News from October 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Earlier today, William D. Gulick, Jr., a registered sex offender from Commack, Long Island, pled guilty at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York, to receiving child pornography in interstate commerce. The proceeding took place before United States Magistrate Judge Steven I. Locke. At sentencing, Gulick faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 40 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Four defendants sentenced for their participation in various private health care fraud schemes.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Alicia A.G. Limtiaco, Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office hosted an Asset Forfeiture training conducted by Scott Gilbert, Assistant U.S. Attorney of the Southern District of Mississippi, and James Curt Bohling, Assistant U.S. Attorney...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA - A federal grand jury returned a 32-count indictment charging nine defendants, all residing in the United States illegally, in an interstate human trafficking case. The defendants were arrested yesterday in the Northern District of Florida and other locations. Their initial appearances in federal court took place yesterday and today. The indictment was announced by Christopher P. Canova, Acting United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office announced that those persons listed below were arraigned before the U.S. Magistrate and the indictments handed down by the Grand Jury unsealed.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that two men were sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Stefan R. Underhill in Bridgeport for engaging in a fraud scheme. ADAM MEYERS, 44, of Southbury, was sentenced to 18 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, and DANIEL WALL, 59, of Bridgeport, was sentenced to three years of probation, the first 12 months of which he must serve in home confinement.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice has reached 70 settlements involving 457 hospitals in 43 states for more than $250 million related to cardiac devices that were implanted in Medicare patients in violation of Medicare coverage requirements, the Department of Justice announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Defendant Boasted on Facebook After One of the Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A man who threatened to kill a United States Forest Service Law Enforcement Officer who came to the man’s home to ask about trash dumped in the San Bernardino National Forest has been convicted by a federal jury.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: BOSTON - A member of the Worcester Wildcats semi-professional football team was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Worcester for his role in carrying out a stolen identity refund fraud scheme that resulted in an almost $1 million loss to the federal government.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Pennsylvania Man Pleads Guilty to Running Sex Trafficking Operation to Compel Multiple Women and One Minor into Prostitution in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Elsewhere.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: United States Attorney ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, U.S. Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, was presented with the “Above and Beyond" Award on May 23, 2015, by the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR). The awards event was held at the Sheraton Laguna Resort & Spa...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Corderro Cody, 28, of Allentown, PA, pleaded guilty today to charges related to his running of a sex trafficking operation. Cody pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, 12 counts of sex trafficking, conspiracy to transport individuals across state lines for the purpose of prostitution, and one count of sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: ALICIA A.G. LIMTIACO, United States Attorney for the Districts of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands (NMI), was recognized as the “2015 Alumnus of the Year" by the Asian Pacific Island Law Students Association (APILSA) and the Asian Pacific American Law Journal (APALJ) at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) on April 25, 2015. U.S. Attorney Limtiaco is the first Pacific Islander to receive the award; she is a graduate of the UCLA School of Law Class of 1990.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that BOUBACAR DIALLO, age 35, of Metairie, pled guilty today to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with trafficking in counterfeit goods.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Defendant Got Gun and Shot Victim Following Earlier Altercation at Nightclub.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: Orlando, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that a federal jury has found Sandra Milena Nieves (41) and Eileen Santos (50), both of Orlando, guilty of conspiring to pass and possess counterfeit currency. The jury also convicted Nieves on substantive counts of passing and possessing...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Ronnie A. Brickhouse, 36, of Chesapeake, was sentenced today to 360 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin, and, for his distribution of heroin which resulted in the death of Robert Joseph Mills in February 2013.
By Homeland Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) announced a series of actions that aim to enhance the federal government’s cybersecurity efforts, including a new strategy to secure federal networks and new reporting guidance. Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, made the following statement in reaction to the announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 30, 2015
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that SERGIO GALVEZ-VELAZQUEZ, age 40, a citizen of Mexico, was charged today in a two-count Indictment with illegal use of a Social Security Number and false claim of citizenship to obtain employment.
