News and reports from the Department of Justice.

News Release: HOUSTON - A 36-year-old Sugar Land resident has been taken into custody on charges he fraudulently obtained and laundered more than $500,000, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

News Release: COLUMBUS, Ga. - A convicted felon and documented member of the Crips criminal street gang organization operating in Columbus was sentenced to serve more than ten years in prison for armed drug trafficking.

The US Justice Department published an eight page notice on Dec. 2, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

News Release: CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. - On Dec. 2, 2022, Jamaal Parker, also known as “MoneyMaal," 38, of Chattanooga, was sentenced to 290 months in prison by the Honorable Travis R. McDonough, Chief United States District Judge, in the United States District Court at Chattanooga. Parker was ordered to forfeit $21,289.04 in drug proceeds to the United States. Following his imprisonment, Parker will be on supervised release for a period of five years.

News Release: Vanessa Roberts Avery, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID McMANUS, 57, of Granby, was sentenced today by U.S. Circuit Judge Sarah A. L. Merriam in Bridgeport to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for fraud and tax offenses stemming from his embezzlement of funds from his employer.

News Release: HOUSTON - A 36-year-old Sugar Land resident has been taken into custody on charges he fraudulently obtained and laundered more than $500,000, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

News Release: Charges were unsealed today against eight individuals for conspiring to defraud the Georgia Department of Labor of tens of millions of dollars in federal funds intended for unemployment benefits.

News Release: MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA - Yesterday, former physician D’livro Lemat Beauchamp, 56, of Montgomery, Alabama, was sentenced to 135 months in prison for his role in a scheme to illegally distribute oxycodone, announced United States Attorney Sandra J. Stewart.

News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 34-year-old man has admitted to receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Jennifer B. Lowery.

News Release: NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA - United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that FLORENCE RANDLE (“F. RANDLE"), age 70, of Gibson, Louisiana, pled guilty on Nov. 29, 2022 to Count One (1) of her indictment, charging her with Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud in violation of Title 18, United States...

News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that on Nov. 29, 2022, James Edward King, III, age 45, of Danville, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by United States District Court Chief Judge Matthew W. Brann, to 210 months’ imprisonment for methamphetamine trafficking.

News Release: PITTSBURGH - A former resident of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, has been sentenced in federal court in Johnstown to 360 months’ (30 years’) imprisonment and a lifetime term of supervised release upon his conviction for violating federal child sexual exploitation laws, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

News Release: ABB Ltd. (ABB), a Swiss-based global technology company listed on the New York Stock Exchange with core businesses focused on electrification, automation, motion, and robotics has agreed to pay more than $315 million to resolve an investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) stemming from the bribery of a high-ranking official at South Africa’s state-owned energy company.

News Release: PITTSBURGH - Luis Morales was sentenced to five years (60 months) in prison for possessing with intent to distribute at least 500 grams of cocaine, United States Attorney Cindy K. Chung announced today.

News Release: LAS VEGAS - A Las Vegas man was sentenced on Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Jennifer A. Dorsey to 92 months in prison followed by four years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine.