 26, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A North Providence woman convicted of defrauding multiple publicly-funded programs was sentenced on Tuesday to eighteen months in federal prison for making false statements when applying for a Federal Housing Administration (FHA)-backed mortgage, a Small Business Association (SBA) loan, and for fraudulently applying for government-funded COVID unemployment benefits, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
