News from March 2017
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - U.S. Attorney Jill Westmoreland Rose announced today that Carlos Antoine Benson and Jacob Ivan Hill were sentenced to life in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney, in connection with the 2014 armed robbery, kidnapping and murder of a Charlotte man. Benson was ordered to serve two consecutive life sentences, and both defendants were ordered to pay $6,750 as restitution.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputy pled guilty today, before United States District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks, to providing personally identifying information to another individual who used that information in an identity theft scheme.
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON-Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today gave the following remarks on fighting tuberculosis at a Management Sciences for Health event on Capitol Hill. The remarks come just one day before World Tuberculosis Day...
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, today issued the following statement on the Trump Administration’s decision to appoint Roger Severino, Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS):
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: SHREVEPORT, La. - Acting U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook announced today that a Shreveport man was sentenced to 57 months in prison for illegally possessing two pistols after being convicted of a felony.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Blair County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Acting U.S. Attorney Duane A. Evans announced that LUIS GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ-RUIZ, age 33, a citizen of Honduras, pled guilty today to a one-count Indictment charging him with illegal re-entry of a removed alien.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: In El Paso this morning, 30-year-old Emmanuel Velasco Gurrola was sentenced to life in federal prison for his role in a murder-for-hire plot announced United States Attorney Richard L. Durbin, Jr., Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Special Agent in Charge Waldemar Rodriguez, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Special Agent in Charge Will R. Glaspy, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Douglas E. Lindquist.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: MAR 23 - Boston, Mass - A California man pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a large-scale marijuana distribution and money laundering ring operating between California and the East Coast.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: BIRMINGHAM - A Pelham man pleaded guilty today in federal court to charges related to distribution of anabolic steroids, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Robert O. Posey, U.S. Postal Inspector in Charge Adrian Gonzalez, and Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Secretary Stan Stabler.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Anchorage, Alaska - Acting U.S. Attorney Bryan Schroder announced today that a federal grand jury in Anchorage indicted John Pearl Smith II, age 30, of Palmer, for the murders of Wasilla residents Ben Gross and Crystal Denardi on June 5, 2016. If convicted, Smith faces either life in prison or the federal death penalty.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: JOHNSTOWN, Pa. - A Blair County resident pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge of possession of child pornography, Acting United States Attorney Soo C. Song announced today.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: A physician licensed in Puerto Rico, who was practicing medicine in Miami, was charged in a 16-count indictment unsealed today for his alleged participation in a multi-faceted $20 million health care fraud scheme involving the submission of false and fraudulent claims to Medicare and Medicaid and the illegal distribution of oxycodone and other controlled substances.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: (Washington, D.C.) - Today, on the seventh anniversary of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) being signed into law, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate health committee, took to the Senate floor to call on Republican leaders to drop the harmful House Republican Trumpcare bill that would...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Dorian Dent Williams, 25, Kernersville, N.C., was sentenced late yesterday to 100 months in prison on conspiracy to distribute marijuana through the U.S. mail and postal robbery charges, announced Jill Westmoreland Rose, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina. In addition to the prison term, Chief U.S. District Judge Frank D. Whitney ordered Williams to serve three years under court supervision after he is released from prison.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Acting United States Attorney Robert C. Stuart announced that on March 23, 2017, United States District Judge John M. Gerrard sentenced Alan Ostrander, 45 years old of Omaha, Nebraska, to five years’ probation following his guilty pleas to criminal charges of wire fraud and willful failure to file tax...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: An osteopathic doctor pled guilty for his participation in a multi-million dollar health care fraud and money laundering scheme that involved the filing of fraudulent insurance claim forms and defrauded health care benefit programs.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: St. Thomas, USVI - Nilda Morton, 32, of St. Thomas, was sentenced today to 97 months in prison, followed by five years of supervised release for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, Acting United States Attorney Joycelyn Hewlett announced. District Court Judge Curtis V. Gomez also ordered Morton to pay a $700 special assessment and - perform 400 hours of community service.
By State Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Bob Casey (D-Pa.) today led a group of more than a dozen senators in introducing bipartisan legislation to hold Iran accountable. The legislation, cosponsored by ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 23, 2017
News Release: Settlement requires companies to pay fines and payments totaling over $7 million.
