News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - An operator of a San Fernando Valley trucking school was arrested this morning by federal authorities after he and the owner were indicted on federal charges that allege they bilked the Department of Veterans Affairs out of well over $4 million in tuition and other payments after falsely certifying that veterans had attended classes, when they never had.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - Two Southeast Texas men have been sentenced to prison for federal drug trafficking violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Tampa, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury today found Fayez Abu-Aish (51, St. Petersburg) and Nedal Abu-Aish (48, St. Petersburg) guilty of conspiring to distribute, distribution of, and possession with the intent to distribute a substance containing XLR-11. Each faces penalty of 20 years in federal prison. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: BOISE - Justin Gomez, 29, of Barstow, California, was convicted yesterday evening by a federal jury of possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez, announced. The jury’s decision came after a two-day trial in federal court in Boise. Gomez, who has two prior felony drug convictions, now faces mandatory life in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: SAN FRANCISCO - Three East Bay residents were indicted for their respective roles in an alleged conspiracy to commit wire fraud announced United States Attorney Brian J. Stretch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent in Charge John F. Bennett, and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Special Agent in Charge Michael T. Batdorf.
By DOL Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate health committee, issued the following statement on President Trump’s comments seeking to undermine and damage our health care system by withholding payments to insurers...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MICHAELLE MARTINEZ, age 39, of Marrero, pled guilty today to Theft of Government Funds.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A DeSoto, Texas resident pleaded guilty today to aiding and assisting in the preparation of a false tax return, announced Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division and U.S. Attorney John R. Parker for the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that RAMON MONROIG, also known as “Ray Rock," 40, of Danbury, was sentenced today by Chief U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall in New Haven to 78 months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for drug and firearm offenses.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Brian Burgess, age 41, from Kingstree was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Florence, South Carolina, for Possession of a Stolen Firearm in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(j). United States District Judge R. Bryan Harwell of Florence sentenced Burgess to 108 months imprisonment followed by three years of supervised released.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Philadelphia - Cory D. Foster, 29, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced today by United States District Court Judge Mark A. Kearney to a total of 714 months (59.5 years) in prison for three armed robberies of convenience stores and an armed carjacking. In May 2016, a jury convicted Foster of robbing at...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Detroit Podiatrist Charged for Role in $13.9 Million Medicare Fraud Scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Earlier this month, Vaughn Paul James, 24, of Sanders, Ariz., was sentenced by Senior U.S. District Judge Susan R. Bolton to 300 months of imprisonment, to be followed by five years of supervised release. James had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder-aid and abet. James’s co-defendant, Nolan Lewis, 30, of Kykotsmovi, Ariz., had also previously pleaded guilty to the same crime and received the same sentence.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Montanez Adams, 22, and Robert Holmes, 19, both of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania were charged today by Indictment[1] with one count of Hobbs Act robbery, one count of using, carrying, and brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence, and aiding and abetting, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The charges arise from an armed robbery of a GameStop store located at 4600 Roosevelt Boulevard in Philadelphia, PA on or about January 7, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Juan Roman-Polanco, age 31, of Avoca, Pennsylvania, Myrna Echevarria-Jiminez, age 44, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Luis Enrique Martinez Ortiz, age 25, Nathaniel Murphy, age 41, both of Wilkes-Barre...
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: AIKEN, S.C. - Employees at the Savannah River Site developed a safe, efficient fix to a tricky problem that long impacted sampling tanks storing plutonium solutions.
By DOE Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: CARLSBAD, N.M. - EM's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is once again receiving shipments of transuranic (TRU) waste from around the DOE complex. A shipment from the Department’s Idaho Site arrived in the early morning on April 8, marking an important milestone for the facility.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Westerville, Ohio, man was indicted by a federal grand jury today for his alleged role in a June 2016 armed robbery of a retail store in Orange, New Jersey, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Pecos District announces that it is seeking public nominations for four positions on its Resource Advisory Council (RAC), which advises the BLM on public land issues within the Pecos District. As advertised in the Federal Register, the BLM will consider nominations until May 30, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 13, 2017
News Release: Defendant will be Subject to Deportation Proceedings after a 51 Month Prison Sentence.
