By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Thomas Cesiro, age 68, of Rutland, Vermont, was convicted yesterday of attempting to entice or coerce a minor, following a three-day jury trial. The announcement was made by United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Janeen DiGuiseppi, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that FREDY RENAN NAJERA MONTOYA was sentenced to 30 years in prison for conspiring to import cocaine into the United States and possessing machine guns and destructive devices during the course of that conspiracy. NAJERA previously pled guilty before U.S. District Judge Paul G. Gardephe, who sentenced Najera today.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: [TOPEKA, KAN.] - U.S. Attorney Duston Slinkard announced that the Department of Justice has awarded $168,085 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in U.S. Attorney’s Office - District of Kansas. Funding will support community efforts to address the epidemic of gun crime and serious violence...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Failed to provide interpreter to patient who is deaf.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Alnaldo Perez-Rodriguez, age 36, of Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, pleaded guilty on Oct. 13, 2022, before U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion, to possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking offense.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal grand jury in Chicago has charged former Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives MICHAEL J. MADIGAN with corruptly arranging for payments to be made to a political ally as part of an alleged conspiracy involving Illinois Bell Telephone Company, which does business as AT&T Illinois.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: LAREDO, Texas - Two Texas men have been sent to federal prison following their convictions of conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute 34.5 kilograms of liquid meth associated with the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN), announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Defendant Joined Confrontation on Lower West Terrace.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Seattle - U.S. Attorney Nick Brown announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded $268,192 to support the Project Safe Neighborhoods Program in the Western District of Washington. Funding will support community efforts to address the epidemic of gun crime and serious violence in the district.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore.-A federal jury in Portland found two longtime Hoover Criminal Gang members guilty today for conspiring to commit racketeering through various criminal acts spanning decades, including murder, robbery, and drug dealing.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: In Justice Department’s First Corporate Material Support for Terrorism Prosecution, Lafarge S.A. and its Syrian Subsidiary Admit Revenue-Sharing Agreement with ISIS and Agree to Pay $778 Million in Fines and Forfeiture.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: CLEVELAND - The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio announced today that the Department of Justice has awarded more than $20 million in grant funding in Fiscal Year 2022 to various entities, organizations and programs in the Northern District of Ohio to support law enforcement and...

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: ST. LOUIS - A Missouri state employee has been indicted on three federal felony charges and accused of using her position to send about $140,500 in unearned unemployment benefits to friends, relatives and others.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Luis Fernando Escalante, age 43, of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, was indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday on illegal reentry charges.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: MISSOULA - A Stevensville man admitted to drug trafficking, firearm and money laundering crimes after law enforcement seized thousands of fentanyl and methamphetamine pills from his vehicle in a Minnesota traffic stop and found pill-making equipment and materials on his Montana property, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: ROCK ISLAND, Ill. - A Kewanee, Illinois, man, Wesley K. Jacobson, 41, of the 300 block of South Cottage Street, was sentenced today to 143 months’ imprisonment for conspiracy to distribute at least 50 grams of actual methamphetamine and distribution of a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania resident pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to violating federal narcotics laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: Two Portland area men are facing federal charges today for running a local drug trafficking organization responsible for making and distributing hundreds of thousands of counterfeit Oxycodone pills containing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: HOUSTON - A 51-year-old man who advertised himself as the “Used Car King of New York" has admitted to conspiring to commit wire fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

By DOJ Newswire | Oct 19, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - A federal jury has convicted former City of Atlanta Commissioner of Watershed Management Jo Ann Macrina for accepting bribes from an Atlanta contractor in exchange for steering city business worth millions of dollars to the contractor’s company.