News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that CRAIG QUINTAL, age 40, of River Ridge, was indicted today for crimes involving the sexual exploitation of children.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Doug Coleman announced today the execution of over 15 arrest warrants stemming from a federal grand jury indictment of a predominantly female methamphetamine trafficking organization operating in the Colorado River Indian Reservation. Two other subjects were in custody at the time of the enforcement operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Mohamed Mansaray, 39, of Springfield, Pennsylvania, was charged by indictment, unsealed today, in an identity theft and tax fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment includes 10 counts of wire fraud, nine counts of aggravated identity theft, and 10 counts of aiding or assisting in preparation or filing of false income tax returns. Mansaray was arrested this morning.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge George J. Hazel sentenced Gregory Cooper, 59, of Glenn Dale, Maryland, a former U.S. Postal Service contracting officer, today to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for receiving bribes in connection with the awarding of mail delivery contracts. Judge Hazel also entered an order that Cooper forfeit $25,931.76.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Two area home health care workers entered guilty pleas this week for billing Medicaid for home healthcare services that were not provided, while three other individuals were indicted with similar Medicaid home healthcare fraud charges. The charges include a home health care worker billing...
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Sander Levin (D-MI) today issued the following statement after the Administration publicly released the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Earl Ferguson, 46, of Inwood, West Virginia, was convicted of prescription painkiller trafficking today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: An owner of an unlicensed money transmitter business was sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by two years of supervised release for failing to file Currency Transaction Reports and illegally sending money to Cuba. The defendant also agreed to forfeit $480,622 in United States currency representing the funds seized in connection with the offense.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Cory D. Foster, 27, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was arraigned today on an Indictment, charging him with three counts of robbery which interferes with interstate commerce, one count of carjacking, and four counts of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger and Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - Chief U.S. District Judge Glenn T. Suddaby sentenced Yarbrough Latulas today to 216 months imprisonment and 3 years of supervised release announced U.S. Attorney Richard S. Hartunian. On May 22, 2015, after a five day jury trial, a U.S. District Court jury convicted Yarbrough Latulas ...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in the Western District of North Carolina to Receive Access to Federal Criminal Databases and Technical Assistance from the Department of Justice.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - A four-count indictment was unsealed today in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Ohio charging four men with conspiring to travel to Yemen to provide thousands of dollars to Anwar Al-Alwaki in an effort to support violent jihad against U.S. military personnel in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the world. One of the men used to live in Kansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - Shirley Warner, 52, of Haydenville, was indicted in U.S. District Court in Springfield for stealing her deceased mother’s social security benefits for almost four years.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A nurse pleaded guilty on today in U.S. District Court in Worcester to stealing pain medication from patients in a nursing care facility in Worcester.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: Washington, D.C. - House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) released the following statement on the release of Chairman Rob Bishop’s (R-Utah) new bill to weaken the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), which the House Republican majority allowed to expire in September...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A Sacramento couple was sentenced today by United States District Judge Troy L. Nunley for a smash and grab vehicle burglary in South Sacramento, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal jury today convicted Chaka Fattah, Jr., 32, of Philadelphia, of 22 of 23 counts in connection with a scheme to defraud banks, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Philadelphia School District of hundreds of thousands of dollars. U.S. District Court Judge Harvey Bartle III scheduled...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: CLEVELAND - A Pittsburgh man currently being detained in federal custody in Ohio has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Cleveland, Ohio, on charges of solicitation to commit crimes of violence, United States Attorney David J. Hickton of the Western District of Pennsylvania and United States Attorney Steven M. Dettelbach of the Northern District of Ohio announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: TULSA, Okla.-The results of the November 2015 Federal Grand Jury were announced today by Danny C. Williams Sr., United States Attorney for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 5, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, DC - Today, the House selected Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) to serve as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Upon his selection, Chairman Brady released the following statement.
