News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Portland, Maine: United States Attorney Thomas E. Delahanty II announced that Lonnie Ball, 28, of Pennsylvania, was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to 8 years in prison and three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He pled guilty on Nov. 16, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: On May 3, 2016, Natasha C. Mann, 29, of Cambria, was charged by indictment with conspiracy to distribute a mixture or substance containing MDMA, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, James L. Porter, announced today. MDMA is 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, a controlled...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that DELOYD JONES, a/k/a “Puggy," age 24; and BYRON JONES, a/k/a “Big Baby," age 25, both of New Orleans, were sentenced yesterday after having previously been found guilty of violating the Racketeer Influenced Corrupt Organization Act “RICO" as well as drug conspiracy, firearms conspiracy and murder charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Today, Gregory J. Haanstad, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, announced that Theresa Anthony (age 38) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, entered a plea of guilty in federal court. Anthony pleaded guilty to a one-count indictment that charged her with converting Supplemental Security...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, and Marlies Gonzalez, Special Agent in Charge, Department of Transportation (DOT-OIG), Office of Inspector General, announced that Airgas Doral, Inc. (Airgas Doral) pled guilty today before United States District Judge Robert...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - United States Attorney Billy J. Williams announced that Holiday Acquisition Corp. and Fortress Investment Group, LLC (collectively Holiday) agreed to pay $8.86 million to resolve alleged False Claims Act violations for submitting false claims to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to qualify veterans or a surviving spouse of a veteran for monthly benefits from the Aid and Attendance Program, announced U.S. Attorney Billy Williams.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Salem man was charged today in U.S. District Court in Boston with a scheme to defraud Home Depot of over $35,000.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The operator of a Brea-based investment company that prosecutors allege was a Ponzi scheme that brought in about $7 million with promises of breakthrough products made with graphene was arrested this morning on federal fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced today that Joseph Lamica, 26, of Brighton, NY, who was convicted of receipt of child pornography, was sentenced to 168 months in prison and 40 supervised release by U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford.
By Interior Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: WEST GLACIER, MONT. -Today, the National Park Service and the Glacier National Park Conservancy (GNPC) launched a new NPS Centennial shuttle bus service for bicycle riders on the Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR). This free service will operate seven days a week through June 26 or when the GTSR opens to vehicles...
By State Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Today, the co-chairs of the House of Representatives Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism issued the following statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom HaShoah...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Ordered to repay $931,000. Two Westlake men were sentenced to prison and ordered to repay $931,045 for illegally redeeming food stamps for more than a decade, said Acting U.S. Attorney Carole Rendon. Mahmoud Zayed, 61, was sentenced to 30 months in prison. His son Ashraf Zayed, 41, was sentenced to...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Special Agent in Charge Gary Tuggle of the Drug Enforcement Administration’(DEA) Philadelphia Division announced today that 51,461 pounds of prescription drugs were collected across Pennsylvania and Delaware during the DEA Philadelphia Division’s National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day event this past Saturday, April 30th.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Geoffrey R. Albertson, age 32, of Greenville, was sentenced in federal court in Anderson, for conspiracy to commit fraud, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371. United States District Judge Timothy M. Cain of Anderson sentenced Albertson to 60 months imprisonment and ordered him to pay over $11,000 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - Michael A. Dunn, 56, of Philadelphia, was charged today by indictment with one count of bank robbery, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger. The indictment charges that, on April 20, 2016, Robinson robbed the TD Bank at 1500 JFK Boulevard in Philadelphia.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The United States Drug Enforcement (DEA) today announced the arrest of Nidal Waked, one of the world’s most significant drug money launderers and criminal facilitators. Waked was arrested last Wednesday night in the El Dorado Airport in Bogota by the Colombian National Police, in close coordination...
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: LAS VEGAS, Nev. - A southern California man has pleaded guilty to defrauding 157 persons of over $4 million from 2009 through 2011 by selling them worthless, unregistered stock in a number of purported biofuels development businesses, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that David Sandy Lee Parks, age 60, of New Haven, Connecticut, pleaded guilty to six bank robberies in Pennsylvania and two other states.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: FBI Announces Arrest Made in Connection with a Bank Robbery Today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 5, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A Pittsburgh resident has been sentenced in federal court to 60 months’ probation with 12 months’ home detention on his conviction of conspiracy to distribute a quantity of crack cocaine, United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today.
