By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2022
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Virginia Beach man was sentenced today to 4 years in prison for possessing a firearm as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that on Nov. 18, 2022 after a four (4) day trial before United States District Judge Eldon E. Fallon, GEORGE BENNETT, aka “G," 39, from the greater New Orleans area, was convicted of three counts of drug trafficking charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2022
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Somerset County, New Jersey, man admitted fraudulently obtaining over $850,000 in federal Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loans U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger, announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2022
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal jury has convicted Michael Rech, 49, of North Chili, NY, of 37 counts of bank fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering. Each charge carries a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a fine of $500,000.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2022
News Release: DES MOINES, IOWA - Michael Allen James, age 39, of Des Moines, was sentenced to 240 months in prison for distributing a controlled substance which resulted in death on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. On August 5, 2022, Gregory Michael Williams, age 38, was sentenced to 168 months in prison for distributing a controlled substance which resulted in death. Both men were sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge Stephanie Rose after pleading guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 23, 2022
News Release: NASHVILLE - A federal jury yesterday convicted a Clarksville, Tennessee man of filing false tax returns that omitted income he earned from his business, announced U.S. Attorney Mark H. Wildasin for the Middle District of Tennessee and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that STEPHFAN SANDERSON, also known as “Birdy" and “Beans, 24, of Covington, Georgia, pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to a firearms trafficking offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Coenraad Cromhoudt, 48, of Cayuga, Indiana, was sentenced to 151 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to distribution and receipt of child sexual abuse material.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A Bristol, Pennsylvania, man was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 36 months in prison for multiple counts of mail fraud and mail fraud conspiracy. He was also ordered to pay more than $1.1 million in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Jason Hatcher, 40, of New York, NY, was sentenced today to nearly three years in federal prison for his participation in a conspiracy that defrauded more than a dozen Rhode Island seniors who unknowingly fell victim to a so-called “grandparent scam," announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: Colorado Springs - The Denver FBI Field Office, the ATF Denver Field Division, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, National Security Division, and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado are aware of the situation regarding the shooting in Colorado Springs at Club Q, and we will review all available facts of the incident to determine what federal response is warranted. The FBI is providing assistance to the Colorado Springs Police Department.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: Scranton, PA - Today, United States Marshal Martin J. Pane announced the arrest of Sekete Lerotholi, a 44-year old Brooklyn man with no fixed address.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas- The owner of Jake’s Fireworks has been sentenced to federal prison for drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Coventry woman today admitted to a federal judge that she fraudulently applied for and received more than $17,000 in unemployment benefits provided for by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act and the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha and Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Union County man who previously served as a staff member in the New Jersey Senate today admitted his role in a conspiracy to falsely inflate the invoices that a political consultant submitted to various campaigns, political action committees, and IRS 501(c)(4) organizations, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: A man who used a false identification document and a false social security number was sentenced today to more than two months in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Bradley D. Knapp, 43, of Jamestown, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, heroin, fentanyl, and methamphetamine before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. - On November 7, 2022, Keenan Sherman Johnson, 26, of McNary, Arizona, was sentenced by United States District Judge Steven P. Logan to 180 months in prison, followed by lifetime supervised release. Johnson, an enrolled member of the White Mountain Apache Tribe, previously pleaded guilty to Abusive Sexual Contact of a Child.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: Concord, NH - Late this afternoon, “Fugitive of the Week", Amanda Lee Tappan, 31 years-of-age, surrendered at the U.S. District Court in Concord, NH. Tappan had been wanted on an outstanding federal arrest warrant issued on Sept. 24, 2019 for bail violations and failing to appear on an original charge of sales of the synthetic narcotic - Fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 22, 2022
News Release: MIAMI - A federal magistrate judge has unsealed an indictment charging Miami resident Julio Arsenio Rodriguez, 61, with running a money laundering operation involving millions of Medicare and Medicaid health care fraud proceeds.
