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News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - U.S. Attorney Mark Totten today announced that Theron Darrell Perry II, 32, of Benton Harbor, was sentenced to a total of 138 months in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker also imposed a 3-year period of supervised release to follow Perry’s incarceration.


News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - An Upper Marlboro, Maryland woman was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for participating in a conspiracy to distribute over seven kilograms of fentanyl.


Ponte Vedra Beach Man Pleads Guilty To Tax Evasion And Agrees To Pay IRS More Than $1.9 Million In Restitution

News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Patrick Brian Hines has pleaded guilty to willful evasion of the payment of taxes. Hines faces a maximum penalty of 5 years in federal prison and has agreed to pay restitution to the IRS in the amount of $1,927,077.90.


News Release: United States Attorney Gregory J. Haanstad of the Eastern District of Wisconsin announced that on Oct. 27, 2022, Dr. Manuel Thomas (age: 49), a former pediatrician, had been sentenced by United States District Judge Lynn Adelman to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to unlawfully distribute controlled substances and maintaining a premises for the purpose of unlawfully distributing controlled substances.


News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RANDI LEWIS (a/k/a “Teddy," a/k/a “Teddy P."), age 34, from Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty on Nov. 2, 2022 before United States District Judge Lance M. Africk to Count 2 of the indictment pending against him, charging LEWIS with sex trafficking...


News Release: TYLER, Texas - A Mexican national was sentenced to federal prison for firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.


U.S. Attorney’s Office Announces Election Day Program to Protect Election Workers and Voting Rights

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today that the public can call the Office’s Election Day Hotline at 888-636-6596 to report voting rights concerns, threats against election officials, or any other activity that would interfere with the right to vote in the District of New Jersey. This number will be active Oct. 29, 2022, through Nov. 11, 2022, and will be staffed live on Election Day, Nov. 8, 2022.


News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Cedric L. Hudson, Jr., 36, of Syracuse, New York, is charged in a federal indictment filed today alleging he possessed a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and New York State Police Acting Superintendent Steven A. Nigrelli.


News Release: BANGOR, Maine: A Waterville man pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Bangor today to possessing fentanyl with intent to distribute, U.S. Attorney Darcie N. McElwee announced.


There were 52 notices published by the Justice Department in October, according to the Federal Register.


Convicted Felon Admits to Being an Armed Drug Dealer

News Release: PROVIDENCE - A Providence man convicted multiple times on Rhode Island state drug charges admitted to a federal court judge that he illegally possessed two loaded firearms and 16 grams of heroin seized during an FBI Project Safe Neighborhoods investigation, announced United States Attorney Zachary A. Cunha.


Alaska Businesswoman Indicted on Tax Evasion and Filing False Tax Returns

News Release: ANCHORAGE - An indictment was unsealed charging an Alaska businesswoman with tax evasion and filing false tax returns that underreported income from the business she owned.


News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ADAM ROGAS, the co-founder and former CEO, CFO, and member of the board of directors of a Las Vegas-based cyberfraud prevention company NS8, Inc. (“NS8"), was sentenced today in Manhattan federal court to...


New Orleans Woman Sentenced for Social Security Fraud Spanning More Than Three Decades

News Release: NEW ORLEANS - U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that, on Nov. 2, 2022, U.S. District Court Judge Lance M. Africk sentenced BETTY ARRINGTON, a/k/a “Betty Callie Arrington," a/k/a “Betty Francis C Miller," a/k/a “Betty Miller" (“ARRINGTON"), age 73, to three years’ probation, of which she must serve six months of home detention. ARRINGTON was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $164,270.90.


News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that the Honorable Mitchell S. Goldberg of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania entered a default judgment against Timothy Warren of Wichita, Kansas and his company, Titan Medical Compliance, LLC (“Titan"), in the amount of $15,270,066, for violations of the False Claims Act (“FCA").


New Jersey Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting Officers and Other Charges for Actions During January 6 Capitol Breach

News Release: WASHINGTON - A New Jersey man pleaded guilty today to assaulting law enforcement officers and other charges for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.


News Release: ABERDEEN - United States Attorney Alison J. Ramsdell announced that a McLaughlin, South Dakota, man was acquitted of Assault with a Dangerous Weapon, Assault Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury, and Threatening a Federal Law Enforcement Officer.


News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States District Judge Timothy J. Corrigan today sentenced Ali Akhenaten, formerly known as Darryl Oliver, to three months in federal prison for tax fraud. Akhenaten had been found guilty by a jury on April 14, 2022.


News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington today sentenced Ali Hussein Salamey (40, Dearborn, Michigan) to two years in federal prison for passport fraud and aggravated identity theft. Salamey had pleaded guilty on June 7, 2022.


News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, PA, has been sentenced to 45 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release on charges of violating federal drug and firearms laws, United States Attorney Cindy K Chung announced today.