News from November 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Conrad Vasquez Salazar 43, of Las Cruces, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 20 years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for his conviction on conspiracy and firearms charges. Salazar also was ordered to pay $111,018.05 in restitution to the victim of his criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - Heath Unkart, age 26, of Hanover, Pennsylvania pleaded guilty today to theft of government property.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge William D. Quarles, Jr. sentenced Jeong Joon Moon, a/k/a Patrick Moon, age 47, of Germantown, Maryland, today to four years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to commit bank fraud, bank fraud and destroying records in a federal investigation, arising from a scheme to defraud financial institutions who loaned money to small businesses. Judge Quarles also entered an order that Moon forfeit $2,270,590.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Following a 23-day trial before United States District Court Judge Joan A. Lenard, a jury convicted Alejandro Amor, the owner of a Florida for-profit college called FastTrain, of one count of conspiracy to steal government money and twelve substantive counts of theft of government money. FastTrain admissions representative Anthony Mincey was also convicted of conspiracy to steal government money.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney for the Middle District of Georgia, Michael J. Moore, today announced the convictions on Friday of three individuals in an insurance fraud scheme in federal court in Albany, Georgia, following a three and a half week long trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Elizabeth R. Moellering, who handled the case, stated that the defendant applied for a passport in Buffalo, NY in November 2013. On the application, Johnson indicated that she had never before applied for a U.S. passport. However, in August 2000, the defendant had applied for a passport in Texas. That application was rejected due to indications of fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Defendant Exchanged Oxycodone Pills for Cash and Steroids.
By USDA Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Washington - The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is announcing that citrus growers in Florida have passed a referendum to amend their federal marketing order program.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A former paramedic was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester in connection with stealing Fentanyl, a Schedule II controlled substance, and then attempting to conceal her crime by replacing the Fentanyl with saline solution.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Jonathon Bouldin, 35, of Albuquerque, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court to violating the federal firearms laws.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Aura Voicu, 24, and Silviu Serban, 30, both of Bucharest, Romania, were charged today by Indictment with conspiracy to commit bank fraud, attempted bank fraud, and aiding and abetting, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Davel Godfrey Young, 52, of Montego Bay, Jamaica, was convicted of wire fraud today in federal court, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Roderick Talk, 43, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Sanostee, N.M., pleaded guilty this morning in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to voluntary manslaughter and assault charges under a plea agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Former California Attorney Pleads Guilty in International Investment Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to her role in a fraudulent tax return scheme that claimed $433,365 in fraudulent income tax refunds.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: CHICAGO - On April 13, 2015, this Office announced a joint federal and state investigation into the Oct. 20, 2014, fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald. Both before and since that announcement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and our law enforcement partners have been conducting a thorough investigation into the circumstances of the shooting.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Acting United States Attorney Donald Feith announced that three men who were involved in a scheme that distributed in excess of 1,000 kilograms of illegal synthetic cannabinoid products have been sentenced in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: RALEIGH - United States Attorney Thomas G. Walker announced that in federal court today United States District Judge Terrance W. Boyle sentenced MARKIE DEVON JONES, 39 of Clayton, North Carolina, to 180 months followed by 3 years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: DENVER - Eric Eugene Hartwell, age 53, of Denver, Colorado, was sentenced last Friday U.S. District Court Judge Philip A. Brimmer to serve 120 months (10 years) in federal prison, followed by 5 years on supervised release for escape and failure to register as a sex offender, U.S. Attorney John Walsh...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 24, 2015
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - Bertrand Awah Essem, age 27, of Beltsville, Maryland pleaded guilty today to conspiring to commit bank fraud.
