News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. -A Newport News man pleaded guilty today to two counts of production of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Former Owner of Hong Kong Lounge Restaurants Failed to Pay Employee Overtime Wages and Lied to the Department of Labor After Being Caught.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Kristian G. Afana, also known as Leonard M. Ovono, 36, of Columbus, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 12 months and one day in prison for running a fake passport scheme.
By Commerce Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: Washington. D.C. - At today’s 10:00 a.m. hearing in the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee on H.R. 1731, the RECLAIM Act, Reps. Alan Lowenthal (D-Calif.), Donald McEachin (D-Va.) and Don Beyer (D-Va.) will deliver a letter to Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) calling for...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - John Stuart Bruce, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina, announces that a federal grand jury in Raleigh has returned indictments charging VICTOR DIAZ-HERNANDEZ, age 46, of Mexico, OSMAN MAURICIO GOMEZ-MARTINEZ, age 19, of Honduras, JUAN CARLOS GUTIERREZ, age 51...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Hyannis man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with trafficking heroin and suboxone with Denzel Chisholm and the “Nauti-Block" gang.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Neither President Donald Trump nor his Administration should make any Russia policy changes, according to a resolution introduced Wednesday by Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15), the Ranking Member of the CIA Subcommittee of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and Rep. Eliot Engel (NY-16), Ranking Member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.-Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Richard D’Arcy, Jr., 37, of Lancaster, NY, pleaded guilty to theft of mail by a postal employee before U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today delivered the following remarks on legislation he introduced with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA). The resolution would urge the Trump Administration not to make any policy changes that would benefit Russia’s...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA, P.A. - C. Tate George, former NBA basketball player and the CEO of purported real estate development firm The George Group, today lost his appeal of the nine-year prison sentence he received for his role in orchestrating a $2 million real estate investment Ponzi scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Adam C. Shryock, age 37, of Castle Rock, Colorado, pled guilty before U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Michael J. Watanabe to willful failure to file a tax return, announced acting United States Attorney Bob Troyer and IRS-Criminal Investigation Denver Field Office Special Agent in Charge Steven Osborne. Shryock was charged by Information in Denver, Colorado on October 6, 2016. Shryock is scheduled to be sentenced by Magistrate Judge Watanabe on June 27, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Joseph Kurowski, 24, of Cheektowaga, NY, who pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography, was sentenced to 30 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - William Colbert, 38, of Albuquerque, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court to bank robbery charges. Under the terms of his plea agreement, Colbert will be sentenced within the range of 41 to 51 months in federal prison followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks on foreign aid budget cuts on the House floor...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: FRESNO, Calif. - Tremayne Beard, 34, of Fresno, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill to nine years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI- Jashawn Bailey, 30, of St. Thomas pleaded guilty today in federal court to possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced. District Judge Curtis V. Gomez remanded Bailey into the custody of the United States Marshals Service pending his sentencing on August 8, 2017.
By State Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Tim Kaine (D-Va.) introduced a Senate resolution Wednesday condemning Bashar al-Assad and his regime for their continued use of chemical weapons against the Syrian people.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Hoeub Chan, 35, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of smuggling narcotics into jail, was sentenced to 18 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: A federal grand jury returned a one-count indictment charging Oscar Curtis Robinson, 38, of Tallmadge, with possession with the intent to distribute fentanyl, David A. Sierleja, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 5, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 35-year-old Cypress man has been handed a significant federal prison term for production, distribution and possession of child pornography, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
