News from June 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, upholding affirmative action programs at the University of Texas at Austin. House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Ranking Member Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), and Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Ranking Member Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) released the following joint statement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Nicolette P. Valentine, 37, of Liberty, Utah, pleaded guilty yesterday to bank fraud, concealment of assets in connection with a bankruptcy case and false statements under oath, U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson announced. Valentine was indicted by a federal grand Jury in Coeur d'Alene on Feb. 18, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Nine defendants have been sentenced for conspiracy, theft of government funds, and aggravated identity theft. The sentences were announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that Aida Crespo, age 44, pleaded guilty yesterday to one count of an Indictment that charged her with submitting a false and fraudulent tax return to the Internal Revenue Service. Crespo was previously indicted by a federal grand jury on October 7, 2015.
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today released the following statement on the Zika conference report...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: AUGUSTA, GA - A 30-year-old woman pleaded guilty yesterday for her role in a Jamaica-based lottery fraud scheme. Vania Lee Allen pleaded guilty in the Southern District of Georgia to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and false impersonation of an employee of the United States. Allen faces a maximum statutory sentence of five years in prison. A sentencing date has not been scheduled.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Stefon D. Clark, Ayanna Johnson, and Quantaves Curry, have been sentenced to three years, five months in federal prison for conspiracy to commit bank fraud in connection with their scheme to deposit fraudulent checks at USAA, the Navy Federal Credit Union, and BB&T.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: The Office of the United States Attorney for the District of Vermont announced that Arturo Puello, age 32, of Queens, New York, was sentenced on June 22, 2016 in the U.S. District Court in Brattleboro, Vermont, for possessing counterfeit United States currency. Judge J. Garvan Murtha sentenced Puello...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA -United States Attorney Walt Green announced that QUENTRELL D. FOUNTAIN, age 28, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was sentenced to serve 13 years in federal prison for discharging a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence (obstruction of justice). Specifically, the defendant was...
By State Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued a statement supporting the administration’s decision to impose sanctions against an individual who has contributed to the ongoing political crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The announcement...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Tyree Mansell, 40, of Philadelphia, PA, Sterling Wallace, 27, and Jamain Wallace, 26, of Philadelphia and Yeadon, PA, were charged today by indictment with conspiracy to commit Hobbs Act robbery, Hobbs Act robbery, attempted Hobbs Act robbery, and carrying a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenyen Brown of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama and his civil rights staff members, hosted a gathering of LGBTQ community leaders from a variety of groups in Mobile and Southern Alabama this week.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Deborah K. Chasanow sentenced Moses Wood Brown, Jr., age 38, of Hillcrest Heights, Maryland, today to 162 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for possession with intent to distribute cocaine base and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime. Judge Chasanow also ordered Brown to forfeit $42,758, a firearm, ammunition and a bulletproof vest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Emmanuel Chaplain, age 26, of Omaha, Nebraska, was sentenced by the Honorable Laurie Smith Camp after a federal jury convicted him of multiple robberies and firearms charges in March. The jury found Chaplain guilty of seven counts of interference...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England and Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Amonda Mendez, also known as “M-Dot" and “Dot," 25, of Bridgeport, was sentenced by U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: LAFAYETTE, La. - United States Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced today that a Mexican citizen pleaded guilty to a charge that he reentered the United States illegally twice.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: A Palm Beach County resident pled guilty for his participation in a stolen identity tax refund fraud conspiracy involving students and other individuals’ personal identifying information (PII).
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Pine Ridge, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for False Statements Relating to Health Care Matters and Attempt to Obtain Controlled Substance by Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Deborah R. Gilg announced that Jesse Lucio, 39, formerly of Chadron, Nebraska, was sentenced today in Lincoln, Nebraska, to 19 years in prison by United States Senior District Judge Richard G. Kopf, for the production of child pornography. Following his release from prison, Lucio will serve 10 years on supervised release and be required to register as a sex offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 23, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A South Dartmouth man was indicted today on child pornography offenses.
