By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Based on the actions of its agents, including its billionaire Chinese real estate developer owner, a downtown Los Angeles-based company was found guilty today of paying more than $1 million in bribes - including luxury trip expenses, casino gambling chips and a sham loan - to then-Los Angeles City Councilman José Huizar to obtain city approval to build a 77-story skyscraper.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Newburgh, New York, man was sentenced today to 37 months in prison for possessing a stolen and loaded firearm that he tried to get through security at Newark Liberty International Airport, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Nov. 10, 2022, United States District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani sentenced Keith Parson, age 50, of Stroudsburg, PA, to 24 months’ imprisonment and a 3-year term of supervised release, for Possession with Intent to Distribute Heroin and Fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Robert Woody, of Morgantown, West Virginia, weas sentenced today to 136 months of incarceration for a drug charge, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A former landlord and associate of the New Bedford Chapter of the Massachusetts Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation (Latin Kings) was sentenced today for racketeering and drug offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Jeremy Crumbley, also known as “Memphis," 30, of Memphis, Tennessee, pleaded guilty today to distribution of fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Melanie Clodfelter, 41, of Summersville, pleaded guilty today to making a false statement in acquisition of a firearm. Clodfelter admitted to purchasing a semi-automatic firearm that was subsequently used to kill a Nicholas County deputy sheriff in June 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Jason Keith Arnold, 46, of Chandler, Arizona, was sentenced today to seven years and three months in prison for conspiring to distribute heroin and methamphetamine on the dark web, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Boston man was sentenced yesterday in federal court for gun and drug offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Palestinian national has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of attempted coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Craig Wiggin, 44, formerly of Rochester, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to one count of conspiracy to sell fentanyl, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Leith Sukkar, 22, of Merrimack, pleaded guilty in federal court to engaging in the business of dealing firearms without a license and making false statements during the acquisition of firearms, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, announced that Douglas Smith, 71, of Española, New Mexico, was sentenced on Nov. 10 to two years and three months in prison. On June 18, 2021, a federal jury convicted Smith of involuntary manslaughter in Indian Country.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: WAYCROSS, GA: A South Georgia man who participated in a widespread drug-trafficking conspiracy and two state prison guards who smuggled drugs behind bars are among the final defendants sentenced to federal prison as a major meth-distribution prosecution comes to a close.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE L. GERENA, 33, of New Haven, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in New Haven to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: Grand Junction - The United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announces a federal jury today found Michael Tracy McFadden, age 51, of Grand Junction, guilty of crossing state lines with intent to engage in a sexual act with a minor under the age of 12, and transportation of a minor with intent to engage in sexual activity.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: Des Moines, IA - On Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, Halston Ray Van Westen, age 22, of Story City, was sentenced to five years in prison following his plea to a charge of Possession of Child Pornography. Van Westen must also serve a ten-year term of supervised release after the prison term. There is no parole in the federal system.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - Two California men today received prison sentences of up to 11 years for participating in an extensive multimillion-dollar conspiracy - much of it committed by Nigerian nationals - that perpetrated a wide variety of frauds, including business email compromise (BEC) fraud, romance scams, elder fraud and fraud using malware.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: A Michigan man was charged, in an indictment unsealed today in the Eastern District of Michigan, with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, aka ISIS, a designated foreign terrorist organization, and for being a felon in possession of a destructive device.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2022
News Release: PIERRE - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for First Degree Murder, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon to a Child, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury to a Child, and Child Abuse.
