News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Florida man was charged for his role in conspiracies to pay illegal kickbacks and to commit health care fraud that caused at least $64 million in losses to federal health care benefit programs, Attorney for the United States Vikas Khanna announced today.

News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic City, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 66 months in prison for escaping from federal custody and engaging in a scheme to defraud women over telephone dating services, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.

News Release: Vijesh Patel, M.D. and his office manager and wife Laju Patel, both of Port Neches, Texas, have agreed to pay $422,789 to resolve False Claims Act allegations that they received illegal kickbacks in violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute in return for referring patients for laboratory testing, and both have agreed to cooperate with the Department of Justice’s investigations of, and litigation against, other participants in the alleged schemes.

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHARLES YOUNG, also known as “Cash," 36, of Bridgeport, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to 69 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for...

News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Cheyenne McIntosh (26, Bradenton) has pleaded guilty to making a false statement on an ATF form. McIntosh faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and has agreed to forfeit seven firearms. A sentencing date has not yet been set.

News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Andrew P. Gordon to 84 months in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release for attempted receipt and possession of hundreds of child sexual abuse material.

News Release: LOS ANGELES - A former Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officer was sentenced today to 70 months in federal prison for smuggling what he believed was methamphetamine through Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in exchange for a total of $8,000 in cash. .

News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Richard D. Bennett sentenced Trayvon Hall, a/k/a “Tru," and “G Tru," age 31, of Baltimore, yesterday to 454 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for racketeering and drug conspiracy charges, related to his activities as the...

News Release: Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that SUNI MUNSHANI, the former Chief Executive Officer of a Connecticut-based technology company (the “Victim Company"), pled guilty today in Manhattan federal court in connection with a scheme to defraud...

News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney Roger B. Handberg announces that Jacquelyn DeVito (40, Brandon) has pleaded guilty to 10 counts of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance and 1 count of acquiring a controlled substance by fraud. DeVito faces a maximum penalty of 20 years in federal prison...

News Release: HOUSTON - A 28-year-old Houston man remains in custody pending trial on federal hate crime charges allegedly motivated by gender identity and sexual orientation, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

News Release: Defendant attempted to assault man with a firearm during argument inside a McDonald’s.

News Release: NEW ORLEANS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that FOUAD K. ZETON was indicted on December 8, 2022 for conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

News Release: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Alexander M.M. Uballez, United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico, and Raul Bujanda, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Albuquerque Field Office, announced today that Jeffrey Alan Chavez and Estevan Antonio Ramirez appeared in federal court facing drug trafficking and firearms charges. They will remain detained pending preliminary and detention hearings scheduled for Dec. 12.

News Release: GREENSBORO, N.C. - A Greensboro resident was sentenced on Dec. 12, 2022, in federal court in Greensboro for knowingly possessing with intent to distribute cocaine base, possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking g offense, and being a felon in possession of a firearm, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Hairston of the Middle District of North Carolina.