News from August 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Member Carmine Avellino and Associates Daniel and Michael Capra Admit to Threatening Two Victims in Efforts to Collect a $100,000 Loan.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Brandon Gregory Leal, 36, of Garland, Texas, was sentenced Monday by U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey to serve a total of 360 months in federal prison following his guilty pleas in March and April 2016 to child pornography and firearms offenses as charged in two Northern District of Texas (NDTX) cases, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the NDTX.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: A Lakewood man was sentenced to a year in custody and ordered to pay nearly $1.8 million restitution and fines for taking improper write-offs and not reporting taxable income, said Carole S. Rendon, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Kathy Enstrom, Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that on July 26, 2016, a federal grand jury in Scranton indicted Carrie F. Aker and Mario M. Valentine, a Shenandoah, Pennsylvania couple, for conspiracy to commit wire fraud using counterfeit credit...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced today a Transylvania Co. man to 41 months in prison for a federal firearms violation, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Bobie James Gibbens, 27, of Penrose, N.C. was also ordered to serve three years under supervised release upon completion of his prison term.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan today announced a settlement under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) with the city of Ecorse, Michigan, to ensure accessibility for individuals with disabilities at all of the city’s polling places. The case was commenced under the Justice Department’s compliance review authority.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that, WILLIAM CONLEY BOAZ II, age 27, of Allen, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 3 years of supervised release for ASSAULT IN INDIAN COUNTRY (MISDEMEANOR), in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 1152 and 113(a)(4).
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: ELKINS, WEST VIRGINIA - Jonathan J. Ross, 30, of Elkins, West Virginia, was sentenced to eight months in prison for possessing counterfeit money, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Miranda Rentz, 41, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Red Valley, Ariz., was sentenced today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., for her conviction on involuntary manslaughter and assault charges. Rentz will serve an 84-month prison sentence followed by three years of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Rockaway, New Jersey, residents who owned a mobile diagnostic testing company were each sentenced today to over six years in prison for receiving more than $4.8 million from Medicare and private insurance companies for diagnostic testing and reports that were never interpreted by a licensed physician, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Today, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger sentenced a South Carolina man to 75 months in prison on false claims conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Carmichael Cornilus Hill, 34, of Greenville, S.C. was also ordered to serve three years under court supervision and to pay $219,118 as restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Defendant admits selling guns, ammunition, and drugs to undercover agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a federal grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging JAMES BOWERS, 30, of New London, with one count of possession of a firearm by a previously convicted felon and one count of possession with intent to distribute marijuana. The indictment was returned on July 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Brouillette, Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative, Shot at APD Officers Twice while Trying to Evade Capture during Crime Spree.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Defendant embezzled $2.3 million from the university and did not report the money to the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman convicted of Mail Fraud was sentenced on Aug. 15, 2016, by Chief Judge Jeffrey L. Viken, U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Olden Minnick, a/k/a “O," age 53, of Clinton, Maryland, today on charges connected to a conspiracy to distribute heroin and marijuana.
By DOE Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: SEATTLE - In his testimony before a field hearing held today by Ranking Member Maria Cantwell and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz called for increased investments in U.S. energy emergency response. Secretary Moniz highlighted DOE’s expanded...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Tony Allen Riley, age 62, of Goose Creek, SC, was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Charleston, South Carolina, for selling a firearm to a person he knew to be under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 16, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Salvador Lopez-Hernandez, of Honduras, has pleaded guilty to reentering the United States after having been deported previously.
