News from September 2016
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Philadelphia man was sentenced today to 96 months in prison for sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas returned an indictment last week, charging Sunnyvale, Texas, resident, Jimmy Luis Briseno, with thirteen counts of preparing false and fraudulent income tax returns and one count of conspiracy, announced John Parker, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Justice Department Reaches Settlement with Charter Bank to Resolve Allegations of Lending Discrimination.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - Providence-based skilled nursing facility operator Health Concepts, Ltd., and its Chief Operating Officer, John Gage, have agreed to pay $2.2 million to resolve allegations concerning inflated Medicare claims.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - An Orange County man who deceived distressed homeowners with false promises that he could help them avoid foreclosure by obtaining modifications to their mortgages - or even completely eliminating their loans - was convicted today on federal fraud charges.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Peter Romar, 37, a Syrian national affiliated with the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), pleaded guilty today to felony charges of conspiring to receive extortion proceeds and conspiring to unlawfully access computers. Romar was previously extradited from Germany on request of the United States.
By State Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following statement regarding the announcement by the Department of the Treasury of new sanctions against current and former government officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced today that CHARLES DWANE BROWN, age 43, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2)., punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, up to a $250,000 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Jacksonville, FL - United States Attorney A. Lee Bentley, III announces the unsealing of an indictment charging Gregory Allen Baker, 28, William Peter Wagner, 25, Ashley Hinson, 27, Heather Marie Wagner, 30, and Elijah Adams, all of Jacksonville, with conspiracy to import anabolic steroids, conspiracy...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted a civilian hospital employee on charges of attacking and injuring two women, one who he set on fire and the other who he attacked when she tried to help the victim, Acting U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: In San Antonio today, 57-year-old Gabriel Robert Caggiano of Los Angeles, CA, was sentenced to 41 months in federal prison for stalking a former employer and his wife who reside in San Antonio announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Peter Romar, 37, a Syrian national affiliated with the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), pleaded guilty today to felony charges of conspiring to receive extortion proceeds and conspiring to unlawfully access computers. Romar was previously extradited from Germany on request of the United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A Corpus Christi prisoner has been sentenced to prison for escaping from a halfway house and for assault on a federal employee, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Desmond Deon Jones, 29, pleaded guilty June 13, 2016.
By DOL Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Today, the House passed the Regulatory Relief for Small Businesses, Schools, and Nonprofits Act (H.R. 6094), legislation introduced by Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), chairman of the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections, to require a six-month delay in the effective date of the Department of Labor’s extreme ...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, NY - U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that eight defendants were arrested and charged by criminal complaint with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute and distribution of one kilogram or more of a substance containing heroin, possession with intent to distribute and distribution of heroin, and use of a telephone to facilitate drug trafficking. The charges carry a minimum penalty of 10 years in prison and a maximum of life.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- Acting United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Joshua A. Martin, age 29, of Spartanburg, pled guilty yesterday in federal court in Anderson, to conspiracy to pass Treasury checks of the United States bearing falsely made or forged endorsements, a violation of...
By Homeland Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: NEW ORLEANS - A Rwandan national accused of genocide was removed Wednesday from the United States by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO).
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Jackson, Miss. -The United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Mississippi, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States Marshals Service (USMS), Hinds County Sheriff’s Department...
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: A 30-count indictment was unsealed today, charging a dozen people with conspiring to distribute cocaine throughout Greater Cleveland, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Stephen D. Anthony, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Cleveland Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Sep 28, 2016
News Release: Defendant Possessed 70 Counterfeit $100 Bills.
