By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that ROBERT SHANNON, a/k/a “Tank," was sentenced to 260 months in prison today for his participation in a large-scale narcotics trafficking operation that sold kilogram quantities of fentanyl, heroin, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - 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 16, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that KEISHAN WILSON, age 38, of New Orleans, Louisiana pleaded guilty on December 8, 2022, before the Honorable Elon E. Fallon, U.S. District Judge, Eastern District of Louisiana, to stealing items from the mail she was entrusted to process for delivery as a postal employee. Sentencing is set for March 2, 2023.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: DETROIT - A violent gang member and three-time convicted felon from Jackson, Michigan was sentenced to 57 months in prison today for being a felon in possession of a firearm, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: A federal grand jury in Manhattan returned an indictment today charging Samuel Bankman-Fried, aka SBF, 30, of Stanford, California, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud, conspiracy to commit commodities fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and conspiracy to defraud the Federal Election Commission and commit campaign finance violations.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON- The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Mason Morey, age 26, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on a charge of attempted online enticement.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - PharmScript of KS, LLC, a long-term care pharmacy in Lenexa, Kansas, has agreed to pay $3 million to resolve allegations that it violated federal law by dispensing controlled substances to residents in nursing and long-term care facilities without valid prescriptions and that the company was wrongfully reimbursed by the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that defendant RICHARD JONES, of New Orleans, was sentenced on December 8, 2022 by U.S. District Court Chief Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown to 40 months imprisonment, 3 years supervised release, and a mandatory $100 special assessment fee.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - Four defendants involved in two separate counterfeiting cases were sentenced today, announced United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown. United States District Judge David C. Joseph sentenced the four defendants as follows.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ANCHORAGE - The Justice Department today announced the court-authorized seizure of 48 internet domains associated with some of the world’s leading DDoS-for-hire services, as well as criminal charges against six defendants who allegedly oversaw computer attack platforms commonly called “booter" services.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted producing multiple videos depicting the sexual assault of children, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ANCHORAGE - An Anchorage woman was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Joshua M. Kindred to 20 years in prison for kidnapping an 18-year-old victim.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: LONDON, Ky. - A Williamsburg, Ky., woman, Jennifer Lee West, 60, was sentenced Tuesday to 4 months in federal prison, by U.S. District Judge Robert Wier, for committing Social Security fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Quintae L. Stubbs, of Columbus, Ohio, has admitted to a firearms charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Fargo - United States Attorney Mac Schneider announced that Joel Alejandro Quinonez, age 34 of Puebla, Mexico, appeared before Chief Judge Peter D. Welte, U.S. District Court, Fargo, ND, and was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for the charges of Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Distribute...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department announced today it has secured a landmark agreement to resolve a race and national origin discrimination lawsuit against the City of Hesperia and the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department that alleged the defendants engaged in a pattern or practice of discrimination against Black and Latino individuals and communities in Hesperia through the adoption and enforcement of a so-called “crime-free" rental housing program.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Defendant Distributed Multiple Images of Child Pornography and Possessed Over 25,000 Images of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: GALVESTON, Texas - A 65-year-old has been taken into custody on violation of captain of the port order, making a false statement, obstruction of a proper compliance inspection and forgery of ships papers, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Merrick B. Garland, the United States Attorney General, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced today the unsealing...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man today admitted his role in a scheme to bribe mail carriers to steal postal arrow keys used to unlock mail receptacles and to use stolen items from the mail to fraudulently obtain funds from banks, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
