By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that RALPH BERRY was sentenced today to life in prison for the June 2000 fatal shooting of innocent bystander Caprice Jones in the Bronx, New York. Jones was left paralyzed from the shooting and died from his...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: CONCORD -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 16, 2022
News Release: Earlier today, at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, a federal jury convicted Marlon Thompson on all four counts of an indictment charging him with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl, heroin and cocaine base, the distribution of fentanyl that caused the death of the victim Fredrick Koenig, 36, on...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Tacoma - A 48-year-old Longview, Washington, man was arrested this morning on a criminal complaint charging seven counts of making interstate threats, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Mark Leonetti has allegedly repeatedly called U.S. Senators and members of the House of Representatives and left voicemails threatening bodily harm. Leonetti will appear today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Elina Martinez, 64, of Miami, FL, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with possession with intent to distribute, and distribute, 400 grams or more of fentanyl. The charge carries a mandatory minimum penalty of 10 years in prison, and a maximum of life in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 48-year-old Aransas Pass resident has been ordered to federal prison for possessing a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Alamdar S. Hamdani.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: A Massachusetts man was sentenced yesterday to 33 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for a scheme to illegally export defense technical data to foreign nationals in Turkey in connection with the fraudulent manufacturing of parts and components used by the U.S. military, in violation of the Arms Export Control Act. The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) later determined that some of the parts were substandard and unsuitable for use by the military.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Company Self-Reported Violations of Contractual Provisions.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: FARGO - United States Attorney Mac Schneider announced that on December 9, 2022, following a three-day trial, a jury returned guilty verdicts against Sharmake Mohamed Abdullahi, age 31 of Fargo, ND, for Kidnapping and Attempted Witness Tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that KEVIN JONES, SR., 58, of Farmington, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Alvin W. Thompson in Hartford to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing crack cocaine. Judge Thompson also ordered Jones to serve 200 hours of community service while on supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 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 16, 2022
News Release: Publicly filed court documents, including a 16-count indictment unsealed today in Brooklyn, charge five Russian nationals - including a suspected Federal Security Service (FSB) officer - and two U.S. nationals with conspiracy and other charges related to a global procurement and money laundering scheme...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Texas doctor and his office manager, who was also his wife, have agreed to pay more than $422,789 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they received illegal kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Reece Christopher Depew (24, Jacksonville) has pleaded guilty to possessing images depicting young children being sexually abused. Depew faces a maximum penalty of 20 years’ imprisonment and a potential lifetime of supervised release. Depew was arrested on Jan. 17, 2020, and has been detained since that time.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: ASHLAND, Ky. - A Catlettsburg, Ky., man, Jonathan Lee Smithers, 41, was sentenced to life in federal prison on Monday, before U.S. District Judge David Bunning, following his conviction for kidnapping.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former owner of a T-Mobile retail store in Eagle Rock was sentenced today to 120 months in federal prison for his multimillion-dollar scheme in which he stole T-Mobile employee credentials and illegally accessed the company’s internal computer systems to illicitly “unlock" and “unblock" cellphones.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 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 16, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that AMARA CHERIF, a/k/a “Bamba Issiaka," a citizen of Guinea, was sentenced to 57 months for conspiring to traffic in millions of dollars in rhinoceros horns and elephant ivory, both endangered wildlife species...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: Seattle - A 23-year-old Seattle man, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to ten years in prison for attempted sex trafficking of a minor, announced U.S. Attorney Nick Brown. Issac Shorack was arrested at Sea-Tac Airport in February 2022 as he drove to the arrivals area to pick up a...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 16, 2022
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A resident of Clearfield, PA, has been sentenced in federal court to a total of 120 months in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
