News from November 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced WALTER PORTER, a/k/a “Moonie," a/k/a “Urkel," age 40, of New Orleans, was sentenced today for his participation in the November 2010 murder of Christopher “Tiger" Smith.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - A federal grand jury sitting in Macon, Georgia returned an indictment against a resident of Columbus, Georgia on Nov. 9, which was unsealed today, for his role in a stolen identity refund fraud conspiracy, announced Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Caroline D. Ciraolo, head of the Justice Department’s Tax Division, and U.S. Attorney G.F. Peterman III for the Middle District of Georgia.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: MOBILE, Ala. - A Fairhope, Alabama Doctor, Richard Snellgrove, M.D., has been indicted and arraigned on charges that he prescribed various Controlled Substances outside the usual course of professional practice and not for a legitimate medical purpose announced Drug Enforcement (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Stephen G. Azzam and United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, and Michael J. Ferguson, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration for New England, announced that TEDDY STUART LOPEZ, JR., also known as “Chico" and “Junior," 20, of Waterbury, pleaded guilty today in Hartford...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Nine men were sentenced this week in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis for conspiring to provide material support to ISIL. GULED OMAR, 22, was sentenced today to 35 years in prison. MOHAMED FARAH, was sentenced to 30 years in prison. ABDIRAHMAN DAUD, 22, was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: PADUCAH, Ky. - United States Attorney John E. Kuhn, Jr., joined by Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Amy S. Hess, announced charges today against the current Ballard County Judge-Executive and former Ballard County Treasurer for executing a scheme that involved obtaining...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Investigations Have Yielded 59 Plea Agreements to Date.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: TOPEKA, KAN. - A federal grand jury returned an indictment Wednesday charging a Topeka man with a robbery in which he is alleged to have fired a gun, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Priscilla Ramirez, 27, of Stockton, California, was sentenced yesterday by Chief U.S. District Judge Timothy M. Burgess to serve two years in prison for possession of heroin, methamphetamine, and cocaine with intent to distribute, followed by three years of supervised release. Judge Burgess also ordered the forfeiture of $4,500 in drug proceeds found in Ramirez’s possession.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: For the first time in a laboratory setting, NIST scientists have made stop-action x-ray measurements of the way visible light interacts with atoms and molecules on near-instantaneous time scales.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: SCRANTON-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that a federal grand jury in Scranton returned a superseding indictment on Nov. 15, 2016, charging Thurman Stanley, age 39, of East Stroudsburg, with four new counts of sex trafficking by force and...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A high-ranking member of the international street gang “Mara Salvatrucha" (also known as MS-13) was sentenced today to 13 years in prison for participating in a racketeering conspiracy, which included acts of extortion, drug distribution, and conspiracy to commit murder, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: SOUTH BEND - United States Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana, David Capp, announced that Barbara West, 33, of South Bend, Indiana was sentenced before South Bend District Court Judge Jon. E. DeGuilio for possession with intent to distribute and distribution of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Four individuals and a corporation are facing federal charges for conspiring to steer West Virginia Division of Highways projects to a South Carolina business in exchange for bribes and kickbacks, United States Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld, II, announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Dear Mr. Wintrob: I write to request information on Oaktree’s servicing of mortgage loans purchased through the Distressed Asset Sale Program (DASP) within the Federal Housing Authority (FHA). DASP enables investors to purchase pools of distressed FHA-insured loans at auction and encourages pool purchasers...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Carlique DeBerry, 38, of Buffalo, NY, with distribution of fentanyl causing death and possession with intent to distribute fentanyl. The charges carry a mandatory minimum penalty of 20 years in prison, a maximum of life and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Dracut attorney pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston yesterday to filing false federal tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- A federal grand jury in the Western District of Wisconsin, sitting in Madison, returned the following indictments today. You are advised that a charge is merely an accusation and that a defendant is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty.
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announces that on Nov. 15, 2016, in federal court, Chief United States District Judge James C. Dever III, sentenced WALDA LUNA, 46, and PERFECTO RUANO, 57, both of Wallace, North Carolina, to lengthy terms of...
By DOJ Newswire | Nov 16, 2016
News Release: Baltimore, Maryland - U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz sentenced James Kingsborough, age 26, of Baltimore, Maryland, today to 10 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release, for being a felon in possession of a firearm. Kingsborough was convicted by a federal jury on June 22, 2016.
