News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Cowey Edsitty, 32, of Albuquerque, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court to 115 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - An Illinois attorney has been indicted by a federal grand jury for fraudulently obtaining loans related to the purchase, maintenance and sale of properties on Chicago’s South Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Inmate Indicted for Aggravated Assault of Corrections Officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Fort Smith, Arkansas - Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, announced that Mohammed Abed Joudeh, II age 28, of Fort Smith, was sentenced today to 100 months in federal prison to run concurrent with any undischarged state sentence followed by three years of supervised...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - The owners of two local drug wholesale companies were among four defendants taken into custody this morning on federal “structuring" charges that allege they made millions of dollars in cash deposits designed to circumvent federal reporting requirements.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Two Cleveland women were indicted on charges of conspiracy to make false claims for fraudulently claiming false tax refunds for more than $300,000, said David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and Frank S. Turner II, Acting Special Agent in Charge, IRS Criminal Investigation, Cincinnati Field Office.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Birmingham man and three-time convicted felon to 10 years in prison on a gun charged related to the 2015 pistol-whipping of a Birmingham police detective that left the officer unconscious and seriously injured, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Special Agent in Charge Steven L. Gerido.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Steve Butler of the Southern District of Alabama announced today that Jasmine Hansell and her mother, Gunilla Marshall, pleaded guilty before Senior U.S. District Judge Callie V. S. Granade to one count of conspiring to embezzle funds from the Poarch Band of Creek Indians in Atmore, Alabama. Sentencing is scheduled for July 12, 2017.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) sent a letter today to the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) Acting Director Michael D. Nedd expressing his deep disappointment in the agency’s plans to prioritize leasing and permitting for oil, gas, and coal above all other uses on America’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that MARVIN ANTONIO GARCIA-PINOTT, age 30, a citizen of Honduras, was sentenced today after having previously pled guilty to reentry of a deported alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Javier Madrid, 29, of Roswell, N.M., was sentenced today in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to 41 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for violating the federal narcotics trafficking and firearms laws.
By State Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and co-chair of the Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism, today made the following statement on White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s comments regarding Hitler’s use of chemical weapons during the Holocaust...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: PORTLAND, Ore. - On Wednesday, April 12, 2017, U.S. District Court Judge Michael H. Simon sentenced Lawrence G. Owen, 75, to 30 months in federal prison. The sentence immediately followed Owen’s guilty plea for promoting prostitution at ten Portland-area strip clubs and adult video stores and for conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) by concealing $2.6 million in income and evading $728,000 in income taxes owed.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - Two men from a north suburb of Chicago were arrested today on a federal complaint charging them with conspiring to provide material support to the Islamic State.
By Interior Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: RAPIC CITY, S.D. -- The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking assistance from the public with information regarding recent vandalism incidents at Belle Fourche Reservoir. In March, 2017, Reclamation and the South Dakota Game Fish and Parks discovered several incidents of vandalism near the Off Road Vehicle Use Area on the northeast side of Belle Fourche Reservoir.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Business Partner with Ties to the Bonanno Organized Crime Family Admits to Conspiring to Alter Records Subpoenaed by the Grand Jury and Evading Taxes.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - An East Orange, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 26 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy to file false federal income tax returns on behalf of inmates at the Essex County Correctional Facility, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - On April 12, 2017, James Perin, age 66, and Mardeen Perin, age 63, heather Jean Reekrof West Des Moines, Iowa, appeared before Chief United States Judge James A. Jarvey and were sentenced to tax fraud charges arising out of their operation of Sully's Pub in 2013, announced Kevin E. VanderSchel.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that the Third Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the 70-month prison sentence imposed by U.S. District Court Judge Malachy E. Mannion on Treiu Thuy Duong, age 38, who supplied approximately 10 kilograms of alpha-pvp-commonly known as “bath salts"-to customers in northeastern Pennsylvania and elsewhere during 2013-2014.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 12, 2017
News Release: Wisconsin Department of Health Services Agrees to Pay Nearly $7 Million to Resolve Alleged False Claims for SNAP Funds.
