News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Michael Lees, a/k/a “Michael Lewis," a/k/a “Michael Dontask," 39, of Catasaqua, PA, was charged yesterday by indictment with the enticement of a minor, production of child pornography, attempted production of child pornography and possession of child pornography, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: The president of a transportation company based in Miami was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for his role in a health care fraud scheme involving three mental health centers that resulted in the submission of approximately $70 million in false and fraudulent claims to Medicare.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: WILMINGTON, Del. - Charles M. Oberly, III, United States Attorney for the District of Delaware, announced that an Indictment was handed down this week by a federal grand jury charging Frank D. Dolce, age 50, of Wilmington, Delaware with eight counts of tax fraud, one count of structuring to avoid reporting...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: Greenbelt, Maryland - U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang sentenced Francesca Maria Daniele, age 49, of LaPlata, Maryland, today to 21 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud in connection with the misuse of her government credit card. Judge Chuang also ordered Daniele to forfeit and pay restitution of $22,338.67, the amount of loss resulting from her conduct.
By USDA Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
Release: Washington -Private exporters reported to the U.S. Department of Agriculture export sales of 304,000 metric tons of soybeans for delivery to unknown destinations. Of the total 214,000 metric ton for delivery during the 2015/2016 marketing year and 90,000 metric tons for delivery during the 2016/2017 marketing year.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Brandy Archie, St. Louis, Missouri, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for selling her prescription drugs that had been submitted and paid by Medicaid.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Rohit Jawa, 25, formerly of Cincinnati, Ohio, was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that HW Group LLC, a Lexington County Farming Operation, has entered a guilty plea to a pattern and practice of employing illegal aliens, a violation of Title 8, United States Code § 1324a, and was sentenced to a one million dollar fine and 4 years of intensive supervision. Senior United States District Judge Joseph F. Anderson, Jr. of Columbia presided over the hearing.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: The two defendants used 27 different identities to obtain money meant for college but taken for personal use, including gambling.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: Highest-Ranking Navy Official Sentenced to 46 Months in Prison for Accepting Bribes from Foreign Defense Contractor in Massive Bribery and Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: A Holyoke man and a Chicopee man were charged in U.S. District Court in Springfield yesterday in connection with operating a scheme to transport drugs and cash between Texas and western Massachusetts that were concealed in secret compartments of vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Fawn Lynnstar Vigil, 30, an enrolled member of the Jicarilla Apache Nation who resides in Dulce, N.M., pleaded guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a child abuse charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN -U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell sentenced Raymond Valentino Bowser, age 31, of Chicago, IL, to 60 months in federal prison and 12 years of supervised release, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. Sentencing followed Bowser’s guilty plea, entered last December, to distribution of heroin within 1,000 feet of a playground.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: Assistant U.S. Attorney Russell T. Ippolito, Jr., who handled the case, stated that Diaz fraudulently obtained the credit/debit card numbers of actual people and then encoded counterfeit cards with the information illegally obtained. The defendant then used the counterfeit cards to purchase merchandise...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney, Deborah R. Gilg, announced that on March 24, 2016, an indictment was unsealed charging Quirstin Marie Gross, 24, of Beatrice, with conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute 50 grams or more of a substance containing methamphetamine between Dec. 1...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: The United States Attorney's Office for the District of Vermont stated that David Baez Garcia, age 49, a citizen of the Dominican Republic, was sentenced on March 18, 2016, to 17 years in jail and five years of supervised release for his role as the leader of a conspiracy to distribute five kilograms or more of cocaine, 100 grams or more of heroin and oxycodone from in or about Summer 2009 through in or about June 2010.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: Search of Defendant's Home Leads to Discovery Of Hundreds of Images of Child Pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: Defendant Illegally Collected Benefits including Housing and Food Assistance for more than 20 Years.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that JOHN B. JEFFREY, also known as TUCKER JEFFREY, 48, formerly of New Canaan, Conn., and currently a resident of Denver, Colo., waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty yesterday before U.S. District Judge Victor A. Bolden in Bridgeport to one count of wire fraud stemming from a scheme to defraud investors of more than $1.3 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 25, 2016
News Release: Gulfport, Mississippi. - Eduardo Guillermo Diaz, 58, of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, pled guilty on Tuesday, March 22, 2016, before U.S. District Judge Louis Guirola, Jr., to one count of mail fraud, U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis announced today.
