News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Weymouth man was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for possessing assault-style weapons and ammunition.
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: CLEVELAND - A former Bosnian Serb military officer was deported July 27, by officers with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Cleveland, after being convicted of two counts of possession of immigration documents procured by fraud. The man failed to disclose his military service in a unit that is implicated in assisting in the persecution and genocide in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in July 1995.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: On July 12, 2017, Austin K. Sims was indicted for three charges relating to the unlawful sale of firearms, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, Donald S. Boyce, announced today. After a detention hearing held on July 26, 2017, the federal district court in Benton ordered that Sims be held without bond pending trial.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y.- Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that LaTanya Notice, 42, of Mount Vernon, NY, who was convicted of making false statements to federal officers, was sentenced to one year probation by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: SCRANTON - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Joseph Andershonis, age 58, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced on July 26, 2017, by United States District Court Judge Richard Conaboy to serve 6 months’ imprisonment and 6 months’ home-confinement for failing to pay his company’s employment taxes. Judge Conaboy also ordered Andershonis to pay $212,508 in restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that four vendors to the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board have entered non-prosecution agreements with the government requiring the payment of over $9 million in monetary penalties for their involvement in previously providing things of value to officials at the PA-LCB.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Tampa, FL - U.S. District Judge James S. Moody, Jr. has sentenced Cordera Hill (27, Tampa) to 24 months in federal prison for conspiracy and offering to pay and paying illegal kickbacks in connection with a federal health care benefit program. The Court also ordered Hill to forfeit more than $43,830.70, the proceeds traceable to his criminal conduct.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: DES MOINES, IA - A Des Moines area tax preparer was convicted of preparing and presenting false tax returns, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft following a three-day jury trial, announced United States Attorney Kevin E. VanderSchel. On July 26, 2017, a jury found Lony Tap Gatwas, 48, of Ames...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Eastside Loco Salvatrucha (ESLS) clique in Chelsea was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for RICO conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A member of MS-13’s Eastside Loco Salvatrucha (ESLS) clique in Chelsea was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for RICO conspiracy and conspiracy to distribute cocaine.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that WILLIAM T. WALTERS, a/k/a “Billy," was sentenced to five years in prison for conspiring to commit insider trading from at least 2008 through 2014, principally relating to securities of Dean Foods Company (“Dean Foods" or the “Company").
By Interior Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: TUPELO, MS - In celebration of the National Park Service’s 101st birthday on Aug. 25, 2017, the Natchez Trace Parkway will host a month-long exhibit featuring artwork and pledges made by local Boys and Girls Club Members during a weeklong Every Kid in a Park Environmental Camp at the Parkway. The exhibit...
By Homeland Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: (WASHINGTON) - The House Committee on Homeland Security rejected a Resolution of Inquiry (H.Res. 447) sponsored by Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ) that would have directed the Department of Homeland Security to provide all information related to payments it made for Trump Organization or Trump family travel in furtherance of Trump Organization business.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Two Ohio men were indicted on federal firearms charges, said Acting U.S. Attorney David A. Sierleja.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: TRENTON, N.J. - A Monmouth Beach, New Jersey, man will appear in federal court today to face allegations that he robbed an Investors Bank in Navesink, New Jersey, on July 20, 2017, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: WILKES-BARRE-The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that James King, age 49, of Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 14 years in prison by Senior U.S. District Court Judge A. Richard Caputo, for trafficking heroin during September 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: COEUR D’ALENE - Julianna Park, 53, of Post Falls, Idaho, pleaded guilty yesterday to theft from a tribal organization, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez. Parker was indicted by a federal grand jury in Coeur d’Alene on July 20, 2016.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Sean Patrick Oswell, age 52, of Greer, South Carolina was sentenced today in federal court in Greenville, South Carolina, for Production of Child Pornography, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2251. United States District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: BOSTON - A Brockton man was indicted yesterday in federal court in Boston on a federal firearms charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 27, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Duane A. Evans announced that SAUL RODRIGUEZ-AVILES, age 47, was charged today in a one-count Indictment for illegal reentry of a removed alien previously convicted of an aggravated felony.
