By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Dena J. King joins the Justice Department in announcing today the results of the Department’s 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
There is one release scheduled to be published on Oct. 6.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: WASHINGTON - Three people - two from North Carolina and one from New York - pleaded guilty today to felony charges for their actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Their 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.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - The Justice Department announced today 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...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: An Amarillo man who allegedly threatened law enforcement, government officials, and a number of racial and ethnic groups on social media has been charged in federal court, announced U.S Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Chad E. Meacham.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Chi Meng Yang, 36, of Montague, and Gaosheng Laitinen, 41, of St. Paul, Minnesota, were sentenced today for their respective roles in a bribery scheme aimed at protecting illicit marijuana grows in Siskiyou County from law enforcement, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Dena J. King announced today that Joshua Andrew Phillips, 33, of Burnsville, N.C., was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for producing child pornography. Upon his release from prison, Phillips will be subject to a lifetime of supervised release and must register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Felix Becerra-Aguilera, 40, of Stockton, California, was sentenced to 45 months years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that Yale University, on behalf of Yale Medicine and the Yale Fertility Center, has entered into a civil settlement agreement with the federal government in which it will pay a total of $308,250 to resolve allegations that it violated civil provisions of the Controlled Substances Act.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: CONCORD - Kyle Goff, 28, a resident of Pembroke New Hampshire, pleaded guilty in federal court to possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl and possession of a firearm silencer that was unregistered and did not contain a serial number, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A medical sales representative was sentenced today to 168 months in prison for defrauding federal, state, and private health insurance plans out of more than $4.6 million, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: CINCINNATI - United States Attorney Kenneth L. Parker announced today the creation of an environmental justice initiative in the Southern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Sept. 29, 2022, Angel Antonio Anchondo, age 20, an inmate at the Low Security Correctional Institution, Allenwood (LSCI Allenwood), in White Deer, Pennsylvania, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by United States Magistrate Judge William I. Arbuckle for possessing a cellphone in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Marchese, age 30, of Swoyersville, Luzerne County, was sentenced on Oct. 3, 2022, by U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, to five years’ imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy to distribute more than fifty grams of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - Brian James Bell, age 22 of Mount Vernon, Washington, was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022, to 66 months in prison following his plea to a charge of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: ATLANTA - Kevin M. Gregory has pleaded guilty to conspiring with ex-wife and former Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency counselor Karen C. Lyke to forge educational records and to create fake students with non-existent disabilities and illnesses, as part of their sophisticated, multi-year scheme to steal more than $1.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: The Justice Department announced today that as part of its continuing efforts to protect older adults and to bring perpetrators of fraud schemes to justice, it is expanding its Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, adding 14 additional U.S. Attorney’s Offices. Since 2019, current Strike Force members ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: 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 5, 2022
News Release: A Vinita man was sentenced in federal court for attempting to sexually entice an individual he believed to be a 14-year-old boy, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 5, 2022
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron announced today that as part of the Office’s continuing efforts to protect older adults and to bring perpetrators of fraud schemes to justice, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office is joining the Justice Department’s Transnational Elder Fraud Strike Force, as one of 14 additional U.S. Attorney’s Offices.
