News from February 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: PRESS RELEASE. Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that the building commissioner for the City of Muncie, Indiana, has been indicted on charges of wire fraud, theft, and money laundering. The arrest is part of a year-long and on-going investigation by the United States...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of Butler, Pennsylvania, has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Pittsburgh on a charge of embezzling from a federally insured bank, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. -- John W. Vaudreuil, United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Mark E. Johnson, 50, a farmer in Dresser, Wis., was sentenced Monday, Feb. 13, by U.S. District Judge James D. Peterson for false statements in a matter in the jurisdiction of the Federal...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Indianapolis - United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that Andre Jermaine Maxey, 18, Indianapolis, pleaded guilty to six counts of interference with commerce by threats of violence and one count of possession of a firearm during a violent crime. He was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Sarah Evans Barker to 157 months (over 13 years) of imprisonment and was ordered to pay over $23,000 in restitution. He was a juvenile when the offenses were committed.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: MARQUETTE, MICHIGAN -Acting U.S. Attorney Andrew Birge announced today that Brooke Ferns (formerly Brooke Vernier), age 30, of Marquette, was sentenced to 18 months in prison followed by two years of supervised for conspiring to commit bank fraud. Chief U.S. District Judge Robert Jonker also ordered Vernier to pay $1,780,232.10 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - Following a six-day trial, a jury found a husband guilty of voluntary manslaughter in his wife’s death at their home on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada. The man is a member of the Fort McDermitt Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of Nevada and Oregon and his wife was a member of the Te-Moak Tribe of the Western Shoshone.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: A Swansea man has been charged in a federal criminal complaint with possessing a firearm as a convicted felon. Today, the U.S. District Court in East St. Louis ordered, Eric L. Eiskant, 33, detained without bond pending indictment. The alleged violation took place on Jan. 20, 2017, in connection with...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Yasir Mehmood, 45, of Sacramento, was sentenced on Tuesday by U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez to four years and six months in prison for bank fraud and aggravated identity theft, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Poverty and lack of opportunity have consequences, not just for individuals and their families, but also for their communities. Seventy percent of homicides in Chicago occur in just twenty neighborhoods. The poverty rate in these 20 neighborhoods is more than twice as high as the poverty rate nationally and unemployment is six times higher.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: U.S. Attorney Kenneth A. Polite announced that JUAN SALAMANCA-CHAVEZ, age 32, a native of Mexico, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal entry of a removed alien, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1326(a).
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: WICHITA, KAN. - A Missouri man has been arrested and charged with robbing a bank in Osage City, Kan., U.S. Attorney Tom Beall said today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: RENO, Nev. - A California woman pleaded guilty today to making counterfeit $100 bills and spending the money at businesses in Northern Nevada, announced U.S. Attorney Daniel G. Bogden for the District of Nevada. She faces the statutory maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Sentencing is scheduled for June 5, 2017, before U.S. District Judge Miranda M. Du.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has paid $14.9 million to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act when it knowingly misclassified certain costs, resulting in inflated overhead rates paid to SNC pursuant to various government contracts, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - John Nealy Holt, 44, of Houston, was sentenced to 174 months in federal prison today by U.S. District Judge Thad Heartfield. Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent in Charge Joseph M. Arabit, Houston Division and Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston jointly announced the sentencing action today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Two men were convicted yesterday for their roles in three armed robberies of Dollar General stores in Detroit, U.S. Attorney Barbara L. McQuade announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Boston - David Daoud Wright, a/k/a Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, a/k/a Dawud Sharif Abdul Khaliq, 26, of Everett, Mass., was charged today in a five-count second superseding indictment. This indictment added one additional obstruction of justice count in connection with Wright’s deletion of data on his laptop computer on June 2, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Following a three-day trial before U.S. District Judge David C. Godbey, a federal jury has convicted Martavious Detrel Banks Keys, 33, on felony child sex trafficking offenses, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: LOS ANGELES - A South Los Angeles man has pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud and wire fraud charges for his role in a lottery scam that targeted elderly victims with false promises of large cash prizes and cars that would be delivered when victims paid taxes, fees or insurance.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: SHERMAN, Texas - A 63-year-old The Colony, Texas man has been sentenced to federal prison for child pornography violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 15, 2017
News Release: Two Garfield Heights men were indicted on charges that they used a firearm to rob the Key Bank on Turney Road, said Carole S. Rendon, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio, and FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony.
