News from March 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former state circuit judge in Arkansas was sentenced today to 120 months for accepting a bribe in exchange for reducing a negligence verdict against a company in Conway, Arkansas, announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division and First Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick C. Harris of the Eastern District of Arkansas.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Nader Jaser Abdullah, Houston, TX, pled guilty to the armed robberies of five banks spanning five states, including the Lindell Bank here on July 14, 2015. Abdullah entered his plea today before United States District Judge E. Richard Webber. He is scheduled for sentencing June 23, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A New Lenox man who traded dozens of photos and videos of child pornography was sentenced today to more than ten years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Attorney Failed to Disclose His Practice of Law to Social Security Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A second man pleaded guilty to a federal civil rights crime for tying a rope and Confederate flag around the neck of the James Meredith Statue at the University of Mississippi. Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced that BRANDON MICHAEL JONES, age 37, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, was sentenced to 210 months imprisonment, followed by 5 years of supervised release for DRUG CONSPIRACY, in violation of Title 21, United States Code, Sections 841(a)(l) and 841(b)(l)(A).
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that a federal grand jury in Raleigh, North Carolina returned a three count indictment charging JAMES STEPHEN THORPE a/k/a J1, JOSHUA RAYSHAWN MELVIN a/k/a J.O., ERVIN MONTEZ ALSTON, JR. a/k/a Wes or Wesley...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: PHOENIX - Gregory S. Ott, 65, of Prescott, Ariz., was sentenced by Senior United States District Judge Fredrick J. Martone to 12 months in prison for evading the payment of federal employment taxes he collected from numerous small business owner clients. Ott had previously pleaded guilty to evasion of payment of tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: WILLIAMSPORT - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Williamsport indicted three California men on Nov. 12, 2015, charging them with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bank fraud, and fraud in connection with identification documents in an alleged nationwide scheme to defraud five banks and over 40 jewelry stores, including stores in State College and Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - An indictment was filed today charging Daryl Stevens, 45, of Bethlehem, PA, with four counts of mail fraud, and an information was filed charging Justin Jordan, 34, of East Brunswick, NJ, and Christopher Cook, 40, of Ocean Township, NJ, with multiple counts of mail fraud, in connection with a million-dollar fraud scheme, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that STEPHEN P. BROWN was sentenced to 292 months in prison and supervised release for life for attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity. United States District Judge Nelson S. Román imposed the sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that AKEEM MANOO, a.k.a. “Keeme," 25, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Alker Meyer in New Haven to 120 months of imprisonment, followed by five years of supervised release, for gang-related narcotics trafficking.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Amanda Randolph to Serve Eight Months in Federal Prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: A 25-year-old Flint man was arraigned on March 18 on a two-count indictment charging him with making false declarations before a court, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Awaits State Trial for Murder. GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On March 23, 2016, Jamarcus Lavelle Jackson, 26, of Johnson City, Tenn., was sentenced by the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Court Judge, to serve 120 months in federal prison. Jackson was previously convicted at trial of being a felon in...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Man stole thousands of letters from main downtown Indianapolis post office.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Christopher N. Bonick, 31, of Antioch, Tennessee, was found guilty by a federal jury yesterday of attempting to entice a minor to engage in sexual activity and possession of child pornography, announced David Rivera, United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee. The jury returned a guilty verdict following a 2-day trial before U.S. District Judge Aleta Trauger.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: Bassem Afif Herz, age 31, pleaded guilty today in United States District Court in Cedar Rapids, to charges relating to a scheme to illegally ship firearms and ammunition to Lebanon.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: ATLANTA - Frederick Jenkins and Willie Jenkins have each been sentenced to over six years in federal prison after a jury convicted them of preparing and filing false tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 24, 2016
News Release: The public is invited to learn more about Assateague Island National Seashore's Draft General Management Plan / Environmental Impact Statement at one of three open houses on March 29th, 30th and 31st. The public open houses will provide an opportunity for the public to learn more about the alternatives proposed for the Island's future. National Park Service staff will be on hand to answer questions. People can come at any time during the hours of the open house.
