News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that former New York State Senate Majority Leader DEAN SKELOS was sentenced today to five years in prison after having been found guilty by a federal jury of using his official position to obtain more than...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Defendant Prosecuted Under Federal “Worst of the Worst" Anti-Violence Initiative.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: SALT LAKE CITY - A jury returned a verdict Tuesday evening finding Kevin Carl Fortney, age 55, of Washington, Utah, guilty of making a false declaration before a court of the United States and making a false statement to a federal agent as a part of efforts to obstruct the administration of justice in a Securities and Exchange Commission case pending in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: “In the span of just 16 months, we have seen the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and sentencing of both leaders of the New York State legislature. The nearly simultaneous convictions of Sheldon Silver and Dean Skelos, whose corruption crimes were laid bare during fair and public trials, have no precedent.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - Two people were charged Wednesday with using stolen identities to sign phone service contracts qualifying them to buy iPhones at a deep discount, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN - Tyrone Smith, 46, of Lansing, Michigan, received a sentence of 25 years in federal prison for sex trafficking numerous women and one minor, U.S. Attorney Patrick Miles announced today. In November 2015, Smith pled guilty to two counts of using force, threats, fraud, and coercion...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 51-year-old former pharmacist has been convicted of drug trafficking charges in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOL Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Employer name: M&M Construction LLC, doing business as Michael Jones Contracting
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Concord, N.H.-Emily Gray Rice, United States Attorney for the District of New Hampshire, today announced that Scott Lojko, 40, of Concord, New Hampshire, pleaded guilty to a federal indictment charging him with bank robbery in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2113(a).
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that that a federal grand jury in Scranton has charged Anthony Diaz, age 48, of East Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, with defrauding his clients by using false and misleading statements and...
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Department of Justice Files Amicus Brief in Idaho Right to Counsel Case.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Eight San Juan County residents are facing federal narcotics trafficking charges as the result of a multi-agency investigation led by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the HIDTA Region II Narcotics Task Force into methamphetamine trafficking on the Navajo Indian Reservation in...
By US DOT Newswire | May 12, 2016
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By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: ROANOKE, VIRGINIA - A Tennessee man, who previously pled guilty to being part of conspiracy to distribute methamphetamine, was sentenced today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in Roanoke, United States Attorney John P. Fishwick Jr. announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a 27-year-old Carbondale man was sentenced today to 78 months in prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge Richard P. Conaboy in Scranton, for using a computer to download child pornography from an internet website.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: BATON ROUGE, LA - United States Attorney Walt Green announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging CHRISTOPHER G. YOUNG, age 53, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with distribution of child pornography and possession of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Theft of Government Property and Misappropriation by Fiduciary.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, Alabama - Christopher Quinton Hearlson (36), a resident of Phenix City, Alabama, was sentenced to 30 months in federal prison for failure to register as a sex offender, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. -- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Dallas McLamore, 30, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to distribute 280 grams or more of crack cocaine within 1000 feet of the Perry Housing Projects, was sentenced to 135 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By Interior Newswire | May 12, 2016
News Release: 2016 Inspirational Message of Peace Contest youth winners to be announced May 12Awards to be handed out at 24th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site "I Have a Dream" World Peace Rose Garden as part of the National Park Service 2016 centennial celebration activities.
