News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the convictions of GEORGE GULDI, a former Suffolk County legislator and disbarred attorney, and VICTORIA DAVIDSON for defrauding Ditech Financial LLC, a mortgage lender, out of more than a quarter of a million dollars. The jury convicted GULDI and DAVIDSON of all counts following an approximately two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein.

News Release: Memphis, TN - Cody James Dimmett, 29, has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for assault of a federal officer and the use and discharge of a firearm during the assault. United States Attorney Kevin G. Ritz announced the sentence today.

News Release: PITTSBURGH, PA -- A resident of Covina, California, pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of violating federal narcotic laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: A former Bureau of Prisons (BOP) correctional officer was arrested today in Oahu, Hawaii, on criminal charges related to his alleged sexual abuse of female inmates.

News Release: Chance Seneca, 21, of Lafayette, Louisiana, was sentenced today to 45 years in federal prison for kidnapping and attempting to murder a gay man as part of a months-long scheme to kidnap and murder gay men.

News Release: MIAMI - Former Miami-Dade County resident Judith Dianne Paris-Pinder, 49, has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for defrauding more than 500 people out of $2.4 million through a Ponzi investment fraud scheme.

News Release: Two Florida men were sentenced today in federal court in the Middle District of Florida for hate crime charges in connection with their racially-motivated attack against a Black man in Citrus Springs.

The US Justice Department published a one page notice on Jan. 25, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ILONA DZHAMGAROVA, ARTHUR ARCADIAN, and IGOR REZNIK have each pled guilty to conspiracy to commit immigration fraud. DZHAMGAROVA and ARCADIAN pled guilty today, and REZNIK pled guilty on Aug. 24, 2022, each before U.S. District Court Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil.

News Release: WASHINGTON-The Justice Department announced today that it has concluded there is reasonable cause to believe that the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (LDOC) routinely confines people in its custody past the dates when they are legally entitled to be released from custody, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - MAURICE FLORANT, age 34, a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, was charged on Jan. 26, 2023 in a two-count indictment for violations of the Federal Gun Control Act.

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Brian D. Boyle, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, today announced that RAFAEL MARTINEZ, 31, of New Britain, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty yesterday in Hartford federal court to fentanyl distribution and firearm possession offenses.

News Release: Memphis, TN - Kevin G. Ritz, United States Attorney for the Western District of.

News Release: A Chinese national was sentenced today to eight years in prison for acting illegally within the United States as an agent of the People’s Republic of China.