By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Eric Passalacqua, 36, of Phelps, NY, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with production, receipt, distribution, and possession of child pornography. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 15 years in prison, a maximum of 30 years, a lifetime period of supervised release, and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: Boston - The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced today they have deployed the agency's Major Inspection Team to assist Boston Field Division Industry Operations Investigators in conducting compliance inspections of Federal Firearms Licensees using the "The Mill" in the 400 block of Great Road, Littleton, as their licensed business premises.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - Patrick Parker Walsh, 42, Williston, Florida, was sentenced today, after previously pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud and one count of money laundering in connection to COVID-19 pandemic relief. Walsh was sentenced to 66 months in federal prison. The sentence was announced by Jason R. Coody, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: Davenport, IA - Jacob John Preuschl, age 28, of North Liberty, was sentenced on Jan. 25, 2023, to 300 months in prison for production of child pornography and transfer of obscene material to minors. Preuschol was also ordered to pay a $10,000 special assessment under the Justice for Victims of Trafficking...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: A federal jury today found a Depew man guilty of sexually abusing a child younger than 12 years old and sexually propositioning and inappropriately touching two teenagers.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: ST. LOUIS - U.S. District Judge Matthew T. Schelp on Tuesday sentenced a man from St. Charles, Missouri, caught trying to bring 100 pounds of methamphetamine to the St. Louis area to 10 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: BROOKLYN, NY - Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, John DeMarr was sentenced by United States District Judge LaShann DeArcy Hall to 60 months in prison for his participation in a cryptocurrency and securities fraud scheme. The Court also ordered DeMarr to pay $3,513,305.41 in forfeiture. In July 2021, DeMarr pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit securities fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A New York man today admitted distribution and possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: OKLAHOMA CITY - Launched in April 2021, the Western District of Oklahoma Coronavirus Fraud Task Force is getting results. The Task Force combines the efforts of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to investigate and prosecute fraud related to the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on programs...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 1, 2023
News Release: SAN ANGELO, TX-The FBI Dallas Field Office and FBI San Angelo Resident Agency partnered with the San Angelo Police Department (SAPD) to serve as the host for federal civil rights training for regional law enforcement this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2023
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Allen DeCola, 65, of Perry, Ohio, pleaded guilty before Chief U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford to making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2023
News Release: Defendant Falsified Documents. WASHINGTON -Ted Blair Williams, Jr., 30, of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, was ordered to pay more than $46,000 in restitution and was sentenced to five years of probation for falsifying the accounting records of a Washington, D.C. property management company, in order to conceal...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2023
News Release: BEMIDJI, Minn. - Five members of the Red Lake Band of Chippewa Indians have been indicted for multiple child abuse charges including child torture and child neglect on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2023
News Release: A federal jury convicted two Florida doctors today for their roles in a scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting over $31 million in claims for expensive durable medical equipment (DME) that Medicare beneficiaries did not need and that were procured through the payment of kickbacks.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2023
News Release: Today, Ka Yeung Marvin Chan, a Canadian national, was sentenced to a term of 14 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his role in a conspiracy to smuggle reptiles from the United States to Asia.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2023
News Release: "Billy Ortega ran a drug delivery service that delivered fentanyl, killing three victims on a single day. Worse yet, Ortega was fully aware that a customer had previously overdosed from the deadly fentanyl Ortega laced into his product, yet continued sending the drugs to his victims. As a unanimous jury...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2023
News Release: Today, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Logan Square Aluminum Supply Inc., resolving alleged violations of the federal Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting regulations, known as the RRP rule, at renovation projects Logan Square and its contractors performed in Chicago and Chicago suburbs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2023
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - A Dumfries man was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for distribution of fentanyl resulting in death and serious bodily injury, and possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2023
News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, AnnMarie R. Highsmith, Executive Assistant Commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (“CBP") Office of Trade, and Francis Russo, Director of CBP Field Operations New York, announced today that the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 31, 2023
News Release: An Afton man pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court for filming himself sexually abusing a young child that he had handcuffed and gagged, announced US Attorney Clint Johnson.
