By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Michael Alan Jones, 24, of Charlotte, North Carolina, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge David G. Larimer to being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition, which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Defendant Arrested by FBI and Brought to US for Court Appearance.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced that the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama has approved a consent decree resolving the department’s Fair Housing Act lawsuit alleging race discrimination by the Housing Authority of Ashland, Alabama. The consent decree also resolves the department’s ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Lorenzo Joshua Johnson, Jr., 41, of Gainesville, Florida, was sentenced to 27.25 years in federal prison after he was convicted at trial of drug trafficking and possessing a firearm as a convicted felon on April 8, 2022. The sentence was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A St. Paul man has been sentenced to 240 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for distribution of a drug analogue, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl, and illegally possessing firearms as a felon, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A Portland man was sentenced to federal prison today for fraudulently applying for and receiving Covid relief program funds for a fictitious business entity just five months after finishing a 70-month state prison sentence for armed robbery.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: A criminal complaint was unsealed yesterday in federal court in Brooklyn charging Mohammad David Hashimi, 35, of Potomac Falls, Virginia; Abdullah At Taqi, 23, of East Elmhurst, Queens, New York; Khalilullah Yousuf, 34, of Ontario, Canada; and Seema Rahman, 25, of Edison, New Jersey, with conspiring ...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that XAVIER CRUZ, 28, of Bristol, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Janet B. Atterton in New Haven to 60 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for unlawful possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Danske Bank A/S (Danske Bank), a global financial institution headquartered in Denmark, pleaded guilty today and agreed to forfeit $2 billion to resolve the United States’ investigation into Danske Bank’s fraud on U.S. banks.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Timothy M. O’Shea, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Steven Rosa, 29, Madison, Wisconsin was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to 2 years of probation for theft of mail matter by a postal employee. Judge Conley also imposed a $2,000 fine as part of Rosa’s sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced today that Audera Lee was sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison. Lee, 38, of Farmington, New Mexico, and an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, pleaded guilty on Oct. 15, 2021, to assault with a dangerous weapon.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Cumberland County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for distributing and possessing images of child sexual abuse, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that Lithuanian national STANISLAV TUNKEVIC pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with a scheme to launder fraud proceeds derived from an online vehicle sale scam that generated at least $5.3 million from dozens of defrauded consumers. TUNKEVIC pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 27-year-old Brownsville man has been ordered to prison for attempting to transport cocaine through a Border Patrol checkpoint, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man who has prior felony convictions was sentenced on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Ann R. Traum to 57 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for unlawful possession of six firearms. The firearms included a machine gun, a short-barreled rifle, and unserialized privately made firearms (PMF), sometimes referred to as “ghost guns."
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - 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 16, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that CYNTHIA BOWLEY, age 68, of Meraux, pled guilty today to aiding and assisting in the filing of false tax returns, a violation of Title 26, United States Code, Section 7206(2).
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - Daniel Scott Crow, a 38-year-old cruise ship employee from Stuart, Fla., has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for enticing an underage girl he met on the ship into performing sexual acts with him and with producing child pornography by recording their sexual interactions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: A Southern California woman pleaded guilty yesterday to her involvement in an investment fraud scheme that caused more than $2.6 million in losses to investors.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A former resident of Titusville, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court to 120 months in jail on her conviction of violating federal drug laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
