By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: CLEVELAND - Jason S. Huffman, 50, of Youngstown, Ohio, was sentenced on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, to more than 27 years in prison, or 328 months, and was ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution by U.S. District Judge Christopher Boyko. The sentence was pronounced after Huffman pleaded guilty to a five-count...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - The Justice Department announced an agreement today with a former Bergen County, New Jersey, man to resolve a federal lawsuit for his alleged violations of the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act. The FACE Act protects the right to access and provide reproductive health services, including abortion.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 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 4, 2022
News Release: A man who possessed a firearm as a felon was sentenced today to almost two years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: A federal jury convicted three men for conspiring to participate in La Mara Salvatrucha, a transnational criminal enterprise, commonly known as MS-13, through a pattern of racketeering activity, including murder, extortion, drug trafficking, money laundering, and witness tampering.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: GREAT FALLS - A Browning man today admitted to stealing culturally significant artifacts, including a grizzly bear necklace, moccasins and golden eagle feathers, from the Museum of the Plains Indian on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Samuel Manriquez, 37, of Cross Lanes, pleaded guilty today to possession with intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Philadelphia man was sentenced today to 36 months of probation for his role in a GoFundMe scam that gained nationwide attention, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal judge on Monday sentenced an Alabama man for devising a scheme to defraud Jefferson County’s retirement plan, announced U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona and FBI Acting Special Agent in Charge Felix A. Rivera-Esparra.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced that so far this year, the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania has charged no less than a dozen cases involving Social Security fraud, either by Information or Indictment, with nine of those defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced today that Elijah Cudei Etsitty was arraigned on an indictment charging him with assault resulting in serious bodily...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: Arrested in mid-July with two firearms, heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Dr. Omar Guesmia, of Phoenix, New York will pay $60,000 to resolve allegations that he, and his dentistry practice, “Gentle Dental Care," violated the Controlled Substances Act by enabling an office staff member to use an electronic prescription system to obtain oxycodone for their own use.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: RIVERSIDE, California - The former mayor pro tem of Adelanto was sentenced today to 60 months in federal prison for accepting a $10,000 cash bribe and hiring a man to burn down his restaurant so he could fraudulently collect hundreds of thousands of dollars in insurance proceeds.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: ALBANY, NEW YORK - Isaiah Lafoe, age 24, of Lancaster, New Hampshire, appeared in Albany federal court today on charges that he received child pornography, 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 4, 2022
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Richard Lant, 77, of Las Vegas, Nevada, pleaded guilty today to a conspiracy to export to an embargoed country, Iran, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. On Sept. 19, 2022, Dariush Niknia, 59, of Elk Grove, entered a guilty plea to the same charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: Dover Chemical Corporation has agreed to implement and fund natural resource restoration and protection projects to resolve alleged state and federal natural resource damages (NRD) associated with the Dover Chemical Corporation Superfund Site and the surrounding NRD assessment area in Dover, Ohio. The ...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: BOSTON - Southeast Florida Hematology and Oncology Group (SEFHOG), a now-defunct specialty medical practice in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., has agreed to pay $130,000 to resolve allegations that it violated the False Claims Act by receiving “upfront discounts" from its specialty pharmaceutical distributor...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - John Perry, 64, of Bakersfield, was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for receiving child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 4, 2022
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced that Derek Lorin Blackhorse was arraigned on Sept. 29 on a three-count indictment charging him with attempted aggravated...
