News from August 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A federal judge today sentenced William Merriweather Jr. to life in prison for robbing a Bessemer Bank in 2007 and intentionally shooting four tellers, killing two and seriously wounding the others, during the crime, announced acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey and FBI Special Agent in Charge Johnnie Sharp.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced that Michael A. Liberty, 56, of Windermere, Florida was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: MANHATTAN, NY - James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Field (DEA), Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police (NYPD), announced today the...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A federal grand jury in Dallas returned an indictment yesterday charging five violent north Texas men with multiple charges related to violent robberies that occurred in north Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: Defendant used the identities of thousands of Oregon and Washington taxpayers to file false income tax returns.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: COUNCIL BLUFFS, IA - On August 9, 2017, Ronald Lance Hulme, 55, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Rebecca Goodgame Ebinger to 110 months in prison for distribution of methamphetamine, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. Hulme will serve five years of supervised release following his imprisonment.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Garndell Jerome Macon, Jr., 32, from Charleston, South Carolina, was convicted in federal court on two felon in possession of a firearm counts after a two-day trial before United States District Court Judge David Norton. He faces a potential twenty-year sentence in federal prison.
By DOL Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: Dear Secretary DeVos and Dr. Johnson...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man who was sentenced in 2007 in connection with a scheme to defraud women over telephone dating services and in 2015 for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for traveling to launder money in connection with a similar scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: KNOXVILLE, Tenn. - On August 8, 2017, Henry M. Love, II, 51, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced by the Honorable Thomas A. Varlan, Chief U.S. District Judge, to serve seven months in federal prison followed by six months home detention for his convictions involving wire fraud, false claims and a false statement against his former employer, the Department of Energy (DOE). Love was also ordered to pay $40,111.95 in restitution to the DOE.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - An Atlantic County, New Jersey, man who was sentenced in 2007 in connection with a scheme to defraud women over telephone dating services and in 2015 for violating the conditions of his federal supervised release was sentenced today to 60 months in prison for traveling to launder money in connection with a similar scheme, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, KAN. - A former civilian hospital employee was convicted today on federal charges of attacking a woman who he set on fire and attacked with a straight razor, U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Gregory G. Brooker today announced the sentencing of WALLACE DAVID GREGERSON, 66, to 42 months in prison for embezzling more than $755,000 from his employees’ pension plans. GREGERSON, who pleaded guilty on March 6, 2017, to one count of mail fraud, was sentenced today before United States District Judge Joan N. Ericksen in Minneapolis, Minn.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on charges of violating federal narcotics and firearms laws, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy C. Lynch, who handled the case, in May 2011, Fijal, a local bank employee, conspired with others to burn down a duplex at 179 Mackinaw Street, which is located in Buffalo's Old First Ward neighborhood. The defendant withdrew money from a local bank for the purpose of paying an accomplice to burn the building and paying the accomplice both before and after the fire on May 22, 2011.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Bree Lynn Coonsis, 25, a member and resident of Zuni Pueblo, N.M., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to a voluntary manslaughter charge. Coonsis entered the guilty plea under a plea agreement that recommends that she be sentenced to an eight-year term of imprisonment followed by a term of supervised release to be determined by the court.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Deirdre M. Daly, ATF Special Agent in Charge Mickey D. Leadingham and New Haven Police Chief Anthony Campbell today announced that a long-term investigation into numerous shooting incidents in New Haven has resulted in federal racketeering, attempted murder, firearm and narcotics trafficking offenses against alleged members and associates of a local New Haven street gang.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: Ocala, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that Susan Marie Kort (61, Ocala) today pleaded guilty to an indictment charging her with theft of government funds. She faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and will be required to pay $35,577.60 in restitution to the Social Security Administration (SSA). A sentencing date has not yet been set.
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: Portland, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy and Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, announced that Michael A. Liberty, 56, of Windermere, Florida was sentenced today in U.S. District Court by Judge D. Brock Hornby to...
By DOJ Newswire | Aug 9, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that KEVIN WILTSHIRE was sentenced today in White Plains federal court to a prison term of 30 years and one day for crimes committed as part of a Yonkers-based street gang, “Cruddy 650," including the murder...
