News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: INDIANAPOLIS -United States Attorney Josh J. Minkler announced today that an Indianapolis man has been sentenced after pleading guilty to 22 counts related to recent robberies in the Indianapolis area. Donnell E. Gilder, 23, was sentenced to 420 months (35 years) by U. S. District Chief Judge Jane Magnus-Stinson for his role in robbing a Marsh Grocery store and 10 Speedway gas stations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Defendant faces up to 10 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Rohan Chopra, 22, of Amherst, NY, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute, and to distribute, MDMA, also known as “Molly," before U.S. District Judge Elizabeth A. Wolford. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $1,000,000 fine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: DALLAS - Alexis C. Norman, 46, of Midlothian, Texas has been indicted on felony offenses stemming from a health care fraud conspiracy she ran from prison that involved the submission of more than $810,000 in false claims to Medicaid, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: The Agriculture bill’s insufficient allocation results in consequential reductions for food aid, and underfunding CFTC’s enforcement of consumer financial protections.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that NATALIE LEVINE, 33, of Scottsdale, Arizona, waived her right to be indicted and pleaded guilty today before U.S. District Judge Michael P. Shea in Hartford to one count of engaging in a kickback scheme that defrauded federal healthcare programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: MADISON, WIS. - Jeffrey M. Anderson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, announced today the unsealing of an indictment that charges Tony R. Compton, 27, Ashland, Wis., with drug and gun crimes. The indictment was returned by a federal grand jury on June 22, and was unsealed following Compton’s arrest.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANTHONY DELOSANGELES, a/k/a “Taco," was sentenced today to over eight years in prison for selling heroin, some of which substantially contributed to the overdose death of one of DELOSANGELES’s customers.
By DOE Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Director William Bradford of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs recently had the opportunity to host the winning students, parents, and mentors of the Second Annual Energy Challenge for American Indian and Alaska Native Youth. Hosted by the U.S. Department of the...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that a federal jury in Scranton returned a verdict yesterday for life imprisonment for Jessie Con-Ui, age 40, a federal inmate, for the first-degree murder of U.S. Correctional Officer Eric Williams. Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo scheduled the formal imposition of the life sentence for Oct. 12, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Mallinckrodt LLC, a pharmaceutical manufacturer and one of the largest manufacturers of generic oxycodone, agreed to pay $35 million to settle allegations that it violated certain provisions of the Controlled Substances (CSA) that are subject to civil penalties, Attorney General Jeff Sessions of the Justice Department and Acting Administrator Chuck Rosenberg of the DEA announced today.
By Interior Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - In order to meet requirements set by legislation passed by Congress in December 2016, the price of the America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Senior Pass will increase from $10 to $80. The change will take effect Aug. 28, 2017. Pass holders are given lifetime...
By State Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Washington, D.C. - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) issued the following statement after meeting with Youssef Chahed, the Head of Government of the Republic of Tunisia...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that ANTHONY DELOSANGELES, a/k/a “Taco," was sentenced today to over eight years in prison for selling heroin, some of which substantially contributed to the overdose death of one of DELOSANGELES’s customers.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Robert Ellis Waddey, 22, of Nashville, Tenn., pleaded guilty on Friday to communicating a threat by interstate commerce, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Jack Smith of the Middle District of Tennessee. Waddey was indicted by a federal grand jury in February of this year and was also charged with being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of firearms.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) will convene a hearing on Tuesday, July 18, 2017, to consider the nomination of David J. Kautter to serve as U.S. Treasury Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy. The hearing will take place at 11 a.m. in Room 215 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: Bangor, Maine: Acting United States Attorney Richard W. Murphy announced that Presiliano Gonzalez Berruete, 53, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court by Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. to one year and a day in prison to be followed by one year of supervised release for being an alien who entered the United States after having been removed and deported. He pleaded guilty on March 10, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: CINCINNATI - Enson Trading LLC, which does business as Eternal Food Service, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to failing to file required IRS forms for cash transactions exceeding $10,000, and to violating Federal Motor Carrier Safety regulations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: ERIE, Pa. - A resident of Warren, Ohio has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Erie on a charge of providing contraband in prison, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 11, 2017
News Release: BEAUMONT, Texas - A 51-year-old federal inmate has pleaded guilty to assaulting a prison guard in the Eastern District of Texas, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Brit Featherston today.
