News from June 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Shellby Leeanna Moore, 30, of Sacramento, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Morrison C. England Jr. to four years and two months in prison for aggravated identity theft and possession of methamphetamine, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: ALBUQUERQUE - Moises Eufelio Martinez, Jr., 43, of Grants, N.M., pled guilty this morning in federal court in Las Cruces, N.M., to a methamphetamine trafficking charge.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: COEUR D'ALENE - Six co-conspirators of the Loren Toelle drug trafficking organization were sentenced Tuesday and Wednesday to prison on drug trafficking and money laundering charges, Acting U.S. Attorney Rafael Gonzalez announced. The sentences were part of a significant drug investigation and prosecution...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A pain management doctor who owned and operated a group of pain management clinics within the Western District of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to accepting kickbacks in connection with a clinical drug testing referral scheme operated by Universal Oral Fluid Labs (UOFL), of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: NEWARK, N.J. - A Lyndhurst, New Jersey, man was sentenced today to 46 months in prison for fraudulently obtaining over $1.5 million from approximately 100 victims prior to high-profile initial public offerings (IPOs), Acting U.S. Attorney William E. Fitzpatrick announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - The U.S. Attorney’s Office today charged a former Alabama legislator with accepting bribes from a Birmingham lawyer and an Alabama coal company executive in exchange for advocating their employers’ opposition to EPA actions in North Birmingham, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, FBI Special Agent in Charge Roger Stanton and Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation, Acting Special Agent in Charge James E. Dorsey.
By Homeland Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: ATLANTA - Eleven individuals were charged Wednesday with laundering more than $40 million in drug proceeds back to Mexico through Atlanta-area money remitters following a three-year criminal investigation led by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the IRS.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: RALEIGH - The United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of North Carolina announced that in federal court in New Bern, N.C., United States District Judge Louise W. Flanagan presiding, a jury found ELTON WAYNE WALSTON, from Wilson, North Carolina, guilty of one count of distribution of...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: WHEELING, WEST VIRGINIA - Two Bridgeport, Ohio residents were arrested today after being indicted on drug charges by a federal grand jury in Wheeling on June 6, 2017, Acting United States Attorney Betsy Steinfeld Jividen announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: A man who received child pornography was sentenced June 20, 2017 to 15 years in federal prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: HOUSTON - The former CEO of Chase Power Development has been ordered to federal prison following his guilty plea to conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Abe Martinez. John David Upchurch, 54, of Spring, pleaded guilty Jan. 6, 2017.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: This week, federal and state authorities arrested 14 members of the Orrantia Drug Trafficking Organization, including ringleader Mario Armando Orrantia, on federal drug trafficking charges announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr. and Special Agent in Charge Will Glaspy, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: BOSTON, Mass. - Michael J. Ferguson Special Agent in Charge of the DEA’s New England Division and Acting United States Attorney William D. Weinreb announced that Jorge Vega, 42, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. to 77 months in prison and three years of supervised release. In January 2017, Vega pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess with the intent to distribute and distribution of heroin and fentanyl.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), ranking member on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, joined Democrats on the Senate floor to blast Republicans for the secretive process in which they crafted their cruel Trumpcare plan and slammed Senate Republicans...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: PITTSBURGH - United States District Court Judge Reggie B. Walton found Anthony Pryor and Lance Yarbough guilty of one count each of Conspiracy to Distribute Heroin, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: COLUMBUS, Ohio - Cheryl McGrath, 49, of Guysville, Ohio, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court to health care fraud and willful failure to pay over tax.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A pain management doctor who owned and operated a group of pain management clinics within the Western District of Pennsylvania, pleaded guilty in federal court to accepting kickbacks in connection with a clinical drug testing referral scheme operated by Universal Oral Fluid Labs (UOFL), of Greensburg, Pennsylvania, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Joon H. Kim, the Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, James J. Hunt, Special Agent in Charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s New York Division (“DEA"), James P. O’Neill, the Commissioner of the New York City Police Department (“NYPD"), and Scott J. Lampert...
By DOJ Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Donald S. Boyce, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that a St. Clair County woman was indicted on June 20, 2017 for an arson offense.
By DOL Newswire | Jun 22, 2017
News Release: Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), chairwoman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, and Rep. Glenn “GT" Thompson (R-PA) issued the following statements upon House passage of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (H.R. 2353 ) this afternoon...
