News from May 2016
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - A federal jury convicted Richard Shusterman, age 53, of Highland Beach, Florida late on May 2, 2016, of conspiring to commit wire fraud and nine counts of wire fraud in connection with a complex scheme to defraud investors and lenders of $278 million by selling fraudulent investment...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Tampa, Florida - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces that Samuel Murad (62, Clearwater) has pleaded guilty to tax evasion and witness tampering. He faces a maximum penalty of 5 years’ imprisonment for the tax evasion count and up to 20 years in federal prison for the witness tampering count. His sentencing hearing has been set for August 4, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Peggy Sue Stanley-Mickens Admits to Using Town Funds for Personal Home Improvements.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - The ring-leader of a group of individuals who were involved in the January 2015 take-over style robbery of an AT&T store in Grand Prairie, Texas, was sentenced yesterday to a lengthy federal prison sentence, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA - At the conclusion of a five-week jury trial, Ona M. Colasante, 59, a physician from Gainesville, Florida, was convicted yesterday of 162 counts of health care fraud. The verdict was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - Christopher Tyler, 38, of Washington, D.C., was sentenced today to a 77-month prison term on federal charges stemming from two robberies of grocery stores, U.S. Attorney Channing D. Phillips announced.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announces Elizabeth Burghard as the Medford District Manager. Burghard replaces Dayne Barron who held the position of Medford District Manager.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A Riverside man has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possessing about 100 images depicting child pornography, including sexually explicit pictures of pre-pubescent girls under the age of 12.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: BROOKLYN, N.Y. - A five-count indictment was unsealed this morning in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, against nine defendants, Jared Mitchell, the Managing Partner of Mitchell & Sullivan Capital LLC; Richard Brown, a registered broker; Christopher Castaldo, the Chief Executive Officer of Stock Traders...
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A company and its subcontractor have paid a total of $13 million to resolve allegations under the False Claims Act that they overcharged the government in various ways under the Defense Transportation Coordination Initiative contract in part by billing the cost of moving freight by air when it was actually shipped by ground, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that JOHN VESCERA, 60, of Dana Point, Calif., waived his right to indictment and pleaded guilty today before Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to false advertising and misusing a government seal in connection with the provision of mortgage modification services.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that Reco Valarie Cauthen, age 42, of Lancaster County, South Carolina has entered a guilty plea in federal court in Columbia, South Carolina to possession of a firearm by convicted felon, a violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1).
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Joplin, Mo., man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for the armed robbery of a local jewelry store.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: HONOLULU - U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin S.C. Chang today sentenced Samantha Lealoha Watanabe, 38, of Oahu, to 30 days of imprisonment and one year of supervised release, including 90 days of home detention for assaulting her 15-month old child while onboard an Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Honolulu on March 3, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Richard C. Sihner, 54, of Elk Grove, was sentenced today to two years and six months in prison for a scheme to fraudulently obtain bonuses in a recruitment program for the California National Guard, Acting United States Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Shahid Hassan Muslim, aka “Sharp," 33, was sentenced today to life in prison for operating an extensive sex trafficking enterprise that recruited women and girls - some as young as 16 years old - into prostitution.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: PENSACOLA, FLORIDA - Deangelo A. Rome, 25, of Pensacola, pled guilty today to unlawfully possessing a firearm and ammunition as a convicted felon. The guilty plea was announced by Christopher P. Canova, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Florida.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: Rochester, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury in Rochester, NY has returned a two-count indictment charging Jennifer Passeck of embezzling and converting to her own use proceeds and property of the United States Postal Service. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both.
By Interior Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: They ate mammals like rabbits, pocket gophers, woodrats, and mice. Native and fallen backyard fruit, too, and in very rare cases, a domestic cat. That, at least, was part of the findings in a National Park Service study of coyotes between 1996 and 2004 in the suburban Conejo valley, on the edge of Los Angeles.
By DOJ Newswire | May 3, 2016
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Ronnie D. Rael, 30, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 18 months in federal prison followed by two years of supervised release for his conviction on burglary and theft charges arising out of the burglaries of Albuquerque area post offices in Oct. and Nov. 2015.
