News from January 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Defendant is One of 104 Individuals Federally Charged as a Result of ATF-Led.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - U.S. Attorney Karen L. Loeffler announced today that Darren Byler, 56, resident of Zachar Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska, was sentenced on Monday by U.S. District Judge Sharon L. Gleason to five years’ probation and a fine of $10,000, for violating the Refuse Act and making false statements to Coast Guard officials.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Six of 19 defendants to be sentenced in a gang-related racketeering and murder case received their sentences this week in U.S. District Court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that BRITTANY ESPOSITO, 28, of Wallingford, was sentenced today by Senior U.S. District Judge Alfred V. Covello in Hartford to six months of imprisonment, followed by three years of supervised release, for distributing heroin. Judge Covello also ordered ESPOSITO to pay a $1,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - A 44-year-old Corpus Christi man has been sentenced to federal prison for possessing child pornography, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. Jason Michael Ehret, an active duty Marine Corps major serving as an aviation flight instructor, pleaded guilty Nov. 15, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - The final defendant charged in a $13 million Medicare and Medicaid health care fraud case has been found guilty on all eight counts as charged, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted Dr. Faiz Ahmed, 64, of Houston, today following a six-day trial and approximately five hours of deliberations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 33-year-old Dallas man has been sentenced to federal prison for burglarizing a bank in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: A man who produced child pornography pled guilty today in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - A Chicago man has been sentenced to five years in prison for fraudulent overbilling an estimated $4.7 million to Illinois’ Medicaid program for non-emergency medical transport. Gregory D. Toran, 68, of Hazel Crest, Ill., was also ordered to pay $4.7 million in restitution. U.S. District...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - The final defendant charged in a $13 million Medicare and Medicaid health care fraud case has been found guilty on all eight counts as charged, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A federal jury convicted Dr. Faiz Ahmed, 64, of Houston, today following a six-day trial and approximately five hours of deliberations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - A 24 year-old Houston man has been found guilty for the armed robbery of a Capital One Bank and for using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson. A Houston federal jury convicted Trent Davis today following two days of trial and approximately an hour of deliberation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Sedalia, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing a firearm.
By Homeland Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, had this to say following an executive order from President Trump Wednesday...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: DENVER - Allen LeRoy Simons, III, age 36, of El Paso County was sentenced on Jan. 25, 2017 by U.S. District Court Judge William J. Martinez to serve 204 months (17 years) in federal prison for possession of child pornography, followed by 30 years on supervised release, Acting U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON -Two owners of psychological services companies, one of whom was a clinical psychologist, were convicted yesterday for their involvement in a $25.2 million Medicare fraud scheme carried out through eight companies at nursing homes in four states in the Southeastern United States.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Council Bluffs, IA - On Jan. 25, 2017, John F. Thomsenheather Jean Reekr, a 47-year-old resident of Missouri Valley, Iowa, was sentenced by Chief United States District Court Judge John A. Jarvey to 235 months in prison for coersion and enticement of a minor for sex and for transporting a minor with...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Jerome Paul Frostman, 47, of Hampton, was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for receipt of child pornography.
By DOL Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: DENVER, CO - The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has cited four employers - Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Energes Services LLC, Dominguez Welding LLC, and Unlimited Services LLC - for exposing employees to health and safety hazards at an oil and gas tank...
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Jerome Paul Frostman, 47, of Hampton, was sentenced today to 16 years in prison for receipt of child pornography.
By DOJ Newswire | Jan 25, 2017
News Release: Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and Patricia Tarasca, the Special Agent-in-Charge of the New York Region for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Office of Inspector General (“FDIC-OIG"), announced the unsealing today of an indictment charging ISSAK...
