News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - Two Rockland County, New York, men were sentenced to prison today for their roles in the December 2015 robbery of a North Jersey bar and the violent carjacking and kidnapping that took place shortly afterwards, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: VICTORIA, Texas - A 42-year-old former resident of Goliad has admitted to posing as a nurse, announced acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. Leticia Gallarzo pleaded guilty to five counts of making false statements relating to health care today in federal court.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: CHICAGO - A former benefits authorizer at the Social Security Administration in Chicago was sentenced today to five years in federal prison for authorizing more than $1.9 million in fraudulent benefits.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - -Troy Derby, Assistant Special Agent-in-(ASAC) of DEA’s Kansas City District Office, announced today that on July 5, 2017, two men were indicted in a $7 million dollar marijuana conspiracy spanning from California to Missouri. Zachary Scott (a.k.a. “Tuna"), 35, of Los Angeles, California, ...
By Interior Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Yesterday morning, a 40-year-old woman from Tennessee fell into the St. Vrain River approximately one mile from the Wild Basin trailhead. She slipped on wet rocks and was swept 150 yards downstream before she was able to pull herself up on a rock and log. Rocky Mountain National Park Search and Rescue members were on scene at 10:30. Members of Estes Valley Fire Protection District - Dive and Swiftwater Rescue Team played a critical role in this rescue operation.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: A Bloomfield man was indicted in federal court for selling drugs that resulted in the death of an Ashtabula County woman last year, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: In San Antonio this afternoon, a federal judge sentenced both 38-year-old Jessica Rivas Alva and her husband, 40-year-old Eric Jon Alva, to six months in federal prison for defrauding undocumented immigrants and their family members out of money by falsely claiming to work on behalf of two San Antonio attorneys, announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Shane Folden.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 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 returned on May 11 by a grand jury sitting in Madison, which charges Marcos Castaneda, 37, of Pomona, California, with conspiring to distribute methamphetamine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: A former Audi manager has been charged via criminal complaint for his role in the long-running conspiracy to defraud U.S. regulators and customers by implementing software specifically designed to cheat U.S. emissions tests in thousands of Audi “clean diesel" vehicles.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Michael Stathas, 33, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 84 months in prison for robbing two banks in Montgomery County in December 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: DAYTON - Michael Stathas, 33, of Dayton, was sentenced in U.S. District Court today to 84 months in prison for robbing two banks in Montgomery County in December 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tom Larson, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for mailing death threats to three federal judges.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Compassionate Care Hospice Group, Inc., (“CCH Group") has agreed to pay $2.4 million to resolve allegations that CCH Group and its subsidiary Compassionate Care Hospice of Atlanta, LLC, (“CCH Atlanta") submitted or caused the submission of false claims to Medicare and Medicaid by engaging in...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - A resident of New Derry, Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of mail fraud, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging LUIGI JAQUEZ, KARILIE HERRERA, a/k/a “Choco," a/k/a “Choco Black," and SACHA SANTIAGO with the June 24, 2008, murder of Maximiliano Campusano, 33.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI"), announced the unsealing of a federal indictment charging LUIGI JAQUEZ, KARILIE HERRERA, a/k/a “Choco," a/k/a “Choco Black," and SACHA SANTIAGO with the June 24, 2008, murder of Maximiliano Campusano, 33.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Michael Nakai, 33, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation who resides in Red Rock, Ariz., pled guilty today in federal court in Albuquerque, N.M., to assaulting a federal officer.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - A federal grand jury has charged E. Stanley Hoff, 68, of Westerville with one count of threatening to assault and murder a United States official, a crime punishable by up to ten years in prison.
By Commerce Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, the House passed the Accelerating Individuals into the Workforce Act (H.R. 2842) - introduced by Ways and Means Committee Members Carlos Curbelo (R-FL) and Danny Davis (D-IL) - to help low-income Americans transition from welfare to work. It encourages employer-led partnerships with state and local agencies to hire Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients and provide on-the-job experience, including apprenticeships.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 6, 2017
News Release: Memphis, TN - The "Gangster Disciples" Chief of Security involved in the violent shooting that occurred at Hillview Apartments was sentenced to 263 months in federal prison. Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, announced the sentence today.
