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News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Dena J. King announced today that Chukwudi Michael Okwara, 42, of Charlotte, was sentenced to 13 years in prison and three years of supervised release for his role as a money mule in a Business Email Compromise scheme. In June 2021, a federal jury convicted Okwara of multiple counts of money laundering, making a false statement to a financial institution, and aggravated identity theft.
- Winthrop Man Sentenced to Nine Years in Prison for Cocaine Distribution and Money Laundering Charges
News Release: BOSTON - A Winthrop man was sentenced in federal court in Boston on Aug. 15, 2022 for distributing over 15 kilograms of cocaine and for laundering or attempting to launder approximately $645,000 in cocaine proceeds.
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News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. - U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced today that Dyshika McFadden, 28, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of civil disorder, was sentenced to serve 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Charles J. Siragusa. McFadden was also ordered to pay $4,287 in restitution.
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News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - United States Attorney Brandon B. Brown announced that Evaristo Contreras-Silva, 49, of Haughton, Louisiana, has been found guilty by a jury in United States District Court in Shreveport of possession of a firearm by an illegal alien. The jury returned the guilty verdict yesterday afternoon. United States District Judge Elizabeth E. Foote presided over the two-day trial.
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News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Douglas Johnathan Wesley, 33, was sentenced today to 10 years in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for his participation in a foiled Fourth of July 2021 murder scheme.
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News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a Special Agent from the U.S. Department of Labor, Thomas Hartley, age 48, of Henryville, Pennsylvania, was charged yesterday in a second superseding indictment with engaging in multiple schemes to commit fraud.
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News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Darin R. Pastor, 51, currently of Morristown, NY, and Halford W. Johnson, 59, of Brockport, NY, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud, securities fraud, and wire fraud.
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News Release: INDIANAPOLIS - Darryl Brent Waltz, 48, of Greenwood, Indiana, and John Keeler, 72, of Indianapolis, were each sentenced today for devising and participating in election finance schemes. Waltz pleaded guilty to receiving fictitious donations and for lying and misleading FBI agents who were investigating...
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News Release: Arrested After Motorcycle Chase Across State Lines.
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News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Jackson man was sentenced to serve one year and one day in prison followed by three years of supervised release and ordered to pay over $402,000 in restitution to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for perpetrating a wire fraud scheme to steal federal funds, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Breen with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General.
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News Release: “Our Office mourns the passing of Andrew J. Maloney, who nobly served as the 33rd United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York with a passion for doing justice, a toughness honed as a boxer at West Point and Army Ranger, and supreme confidence in his prosecutors that resulted in amazing...
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News Release: Jackson, Miss. - A Pelham, Alabama woman was sentenced today to 12 months and one day in prison followed by 5 years of supervised release and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $621,411.51 for bank fraud, announced U.S. Attorney Darren J. LaMarca and Special Agent in Charge Jermicha Fomby of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Marvin Antonio Lantigua, age 31, of New York City, pled guilty today to possessing with intent to distribute a kilogram of fentanyl, announced United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman, Frank A. Tarentino III, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), New York Division, and Syracuse Police Chief Joseph Cecile.
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News Release: Ocala, Florida - United States District Judge Roy B. Dalton, Jr. has sentenced Timothy Ivory (44, Ocala) to seven years and six months in federal prison for possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Ivory had pleaded guilty on February 9, 2022.
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News Release: PHOENIX, Ariz. -Sage Jones, 30, of Sacaton, Arizona, was sentenced Aug. 15, 2022, by United States District Judge Dominic W. Lanza to 188 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Mr. Jones is a recognized member of the Gila River Indian Community. On March 24, 2021, Jones shot the victim multiple times, resulting in the victim’s death. Jones previously pleaded guilty on May 13, 2022, to Second Degree Murder.
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News Release: ST. LOUIS - Two former employees of the small St. Louis County city of Flordell Hills were accused in a grand jury indictment Wednesday of stealing a total of $663,000 over six years, well over the city’s typical annual budget.
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News Release: Defendant in ‘Grandparent Scam’ Network Sentenced for RICO Conspiracy Targeting Elderly Americans.
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News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Mary Francis Biggs, age 65, of Lexington Park, Maryland, late on Aug. 15, 2022, for conspiracy to commit theft of government property and for theft of government property in connection with a scheme to fraudulently obtain additional military disability...
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News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An Essex County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 12 months in prison for obstructing justice while on pre-trial release, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced.
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News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A Beaumont man has been sentenced to federal prison for violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.