By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Oct. 5, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - United States District Judge Mary Scriven has sentenced Antwan Brown (22, Tampa) to 18 months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Brown had pleaded guilty on July 12, 2022. Brown was also ordered to forfeit a Taurus 9mm pistol and eighteen rounds of 9 mm ammunition used in the commission of the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - An Anoka man has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint for illegally possessing a machine gun and possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced that GM Financial has agreed to pay over $3.5 million to resolve allegations that it violated the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA) by illegally repossessing 71 servicemembers’ vehicles and by improperly denying or mishandling over 1,000 vehicle lease termination requests.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: Brooklyn Man Cut a Brake Line of NYPD Vehicle and Stole Thousands of Dollars Earmarked for Small Businesses Suffering Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that John Nathan Hemingway (52, Lake City) has pleaded guilty to possession with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, and cocaine base (also known as “crack" cocaine) and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Hemingway faces a minimum mandatory sentence of five years, and up to life, in federal prison. He had been indicted on March 9, 2022.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - Atlantic County man today admitted his role in a heroin distribution scheme, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Darnell Sterling, 57, of Washington, D.C., has been found guilty by a jury of charges stemming from the murder of his girlfriend, whose body has never been recovered, announced U.S. Attorney Matthew M. Graves and Robert J. Contee III, Chief of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD).
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: Louisville, KY - A federal grand jury in Louisville returned a single-count indictment yesterday charging a local man with violating a federal law prohibiting false information and hoaxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former California lawyer has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for lying to his clients about winning cases for them and then deceiving them with bogus documents - some with the forged signatures of judges, the Justice Department announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that ALGENYS PAULINO, also known as “Chico" and “Lying Queen," 34, of the Bronx, New York, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Vanessa L. Bryant in Hartford to 87 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for supplying narcotics to members of a Waterbury-area drug trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: SIOUX FALLS - The Justice Department has announced the results of its efforts over the past year to protect older adults from fraud and exploitation. During the past year, the Department and its law enforcement partners tackled matters that ranged from mass-marketing scams that impacted thousands of...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: RALEIGH, N.C. - A Fayetteville woman was sentenced today to 54 months in prison for her role in a “card-cracking" scheme that caused a total loss of over $430,000 to several financial institutions. On June 8, 2022, Ericka Andrea Monique Johnson, 28, pled guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aggravated identity theft. In addition to her sentence, she will also be required to pay $62,118 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Washington man admitted to a drug trafficking crime today after law enforcement seized more than five pounds of methamphetamine along with other drugs from his vehicle near Great Falls last year, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - David Colon, age 41, of Troy, New York was sentenced yesterday to 46 months in prison for distributing fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Sean Morrissey, age 51, of Waterford, New York, pled guilty today to abusive sexual contact of a ward, announced 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 6, 2022
News Release: Tampa, FL - A Canadian man was sentenced to 20 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $21,500,000 today for his role in NetWalker ransomware attacks. The Court will order restitution at a later date.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - A Texas man has been arrested and charged with allegedly staging a hoax explosion at Northeastern University in Boston in September 2022 and providing law enforcement with materially false and misleading information about the incident.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The Justice Department announced on October 4, 2022 the results of its efforts over the past year to protect older adults from fraud and exploitation. During the past year, the Department and its law enforcement partners tackled matters that ranged from mass-marketing scams that impacted...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 6, 2022
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces today that Physicians Group Services, P.A. (“PGS") has agreed to pay the United States and the State of Florida $700,000 to resolve allegations that PGS violated the False Claims Act by submitting false or fraudulent claims to the Florida Medicaid Program, which is a state and federal partnership that provides access to health care coverage for low-income families and individuals in Florida.
