
By Press release submission | Mar 4, 2023
Recording artist ROBERT SYLVESTER KELLY, also known as “R. Kelly,” was sentenced earlier today by United States District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber to 20 years in federal prison, with one year to run consecutive to the 30-year sentence previously imposed in the Eastern District of New York.

By Press release submission | Mar 4, 2023
Sandra D. Smith has been arraigned on federal charges of wire fraud and theft of government funds. The indictment alleges that Smith stole more than $450,000 in Social Security Administration (SSA) retirement benefits and New York State Local and Retirement System (NYSLRS) benefits intended for M.S., who died in 2006 and was no longer eligible to receive those funds.

By Press release submission | Mar 4, 2023
Randy Edward Martin, 40, of Roseville, was sentenced today to eight years and one month in prison for distribution of child pornography, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.

By Press release submission | Mar 4, 2023
United States Attorney Christopher R. Kavanaugh announced today that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Virginia has implemented the new United States Attorney’s Offices’ Voluntary Self-Disclosure Policy.

By Press release submission | Mar 4, 2023
A Las Vegas resident was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge Kent J. Dawson to 78 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for defrauding hundreds of small business owners – many of them elderly – of about $12 million.

By Press release submission | Mar 4, 2023
A man and a woman have been indicted and accused of two armed carjackings in St. Louis, Missouri last May.

By Press release submission | Mar 4, 2023
A man from St. Louis, Missouri accused of involvement in a convenience store shootout was indicted Wednesday on drug and gun charges.

By Press release submission | Mar 4, 2023
Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Joleen D. Simpson, Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New England, today announced that THOMAS R. SAINT, 67, of Newtown, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday in Bridgeport federal court to one count of tax evasion.

By Press release submission | Mar 4, 2023
U.S. Attorney Dena J. King announced that a federal grand jury in Charlotte has indicted four co-conspirators for a scheme involving stolen United States Postal Service (USPS) money orders.

By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Mason Morey, age 26, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of attempted online enticement and 14 counts of production of child pornography.

By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney sentenced Brandon Eugene Massey, 38, of Blacksburg, S.C., to 151 months in prison, for conspiracy to distribute and to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, announced Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Judge Whitney also imposed five years of supervised release following incarceration.

By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
A Parma was sentenced today to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Donald C. Nugent after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit arson related to the destruction of a parking booth during the May 30, 2020, demonstrations and civil unrest in downtown Cleveland.

By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Ivelisse Rivera-Padilla and Carla Carrillo-Torres, and the company VIP Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (“VIP Healthcare”) were indicted by a federal Grand Jury in relation to bankruptcy fraud, a money laundering scheme, PPP fraud, and bank fraud announced W. Stephen Muldrow, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.

By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging JAMES ANDREW STILES, a/k/a “Andrew Stiles,” and EDWARD GRAY STILES, a/k/a “Gray Stiles,” with multiple counts of securities fraud and conspiracy to commit both wire fraud and securities fraud in connection with a scheme to commit insider trading based on misappropriated information about potential government loans to be made to the Eastman Kodak Company to finance the production of COVID-19-releated pharmaceutical components.

By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
A Mexican national was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in San Antonio to 25 years in prison for his involvement in a criminal organization.

By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Amy Burley, 47, of Barnstead, pleaded guilty in federal court today to embezzling more than $130,000 from both the Barnstead and Hampton School Districts, United States Attorney Jane E. Young announced today.

By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Ivelisse Rivera-Padilla and Carla Carrillo-Torres, and the company VIP Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (“VIP Healthcare”) were indicted by a federal Grand Jury in relation to bankruptcy fraud, a money laundering scheme, PPP fraud, and bank fraud announced W. Stephen Muldrow, U.S. Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico.

By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Michael J. Driscoll, the Assistant Director in Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced today the unsealing of an Indictment charging JAMES ANDREW STILES, a/k/a “Andrew Stiles,” and EDWARD GRAY STILES, a/k/a “Gray Stiles,” with multiple counts of securities fraud and conspiracy to commit both wire fraud and securities fraud in connection with a scheme to commit insider trading based on misappropriated information about potential government loans to be made to the Eastman Kodak Company to finance the production of COVID-19-releated pharmaceutical components.

By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Keechant L. Sewell, Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD”), announced the unsealing today of an Indictment charging KEVIN PEREZ, a/k/a “Kay Flock,” a/k/a “Kay,” a/k/a “KK,” DEVON MASON, a/k/a “BJ,” ERVIN BEAMON, a/k/a “EJ,” NICHOLAS JOHNSON, a/k/a “Nick,” SEAN SMITH, a/k/a “Sticky,” and JOSSI CASTRO, a/k/a “Jesse,” with racketeering conspiracy and other crimes related to their membership in “Sev Side,” or “DOA,” a street gang based in the Bronx, New York

By Press release submission | Mar 3, 2023
A Fayetteville man was sentenced yesterday to 140 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release on one count of Possession with Intent to Distribute Methamphetamine.