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Bully Hard Gang Member Charged with Murder of a Minor Victim in Poughkeepsie

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, William Grady, the District Attorney for Dutchess County, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the filing of a superseding...


News Release: GREENSBORO - A Jacksonville, Florida man was sentenced today in federal court in Greensboro for possessing an illegal machine gun, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Hairston of the Middle District of North Carolina.


News Release: A seven-count indictment was unsealed today in federal court in Brooklyn charging Andrii Derkach with conspiracy to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Acts (IEEPA), bank fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and four counts of money laundering in connection with the purchase...


News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 26 months in prison for evading more than $1 million in federal taxes, U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger announced.


News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Camden man is scheduled to appear in court today on multiple charges of sex trafficking minors, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.


Pikeville Medical Center to Pay $4.39 Million to Resolve Alleged Controlled Substance Act Violations That Allowed Drug Diversion

News Release: LEXINGTON, Ky. - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Kentucky announced that Pikeville Medical Center (“PMC") has agreed to pay the United States $4,394,600 in civil penalties, to resolve allegations that its violations of the Controlled Substances Act’s (“CSA") recordkeeping...


Rochester Man Going To Prison For Planning The Robbery By Gunpoint Of A Cell Phone Store

News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that James A. Houston a/k/a Hood, 36, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of Hobbs Act robbery and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, was sentenced to serve 84 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa.


South Florida Woman Sentenced To 3 Years For Her Role In A Health Care Fraud Conspiracy

News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington has sentenced Ruth Bianca Fernandez (39, Pompano Beach) to three years in federal prison for her role in a conspiracy to commit health care fraud and for making a false statement in a matter involving a federal health care benefit program.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - Joshua Peters was convicted of firearm and drug trafficking crimes at the conclusion of a jury trial, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


Two Brothers Sentenced To Prison For Access Device Fraud And Aggravated Identity Theft

News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Roy B. Dalton has sentenced two brothers, Andy Teruel Colina (25, Miami) and Adrian Teruel (31, Orlando), to federal prison terms. Andy Teruel Colina was sentenced to 5 years for aggravated identity theft and for producing, using, or trafficking in one or more counterfeit...


News Release: Louisville, KY - A federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned an indictment today, charging two local men with illegally possessing machine guns.


U.S. Attorney and Maine Attorney General Jointly Announce Cooperative Efforts to Ensure Access to Reproductive Services

News Release: PORTLAND, Maine: U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee joined Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey today to affirm their commitment to ensuring safe, unfettered access to reproductive health care services in Maine for all who seek it.


Columbus man admits to drug charge

News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyree A. Allen, of Columbus, Ohio, has admitted to a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.


News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and David Sundberg, Special Agent in Charge of the New Haven Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that TARA KEWALIS, 50, of Beacon Falls, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to embezzling from a Waterbury credit union where she was employed.


California Executive Compensation Consultant Sentenced to Prison for Committing Insider Trading

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that FRANK GLASSNER, a principal of an executive compensation consulting firm based in Novato, California (the “Consulting Firm"), was sentenced to one year and one day in prison by U.S. District Judge Lewis...


News Release: A seventh and final Verbena, Alabama, resident was sentenced yesterday for violating the Animal Welfare Act’s prohibition against animal fighting ventures in connection with an expansive cockfighting operation. This marks the end of a week of sentencings in which the court held four Alabama residents ...


News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - A Morgantown man is accused of stealing nearly a half a million dollars in a scheme involving the forgery of checks that belonged to a relative.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of conspiracy to receive and distribute material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, as well as distribution and possession of material depicting the sexual exploitation of a minor, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.


News Release: MONROE, La. - A former officer with the Monroe Police Department, Jared Preston Desadier, 44, was sentenced today to 78 months in prison, followed by 2 years of supervised release, for his role in the assault of an arrestee in Ouachita Parish and his efforts to cover up that abuse.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that Joseph Willard, 59, of Cole Camp, Missouri, was convicted at trial with 12 counts of child exploitation offenses arising from his abuse of seven minor children, ranging in age from eight to 17, while pretending to own an international modeling agency.