News from December 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - Following a three-day trial before the Honorable J. Ronnie Greer, U.S. District Judge, a jury convicted Michael J.W. Potter, 36, of Kingsport, Tennessee, of conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Orlando, Florida - U.S. District Judge Carlos E. Mendoza today sentenced former Florida House of Representatives member Dwayne L. Taylor (50, Daytona Beach) to 13 months in federal prison for wire fraud. The Court also ordered him to pay $62,834.55 in restitution and to serve 18 months of supervised release.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - Acting United States Attorney W. Stephen Muldrow announces that a federal jury has found Kyle Adam Kirby (37, Live Oak) guilty of producing, attempting to produce, possessing, and accessing child pornography. He faces a minimum mandatory penalty of 15 years, up to 120 years, in...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A company that repaired railcars at a Terminal Island facility has pleaded guilty to a federal environmental offense of dumping parts into the ocean to conceal that it was performing unnecessary and improper repairs for several railcar operators.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that four previously deported aliens were indicted separately on December 6, 2017, by a federal grand jury for illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Romanian Man Sentenced for Role in International Fraud Scheme Involving Online Marketplace Websites.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: A former financial analyst at Amazon.com, Inc., was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Seattle to 6 months in prison, a $2500 fine and two years of supervised release for securities fraud involving insider trading, announced U.S. Attorney Annette L. Hayes. BRETT D. KENNEDY, 27, currently of Blaine...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - Two U.S. defendants are in custody on allegations of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion, as well as visa fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez.
By Interior Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Auburn, NY - On Sunday, Dec. 10, from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Harriet Tubman National Historical Park will host “A North Star Holiday Tradition" program as part of the city of Auburn’s annual Holiday Traditions Celebration.
By Commerce Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Tiny pores at a cell’s entryway act as miniature bouncers, letting in some electrically charged atoms-ions-but blocking others. Operating as exquisitely sensitive filters, these “ion channels" play a critical role in biological functions such as muscle contraction and the firing of brain cells. To rapidly...
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: John H. Durham, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that FRANKLIN OMAR RODRIGUEZ, 36, a citizen of Honduras last residing in Norwalk, pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of reentry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that, on Dec. 6, 2017, a federal jury in Juneau convicted Zerisenay Gebregiorgis, 35, a Washington resident, of conspiracy to distribute and to possess with the intent to distribute heroin and methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - John T. Fitzgerald, a former vice president of the Washington, D.C. office of an investment banking firm, pled guilty today to federal charges stemming from a scheme in which he allegedly accepted kickbacks for construction management contracts he steered to another firm, as well as other allegedly fraudulent activities.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that RONY NOE DIAZ-MAZARIEGOS, age 27, a citizen of Guatemala, pled guilty yesterday to a one-count Bill of Information charging him with Illegal use of a Social Security Number.
By Homeland Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - A North Texas woman was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 60 years in federal prison and a lifetime of supervised release for producing child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Tennessee Staffing Company Operator Convicted of Employment Tax Fraud.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Paul Smith, of Wayne, Pennsylvania, was charged yesterday by Information with mail fraud and securities fraud, announced United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. These charges arise from the defendant’s operation of “the Haverford Group," which the defendant promoted as a stock investment club, but which was actually a Ponzi scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Four people from Florida are scheduled to appear next week in court after being indicted by a federal grand jury in Wheeling on December 5, 2017, on fraud charges, United States Attorney Bill Powell announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Larry Westby swindled friends and acquaintances out of nearly $1 million.
By DOJ Newswire | Dec 8, 2017
News Release: Alleged to have sold large quantities of methamphetamine in Indiana and Kentucky.
