By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Passaic County, New Jersey, attorney was arrested today for fraudulent acts he committed in connection with COVID-19 relief funds, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: OAKLAND - Alejandro Valentino Urias was sentenced today to 96 months in prison after admitting he supplied a fentanyl-laced counterfeit M30 pill that caused the overdose death of a 14-year-old girl, announced U.S. Attorney Stephanie M. Hinds and Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Acting Special Agent in Charge Bob P. Beris. The sentence was handed down by the Hon. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, United States District Judge.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A Minneapolis man has been charged in a federal indictment for illegal possession of a firearm, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: Defendant Illegally Obstructed the Electoral College Certification.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ROVIER CARRINGTON pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court before U.S. District Judge Valerie E. Caproni to submitting false declarations to the court in connection with a $50 million civil lawsuit.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - KENDALE ADAMS, age 41, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, pled guilty on February 7, 2023 to one count of possession with intent to distribute a quantity of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of heroin and methamphetamine in violation of Title 21, United...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Today, Abel Nazario-Quiñones, former Puerto Rico senator and former mayor of the municipality of Yauco, Puerto Rico, was sentenced by United States District Court Senior Judge Francisco A. Besosa to serve 18 months in prison, announced United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow. The FBI conducted the investigation with the collaboration of the Puerto Rico Comptroller’s Office, and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Office of Inspector General (OIG).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn.- On Feb. 10, 2023, Robert Z. Whipple, III, 50, currently of Crossville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 70 months in prison by the Honorable Katherine A. Crytzer, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee at Knoxville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: FAYETTEVILLE - A Fayetteville man was sentenced today to 123 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Heroin and Possession of a Firearm in Furtherance of a Drug Trafficking Offense. The Honorable Judge Timothy L. Brooks presided over the sentencing hearing in the United States District Court in Fayetteville.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: Defendant Knocked One Officer to Ground, Used Baton to Strike Others.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIE DENNIS was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jed S. Rakoff to two years in prison for cyberstalking three victims, all his former colleagues at a global law firm (the “Law Firm"). DENNIS was convicted in October 2022 following a one-week trial before Judge Rakoff.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Kambiz Attar Kashani, a dual citizen of the United States and Iran, was sentenced by United States District Judge Eric R. Komitee to 30 months’ imprisonment for conspiring to illegally export U.S. goods, technology, and services to end users in Iran, including...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: NORFOLK, Va. - A Norfolk man was sentenced today to 5 years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: Three men pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court to committing sex crimes against children, announced U.S. Attorney Clint Johnson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: Madison, WI - Today, members of the U.S. Marshals Service’s Great Lakes Regional Fugitive Task Force (GLRFTF) captured a fugitive on the 300 block of Rethke Avenue on Madison’s east side.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: The U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) announced today the disbursement of over $115 million to 38,889 victims in connection with fraud schemes processed by MoneyGram International Inc. (MoneyGram). The victims, many of whom are elderly, will recover the full amount of their losses.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - The former mayor of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, Javier García-Pérez, pleaded guilty today to one count of conspiracy for his involvement in a bribery scheme in which he received cash payments in exchange for the awarding of municipal contracts and the payment of invoices related on those contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: TUCSON, Ariz. - Brian Jesus Hernandez, 24, of Tucson, Arizona, was arrested and charged Monday, with Dealing Firearms Without a License and Possessing Firearms Not Identified by a Serial Number.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Daryl Green, 53, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, 500 grams or more of cocaine, was sentenced to serve 87 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 11, 2023
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that a federal grand jury returned a 12-count indictment charging Joshua Parra, 31, formerly of Buffalo, NY, now living in Melbourne, Florida, with bank fraud and money laundering conspiracy. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
