News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: BOISE - U.S. Attorney Josh Hurwit announced today that the office’s Financial Litigation Program, which is part of the Asset Recovery Division, collected more than $5.6 million in criminal restitution, fines, and assessments and in civil debts for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2022. In some...

News Release: DETROIT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan settled a complaint regarding the failure of a local law office to provide free American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation services for a client who is deaf, in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Stephanie A. Gallagher sentenced Donald Hildebrandt, age 52, of Bel Air, Maryland, yesterday to 25 years in federal prison, followed by lifetime supervised release, for sexual exploitation of a child to produce child pornography, and possession of child pornography. The indictment was returned on June 3, 2021. Hildebrandt is a former Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) officer with the Baltimore Police Department.

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOSE MIGUEL VEGA-RIVERA, 50, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 90 months of imprisonment for trafficking fentanyl and cocaine.

News Release: FLINT - A 37-year-old Flint Man was sentenced today to 9 years in federal prison for using the stolen identities of dozens of victims to commit identity theft and bank fraud, United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison announced.

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and John Gay, the Inspector General of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (the “Port Authority"), announced the unsealing of an Indictment charging DANIEL ABAYEV and PETER LEYMAN with two counts of conspiracy...

News Release: 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 the extradition of SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED, a/k/a “SBF," yesterday from the Bahamas.[1].

News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge Virginia M. Hernandez Covington today sentenced Cleate Wilson (40, Tampa) to six years and six months in federal prison for forcibly resisting, opposing, impeding, and interfering with two Deputy United States Marshals (DUSMs) and possessing a firearm and ammunition...

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Joshua Dean Sprague, 42, of Parkersburg, was sentenced today to three years and one month in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm.

News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - William Lawrence Bryant, 32, of Fayetteville, pleaded guilty today to sexual exploitation of a minor and distribution of child pornography.

News Release: Tampa, Florida - U.S. District Judge William H. Jung has sentenced Daniel Tondre (52, Tampa) to four years in federal prison for his role in a health care fraud kickback conspiracy. The court also ordered him to forfeit $483,000, the proceeds of his offenses and to pay a $25,000 fine. On May 24, 2022...

News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Advanced Bionics LLC, a Valencia, California, based manufacturer of cochlear implant systems, will pay $11.36 million to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations for misleading federal healthcare programs regarding the radio-frequency (RF) emissions generated by some of its cochlear implant processors. The settlement was announced today by United States Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero and the Justice Department.

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that GREGORY C. BANKS, 50, of Brookfield, waived his right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to health care fraud.

News Release: MINNEAPOLIS - A federal grand jury returned an indictment against a Maple Grove man for an armed carjacking at a Blaine grocery store, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger.

News Release: Memphis, TN - Curtis Boyd, 28, has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possession with the intent to distribute marijuana and possession of a firearm. United States Attorney Kevin Ritz announced the sentence today.