News from December 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Petr Kuzmenko, 38, of Loomis, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. to six and a half years in prison and ordered to pay $573,332 in restitution to the IRS for conspiracy to defraud the United States, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: PROVIDENCE - Andy Joseph, 24, of Brockton, Mass., was ordered detained in federal custody in Rhode Island today on allegations that he sex trafficked a 15-year-old Rhode Island resident over a two-month period this past summer. Joseph, arrested by Homeland Security Investigations agents and Pawtucket Police on Thursday, was ordered detained following an initial appearance today before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Lincoln D. Almond.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: BILLINGS - The United States Attorney’s Office announced that on Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016, in U.S. District Court in Billings, George Chad Deputee was sentenced to 9 years for sexually abusing a child in the 1990s. Deputee, 42, of Crow Agency, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Susan Watters to 108 months in custody followed by 5 years of supervised release after a trial jury found him guilty of aggravated sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact of a child.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: HAMMOND - United States Attorney David Capp announced today the unsealing of an Indictment against Lajuan Fitzpatrick, 25, of Danville, IL for drug conspiracy and using a firearm in relation to a drug trafficking crime in which an individual was murdered.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney for the District of Vermont and the Swanton Sector Office of the United States Border Patrol announce that Paulo Abelha, 49, a citizen of Portugal, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Burlington to an indictment which charges him with reentering the United...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: FARGO - US Attorney Christopher C. Myers announced that on Dec. 2, 2016, Gary Spencer Smith, 61, Becker County, Minn. (formerly of Fargo, ND), was sentenced before U.S. District Judge Ralph R. Erickson after pleading guilty in August 2016 to an Information charging him with Attempting to Evade and...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: McALLEN, Texas - A 26-year old resident of McAllen has entered a guilty plea to one count of receipt of child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Todd Rasberry, a/k/a “Champagne," 35, of Brooklyn, New York, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge Jon D. Levy to 11½ years in prison and three years of supervised release for distributing heroin. The defendant pled guilty to the charge on June 15, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: With approval of the full Republican conference, the House Republican Steering Committee has selected Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) as the chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce in the 115th Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr. sentenced Barbara Antonucci, an unlicensed tax preparer, today to three years and six months in prison and ordered to pay $1,895,833 in restitution for conspiring to file false claims and filing false claims, United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: FORT WORTH, Texas -Jose Luis Cepeda Cortes, 60, one of the Mexican citizens convicted for his role in the May 2013 murder of Juan Jesus Guerrero Chapa in Southlake, Texas, was sentenced yesterday, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that HOWARD HAMMER, 45, of New Milford, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Janet Bond Arterton in New Haven to a federal extortion charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DARRION YOUNG, age 32, was indicted yesterday for being a felon in possession of a firearm and making false statements to federal agents.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Jerod Kernen, 32, of Weirton, West Virginia, pled guilty to illegally possessing a firearm, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: DEC 02 - CONCORD, N.H. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Division and United States Attorney, Emily Gray Rice announced that Jazzmyn Rood, 42, of Gonic, New Hampshire, was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison and one year supervised release after pleading guilty to misprision of a felony in connection with the distribution of a controlled substance resulting in the death of her daughter Evangelique Tarmey.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Francis Joseph Douglas, 33, of Dumfries, was sentenced today to 120 months in prison for conspiracy to distribute 500 grams or more of cocaine and the use and carry of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: American Management Services LLC, based in Seattle, agreed to pay more than $1.6 million pursuant to a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve criminal charges that the company defrauded the U.S. Army and Virginia-based Clark Realty Capital LLC (Clark) while performing property management services for military housing at Fort Belvoir, Virginia; Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Irwin, California; and the Presidio at Monterey, California.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Sreedhar Potarazu, 51, of Potomac, Maryland pleaded guilty today to charges of inducing interstate travel to commit a fraud and failing to account for and pay over employment taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: Soon Phatdouang, 43; Touy Khamsai, 41 and Van Khamsai, 41 all from Webster City, Iowa, have been charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine. The charges are contained in a Complaint filed on Dec. 1, 2016, in United States District Court in Sioux City.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 2, 2016
News Release: CEO of Virginia Health Care Technology Company Pleads Guilty to $30 Million Shareholder Fraud and $7.5 Million Employment Tax Fraud.
