News from October 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Two Broward County residents were sentenced to 12 and 11 years in prison for their participation in a stolen identity tax fraud scheme involving the personal identifying information of deceased individuals.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Montgomery, AL--On Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2016, Elizabeth Ann Grant, 53, of Seale, Alabama was sentenced by Chief United States District Judge W. Keith Watkins to six months in prison for criminal contempt of court.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: kidnapping two children from their Corpus Christi home, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Georgia Michelle Gregg, 31, pleaded guilty July 6, 2016, while her sister - Jada Nicole Gregg-Warren, 32 - and her sister’s boyfriend - Ivan Francisco Alvarez-Benavente, 27, pleaded guilty June 30, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: St. Louis, MO - Cristopher Cristea and David Corey Tolle were sentenced to 46 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $1,724,158; and three years probation and restitution of $526,750, respectively, on charges involving the solicitation of investors with promises of large returns from mining activities. Instead, the money was used to pay personal expenses and repay earlier investors. Tolle was sentenced today. Cristea was sentenced last week.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, defendant, Carlos Maldonado, owner of Business Planning Resources International Corporation (BPRIC), Glorimar Fashions and Tailoring, LLC, Global Business Insurance Agency Inc., and associated under the incorporation documents with Pet Card Systems, Inc., and Datavos Corporation...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON - The owner of two Arkansas mental health companies that provide inpatient and outpatient mental health services to juveniles was sentenced to serve 84 months in prison today for engaging in a scheme to bribe a former deputy director of the Arkansas Department of Human Services (ADHS), announced Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Pablo Orlando Rivera-Pachecho, a Mexican national, pled guilty in federal district court yesterday to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and to distribute over 10 kilograms of methamphetamine, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Thursday, Oct. 27, 2016, at 2:00 p.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging JASON PRAWL, also known as “Boots," 28, of Bridgeport, with two counts of sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Che Raffael Tidwell and Jill Allison Bradley both of Pocola, Oklahoma, were sentenced today on one count each of Aiding and Abetting the Distribution of Methamphetamine. Tidwell, age 37...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States Attorney David J. Hickton announced today that Assistant United States Attorney Shanicka L. Kennedy has been appointed to serve as the District Election Officer (DEO) for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In that capacity AUSA Kennedy is responsible for overseeing the District’s handling of complaints of voting rights abuses and election fraud in consultation with Justice Department Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
By USDA Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: EAU CLAIRE Wis., Oct. 27, 2016 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is providing more than $45 million to help farmers, ranchers, small businesses and entrepreneurs nationwide develop new product lines. USDA is investing in 325 projects through the Value-Added Producer Grant (VAPG) program.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE -United States Attorney Emily Gray Rice announced today that Jaclyn Hilow, age 29, of Winchester, New Hampshire was sentenced by United States District Judge Joseph A. DiClerico, Jr., to 120 months in federal prison. Hilow previously had pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute one kilogram or more of heroin.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, today announced that a grand jury in New Haven has returned an indictment charging JASON PRAWL, also known as “Boots," 28, of Bridgeport, with two counts of sex trafficking of a minor.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: A mother and son from Toledo were charged for their roles in a conspiracy to defraud people out of tens of thousands of dollars and then launder the stolen money, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that EDWIN GAMBOA-REYES, age 25, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced today after previously pleading guilty to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal entry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By USDA Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
Release: In the United States, farming and technology go hand-in-hand in production agriculture. Technology helps improve productivity, efficiency and safety. Now, we’re discovering new ways that technology and digital strategies can offer similar benefits when marketing U.S. farm and food products overseas.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York announced that BORIS KOTLYARSKY pled guilty to extortion conspiracy and extortion in connection with a scheme to extract payment from a person who believed that he was the subject of a murder-for-hire plot. KOTLYARSKY pled guilty this morning in Manhattan federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kevin Nathaniel Fox.
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: Forfeiture allegation of $2,900,000 dollars. SAN JUAN, P.R. - Today, defendant, Carlos Maldonado, owner of Business Planning Resources International Corporation (BPRIC), Glorimar Fashions and Tailoring, LLC, Global Business Insurance Agency Inc., and associated under the incorporation documents with...
By DOJ Newswire | Oct 27, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - Federal charges unsealed today accused 24 individuals of various drug offenses for allegedly using Amtrak trains to transport heroin and cocaine to Chicago from California.
