News from April 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Haywood Bernard Hall, 35, of Cedar Hill, Texas, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn to serve 24 months in federal prison for making a false statement under penalty of perjury in a filing in a bankruptcy document, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas. Judge Lynn ordered Hall to surrender to the Bureau of Prisons on June 20, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: New York Return Preparer Pleads Guilty to Filing Fraudulent Tax Returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: Court Sentences Final of Nine-Defendant Kalamazoo Heroin Investigation to 15 Years' Imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges today sentenced Kurt Michael Adams (29, Louisiana) to four years in federal prison for mailing threatening communications. He pleaded guilty on February 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: PHOENIX - Today, Arlin Hatathlie, 35, of Tuba City, Ariz., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Paul G. Rosenblatt to 37 months’ imprisonment. Hatathlie had previously pleaded guilty to two counts of assault resulting in serious bodily injury.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Senior U.S. District Judge Wm. Terrell Hodges today sentenced Kurt Michael Adams (29, Louisiana) to four years in federal prison for mailing threatening communications. He pleaded guilty on February 9, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Three defendants were sentenced today to federal prison for their roles in a California-to-West Virginia methamphetamine conspiracy, announced United States Attorney Carol Casto. The defendants sentenced today previously pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute more than 50 grams...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - Tyler Moorehead, of Keyser, West Virginia, was convicted today in federal court distributing heroin, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA - A Davisville, West Virginia woman was convicted today of bank robberies spanning three states, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen, announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - William Laurence Stanley, 53, a self-proclaimed black hat search engine optimizer and reputation manager, was found guilty yesterday following a five-day trial before U.S. District Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater for retaliating against a victim for providing truthful information to law enforcement about Stanley’s prior commission of a federal offense, that being extortion, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. -Three men from New Jersey and another from Nevada have been arrested for allegedly defrauding two individual victims out of approximately $800,000 through an advance fee scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 34-year-old Dallas man has pleaded guilty to fraud in connection with a Denton County highway expansion project in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: Ohio Man Pleads Guilty to Soliciting Murder of U.S. Military Members.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - The deadline for individuals to file their tax returns passed yesterday. Most will breathe a sigh of relief that their tax returns were filed on time. However, some may encounter an unexpected impediment - an unscrupulous return preparer who took advantage of them, or their identity was stolen and a tax refund has already been claimed in their name by a thief.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of DONALD GIBSON, 61, to 33 months in prison for tax evasion and for presenting a fake financial instrument to the U.S. Department of Treasury. GIBSON was convicted on Dec. 2, 2016, following a five-day jury trial before U.S. District Judge Patrick J. Schiltz in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: SANTA ANA, California - A former resident of Orange County who now lives in northern San Diego County has been sentenced to 102 months in federal prison for tax evasion and charges related to his attempt to flee in 2013 on the eve of a trial on the tax charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a former business owner pleaded guilty in federal court today to providing false information in order to receive a $1.45 million loan, and to failing to pay employment taxes for the now-defunct business.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury today found Cordera Hill (27, Tampa) guilty of one count of conspiracy and two counts of offering to pay and paying illegal kickbacks in connection with a federal health care benefit program. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison on each count. A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: Bipartisan, bicameral Judiciary Committee leaders today reaffirmed their commitment to reform the troubled EB-5 investor visa program ahead of its scheduled expiration on April 28, or to let the flawed program expire if reforms are not possible. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and ...
By DOJ Newswire | Apr 19, 2017
News Release: Madison, Wis. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Curtis E. Powell, 35, Madison, Wis., was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge William M. Conley to concurrent 87-month prison terms for distributing heroin and for possessing heroin with the intent to distribute. Powell pled guilty to these charges on Feb. 14, 2017.
