News from July 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: SYRACUSE, NEW YORK - A jury voted today to convict Andrew Raymond and Brian Requena, both of Los Angeles, on drug trafficking and money laundering charges related to their operation of a nationwide synthetic drug trafficking ring.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: PHILADELPHIA - A federal indictment1 was unsealed today charging former Mayor Vaughn Spencer, 70, of Reading, for alleged violations of federal public corruption laws, announced Acting United States Attorney Louis D. Lappen. The indictment charges Spencer with 9 counts of bribery, 1 count of honest services...
By DOL Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Facing defeat after defeat on each of their plans to rip apart the health care system, today Senate Republican leaders seemed poised to try and pass any bill in order to go to conference with House Republicans, empowering extreme conservatives to join with President Trump and get...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Two More Members of ATM Skimming Conspiracy Plead Guilty to Scheme Targeting Multiple New Jersey Bank Locations.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - A former Wholesale Banking Relationship Support Manager of a Charlotte area bank appeared in court today and admitted to stealing more than $216,889 from his employer, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. Mark Isaac Coffino, 38, of Huntersville, N.C. pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement by a bank employee before U.S. Magistrate Judge David C. Keesler.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that JASON NATHANIEL DAUGHERTY, age 31, of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, pled guilty to FELON IN POSSESSION OF FIREARM AND AMMUNITION, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Sections 922(g)(1) and 924(a)(2), punishable by not more than 10 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: BUFFALO, N.Y. - Acting U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. and Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General Stuart M. Goldberg of the Justice Department’s Tax Division announced today that David Menzies, 51, of Floral Park, NY, who was convicted of tax fraud, was sentenced to 24 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. Vilardo. The defendant was also ordered to pay $280,930 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Two men who sold heroin and fentanyl that killed a Dubuque man in April 2016, and another man who sold heroin and illegally possessed a firearm were sentenced yesterday to federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Oklahoma announced that SHAWN JUSTIN FISCHER, age 36, of Durant, Oklahoma, pled guilty to DELAY OR DESTRUCTION OF MAIL BY POSTAL EMPLOYEE, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1703, punishable by not more than 5 years imprisonment, and up to a $250,000.00 fine or both.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Brandon, South Dakota, man convicted of transfer of obscene material was sentenced on Monday, July 24, 2017, by U.S. District Judge Karen E. Schrier.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that two previously deported aliens were indicted separately today by a federal grand jury with illegal re-entry into the United States by a previously deported alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced that Ronnie Parente, Jr., 35, was sentenced Tuesday, July 25, 2017, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois to 144 months in federal prison, ten years of supervised release, and...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: GREENEVILLE, Tenn. - On July 25, 2017, three additional individuals were sentenced by the Honorable R. Leon Jordan, U.S. District Judge, for their roles in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy centered in and around the Morristown, Tennessee area. Misty Munsey- Killian, 38, of Whitesburg, Tennessee...
By State Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - Today, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-CA) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-NY) and Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere Chairman Jeff Duncan (R-SC) and Ranking Member Albio Sires (D-NJ) issued the following statement after the administration’s announcement of sanctions on individuals associated with the proposed creation of a constituent assembly to rewrite the Venezuelan constitution...
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that DAVID NIKOLASHVILI, 52, a citizen of the Republic of Georgia residing in Stamford, pleaded guilty today in Hartford federal court to engaging in an immigration fraud scheme.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: United States Attorney Randolph J. Seiler announced that a Rapid City, South Dakota, man has been indicted by a federal grand jury for Failure to Register as a Sex Offender.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: CAMDEN, N.J. - A Gloucester County, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 114 months in prison for being a previously convicted felon in possession of a weapon, Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - A former employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) based in Afghanistan pleaded guilty today to soliciting approximately $320,000 in bribes from Afghan contractors in return for his assistance in U.S. government contracts.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: Columbia, South Carolina ---- United States Attorney Beth Drake stated today that Crystal Lynn Norris, age 27, of Florence, SC, pled guilty in federal court in Florence, to Conspiracy to Manufacture and Pass Forged and Counterfeited Securities, a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371.
By DOJ Newswire | Jul 26, 2017
News Release: DAYTON, Ohio - Mollie Parsons, 47, of Middletown, Ohio, was sentenced in U.S. District Court to 36 months in prison for healthcare fraud related to the death of a severely physically disabled minor.
