News from July 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that an Alexandria man was sentenced to 20 months in prison for attempting to send obscene material to a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Marta Sawicka, 35, of Canada, pleaded guilty to attempting to enter the United States at a time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, before U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder. The defendant was then sentenced to time served.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: ALBANY, N.Y. - Joshua Stegemann, age 39, of Stephentown, New York, was sentenced today to serve 30 years of imprisonment, to be followed by lifetime supervised release, (i) possessing cocaine, heroin, and oxycodone with the intent to distribute; (ii) possessing two handguns in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime; (iii) unlawfully possessing three firearms and ammunition as a felon.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Memphis, TN - Three men involved in a lucrative drug trafficking conspiracy have been collectively sentenced to more than 400 months in federal prison. Edward L. Stanton III, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentences today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: In Separate Cases, Three Others also Sentenced on Federal Gun Charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Contact Assistant U.S. Attorneys Todd Robinson (619) 546-7994 and David Leshner (619) 546-7921.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that JOHN GALANIS, a/k/a “Yanni," pled guilty today to manipulating the market for Gerova Financial Group, Ltd. (“Gerova"), a publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and to defrauding the shareholders of that company. GALANIS pled guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and securities fraud before U.S. Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The Justice Department announced today the filing of civil forfeiture complaints seeking the forfeiture and recovery of more than $1 billion in assets associated with an international conspiracy to launder funds misappropriated from a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Global Head of HSBC’s Foreign Exchange Cash-Trading Desks Arrested for Orchestrating Multimillion-Dollar Front Running Scheme.
By State Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today welcomed the President’s signature into law of the Global Food Security Act of 2016 (S.1252 )...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Two stock promoters were charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud in connection with a scheme to fraudulently register shell companies with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issue shares in the companies that they and other conspirators secretly controlled, and sell the shares to the investing public at a profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss - Dr. Carl Reddix, 57, of Jackson, was charged today with paying bribes and kickbacks to former Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) Commissioner Christopher B. Epps in exchange for receiving contracts involving the MDOC and its operations, announced Acting United States Attorney Harold Brittain and FBI Special Agent in Charge (SAC) Donald Alway.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced Donte Maurice Johnson, age 30, of Baltimore, Maryland, to 183 months in federal prison, followed by five years of supervised release, for two commercial robberies and for using and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. The sentencing was held on July 19, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three Nixa, Mo., residents, a Springfield, Mo., resident and a Mexican national were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, which resulted in the murder of a Mexican national, Oscar Adan Martinez-Gaxiola.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Mother of Three Kidnapped the Children and Fled to Mexico.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - The former Chief Executive Officer and Vice President of Sales of Acclarent, Inc., a medical device company, were convicted by a federal jury in connection with distributing adulterated and misbranded medical devices.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: OAKLAND - DeSondra Michell Ward was sentenced yesterday to 18 months in prison, and ordered to pay $389,948.57 in restitution for stealing from and defrauding the University of California, Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science, announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch and FBI Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that three Nixa, Mo., residents, a Springfield, Mo., resident and a Mexican national were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, which resulted in the murder of a Mexican national, Oscar Adan Martinez-Gaxiola.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Two stock promoters were charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud in connection with a scheme to fraudulently register shell companies with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issue shares in the companies that they and other conspirators secretly controlled, and sell the shares to the investing public at a profit.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 20, 2016
News Release: Muadhdhin Bey, age 33, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged today by Indictment1 with possessing a firearm and ammunition on March 28, 2016, after having been convicted of a felony offense, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
